Penn Law Mediation Clinic

About This Office

The Mediation Clinic focuses on developing students' skills and addresses the role and ethical issues in the mediation function. Mediation involves the intervention of a neutral third party into an existing or threatened dispute, with the aim of facilitating a negotiated resolution of the conflict. Lawyers are increasingly immersed in this arena, both as mediators and as traditional representatives of clients whose matters are subject to a mediation resolution. It is also a subject of great interest to transactional lawyers. Mediations are in the areas of civil litigation, criminal, child custody disputes and campus disciplinary matters.