Opening joint sessions in civil case mediations, while understudied, are a key element in the mediation process. Here mediators set the tone of the mediation by delineating the goals of mediation, proffering advice to the disputants, and indicating which strategy they will subsequently use. We...

Several hypotheses suggested by the theoretical literature on burnoutwere empirically tested in an attempt to identify the organizationalconditions associated with employee burnout. Public service lawyers in theU.S. (N = 391) completed a survey designed to assess (a) three components ofburnout,...