Obermayer (Pennsylvania): Mediating While Socially Distant – My Surprisingly Uneventful Experience in Uncharted Waters

FIRST PUBLISHED ON 04.14.2020 – Most federal courts now require employment discrimination cases to go to mediation at least once before they go to trial. See my recent post on this topic from simpler times: “It’s time to mediate a case with an ex-employee. Now what?” But with the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated social distancing, good old face-to-face mediation has become impossible. MORE.