{"id":409,"date":"2026-05-05T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=409"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:08:36","slug":"appellate-meditation-aum-not-um","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/05\/05\/appellate-meditation-aum-not-um\/","title":{"rendered":"Appellate Meditation: &#8216;Aum,&#8217; not &#8216;Um&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appellate mediation is widespread and has been a hot topic for ages now. Alternative dispute resolution, or ADR, providers expressly tout their appellate mediation programs (e.g.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrservices.com\/services-2\/appellate\/\">ADR Services<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamsadr.com\/capabilities\/appellate\">JAMS<\/a>). Most California Court of Appeal districts have formal mediation programs: e.g., the 2nd District&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.courts.ca.gov\/district-courts\/2dca\/court-programs\/mediation-program\">Mediation Program<\/a>, the 3rd District&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.courts.ca.gov\/district-courts\/3dca\/court-programs\/mediation-program\">Mediation Program<\/a>, the 4th District&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.courts.ca.gov\/district-courts\/4dca\/court-programs\/civil-mediation-program\">Civil Mediation Program<\/a>, the 5th District&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.courts.ca.gov\/district-courts\/5dca\/court-programs\/mediation-program\">Mediation Program<\/a>, and the 6th District&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/appellate.courts.ca.gov\/district-courts\/6dca\/court-programs\/mediation-program\">Mediation Program<\/a>. So do many federal Courts of Appeals. The 9th Circuit&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/mediation\/\">Mediation Program<\/a>\u00a0has been around for over 30 years and currently has a team of seven Circuit Mediators. Bucking the ubiquitous banal naming convention, the 2nd Circuit may send you to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca2.uscourts.gov\/staff_attorneys\/mediation_faq.html\">CAMP<\/a>\u00a0(its Civil Appeals Mediation Program). The ABA even published a 366-page treatise &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/products\/inv\/book\/276050842\/\">Appellate Mediation: A Guidebook for Attorneys and Mediators<\/a>&#8221; (ABA 2016) by California&#8217;s own Brendon Ishikawa and Dana Curtis (a former 9th Circuit Mediator). Yes, so very much can and has been said about appellate mediation. But what about appellate\u00a0<em>meditation<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full version of this month\u2019s \u201cExceptionally Appealing\u201d column from Partner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/benjaminshatz.html#tab_Biography\">Benjamin G. Shatz&nbsp;<\/a>at the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyjournal.com\/articles\/391176-appellate-meditation-aum-not-um\">Daily Journal<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appellate mediation is widespread and has been a hot topic for ages now. Alternative dispute resolution, or ADR, providers expressly tout their appellate mediation programs (e.g.,\u00a0ADR Services,\u00a0JAMS). Most California Court of Appeal districts have formal mediation programs: e.g., the 2nd District&#8217;s\u00a0Mediation Program, the 3rd District&#8217;s\u00a0Mediation Program, the 4th District&#8217;s\u00a0Civil Mediation Program, the 5th District&#8217;s\u00a0Mediation Program, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2026\/05\/05\/appellate-meditation-aum-not-um\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appellate Meditation: &#8216;Aum,&#8217; not &#8216;Um&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[294],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":294,"user_id":762,"is_guest":0,"slug":"bgshatz","display_name":"Ben Shatz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/03\/shatzbenjamin-100x100.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Shatz","first_name":"Ben","job_title":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/benjaminshatz.html","description":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/benjaminshatz.html\">Read Ben's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}