Assignment:
Suppose that you are the HR manager for a company. The judge in a current law suit by a former employee has ordered mandatory pre-suit mediation. Your boss is unfamiliar with mediation and she asks you to advise her as to several issues regarding the upcoming mediation. Draft a memo thoroughly discussing, at minimum, the following questions:
1. If my boss, Director of HR has no interest in mediation, does she really have to be at the mediation discussions?
2. Can she send the company attorney instead?
3. If so, are there any conflicts of interest with respect to attorney advocate representation of which she should be aware?