In a recent newsletter, I noted that as the calendar year was drawing to an end, we were also at the beginning of the holiday season. Many people around the world happened to be celebrating special days or periods that shared a common feature -...
It’s been said that necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. In March 2020, the emerging COVID-19 pandemic made it imperative for much of the world to stay home when at all possible – whether we wanted to or not. If mediators desired to continue...
I would like to tell you that 100% of the matters which we mediate are resolved at mediation. This would be an overstatement to be sure. While a substantial majority of matters brought to mediation resolve on the day of the mediation, there is an...
Cooper Mediation is pleased to announce that Toronto-based mediator Vance Cooper has been inducted to the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (CADN). Vance was welcomed to the CADN following a peer-vote review and completion of due diligence client interviews. CADN is an...
Cooper Mediation hopes all of our friends, clients and colleagues are staying safe and healthy. We are all striving to find some sense of normalcy in these trying and challenging times. Cooper Mediation Inc. will continue to conduct mediations by way of videoconferencing and teleconferencing until...