In this next example, a commercial landlord and a tenant have a dispute regarding their lease.

The mediator is Prof. Leonard Riskin, who has been one of the leading figures in the field of alternative dispute resolution over the past few decades. Note Prof. Riskin’s introduction of the process and his process flow:

Alternatively: Go to http://law.missouri.edu/csdr/csdr-videos.html#ytplayer and click on the video entitled “Mediation: The Red Devil Dog Lease”

My thanks to the University of Missouri School of Law’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, for maintaining the collection of videotaped simulations that this film is a part of, and for making it available to the public! Check out the other negotiation and dispute resolution videos they’ve made available at http://law.missouri.edu/csdr/csdr-videos.html#ytplayer and the Center’s website at http://law.missouri.edu/csdr/about.html.