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What is Elder Mediation?
Elder mediation, like elder law, is defined by the client to be served. Elder mediation is  mediation of any conflict that involves elders, their family members or others in their lives. The first contact with the mediator does not necessarily have to come from the elder involved.
Neither the legal profession nor the public at large has as yet fully recognized the value of elder mediation. A Portland elder law attorney shared his perspective with me that elder mediation is today at the stage of development where elder law was fifteen years ago and private geriatric care management was twenty years ago.
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Second Circuit Won't Allow Non-Signatory to Invoke Arbitration Agreement in Antitrust Lawsuit Against Credit Card Issuers
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a "complete stranger" to an  arbitration agreement, with no contractual relationship to either the signatories or the obligations under the contract, cannot enforce the arbitration agreement under the doctrine of equitable estoppel. In Ross v. American Express Co., Nos. 06-4598-cv(L), 06-4759-cv(XAP), 2008 WL 4630314 (2d Cir. Oct. 21, 2008), Ross filed a putative class action lawsuit alleging that American Express (Amex) and other credit card issuers participated in a conspiracy to fix certain fees charged to cardholders.
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
Chinese Proverb
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Give the Gift of Peacebuilding This Holiday Season
Mediators Beyond Borders appreciate your contribution to help make their mission  possible. Your assistance helps keep their office functioning, pay project expenses, develop training materials, and build the capacity of people around the world to resolve their differences without violence.
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"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle."
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December Mediation News
