Couldn’t have said it better myself.

From the Long Beach Post (via Marvin Schuldiner’s Sanns Mediation blog) comes the following comment on mediation:

During my tenure as a lawyer, I found the mediation process to be more effective and rewarding than the litigation process. It gave the litigating parties a sense that they were “having their day in court” without the drawbacks of actually being in court.

This is one of the main reasons I became a mediator. Mediation provides the parties the only real chance to fully and meaningfully participate in the litigation process.