{"id":691,"date":"2020-06-10T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=691"},"modified":"2020-06-10T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:37:30","slug":"finra-now-offering-covid-19-reduced-fee-mediation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/06\/10\/finra-now-offering-covid-19-reduced-fee-mediation-program\/","title":{"rendered":"FINRA Now Offering COVID-19 Reduced Fee Mediation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, FINRA\u2019s mediation department has announced a reduced fee remote mediation program available through August 31, 2020. In this program, parties will choose from a randomly generated list of 10 national mediators. The mediator fee is $100 per hour split between the parties, and FINRA mediation filing fees and administrative fees are waived.<\/p>\n<p>FINRA also offers virtual hearing services (via Zoom and teleconference) to parties in all cases by joint agreement of parties and mediator.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about FINRA and the pandemic in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/finra_makes_changes_rules_guidance_due_covid19_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/beware_pitfalls_remote_finra_hearings_0520.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 26<\/a> <em>Alerts<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, FINRA\u2019s mediation department has announced a reduced fee remote mediation program available through August 31, 2020. In this program, parties will choose from a randomly generated list of 10 national mediators. The mediator fee is $100 per hour split between the parties, and FINRA mediation filing fees and administrative &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/06\/10\/finra-now-offering-covid-19-reduced-fee-mediation-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FINRA Now Offering COVID-19 Reduced Fee Mediation Program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[336,866],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-finra","tag-remote-mediation-program"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}