There’s an old Oliver Wendell Holmes maxim we remember from law school – great cases like hard cases make for bad law. Not to quibble with the venerable Justice Holmes, but in our experience as settlement consultants, we have found that this observation is not so true, at least when it comes to mediation. Great cases and not so great ones both make for good mediations, at least when measured by that all-important yardstick of positive financial outcomes.

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