If you’re a sports fan like me, perhaps you’ve occasionally caught the pre-game show. It can be informative and entertaining, but it really has no bearing on what happens when the game begins. Now imagine a half day mediation. The first two hours of a mediation...

Mediating a complex, multi-party case is a lot like baking a cake. It's not enough to have the right ingredients. You need to observe careful direction and patience to blend the ingredients in the right quantities and at the just the right time to produce...

It gives us great pleasure to announce the next Vancestock Unplugged! The show takes place on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 in the Oak Room of the Cambridge Club [located on the 11th floor of the Richmond Tower in the Sheraton Centre in Downtown, Toronto]. Doors open at...

From beginning to end, taking part in a civil lawsuit can be similar to competing in a grueling marathon. Prior to attending mediation, the parties have likely spent several years in litigation. Throughout this period, they have spent money and expended energy to strengthen their...

If two is company, three is a crowd, and four is a party, what is more than a dozen? The answer, as I recently learned when conducting a multi-party mediation for a complex claim, is that more than a dozen is a challenge (and that...

Cooper Mediation