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Perspective

May 2, 2015

Proposed rules embrace mediation

Proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are an edorsement of mediation. By Benjamin S. Seigel


By Benjamin S. Seigel


Proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were approved by the Judicial
Conference of the United Sates last September. Those amended rules were adopted by
the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday and are now before Congress; they will be effective
Dec. 1, 2015, unless there is legislation adopted to reject, modify or defer them.
These proposed changes effectively are an en...

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