Scott Zucker is a mediator and arbitrator at Miles Mediation & Arbitration in Atlanta. Courtesy photo Are opening statements in mediation beneficial toward reaching a settlement? There is an ongoing ...

After months of contentious pre-trial hearings and a painstaking jury selection process that took 10 days, Karen Read’s second trial begins in earnest with opening statements Tuesday. In criminal ...

The convicted murderer is representing herself in the Arizona trial. The trial began Monday for Lori Daybell, the mother convicted of murdering two of her children in a so-called doomsday plot, who is ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial properly kicked off Monday morning as the jury was sworn in, and the defense and prosecution offered opening statements. The government’s opening statement ...

Prosecutors in the Karen Read case are asking a judge to prohibit her defense from accusing others of causing the death of Read’s boyfriend, John O’Keefe, in their opening statement. Read’s defense ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Opening statements got underway and the prosecution’s star witness took the stand on Thursday in the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell for her alleged role in the attempted murder of ...

The opening statement of the man on trial for attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last September at a Florida golf course was cut short Thursday when the defendant, Ryan Wesley Routh, representing ...

PHOENIX — Opening statements started Thursday morning in Lori Vallow Daybell's second murder conspiracy trial of the year. Sixteen jurors were sworn in for the "Doomsday Mom's" latest murder ...

Are opening statements in mediation beneficial toward reaching a settlement? There is an ongoing debate by both advocates and neutrals concerning the advantages and disadvantages of including opening ...