On the California Law Revision Commission’s (CLRC) agenda for December 1, 2017, Agenda Item No. 6, is the “relationship between mediation confidentiality and attorney malpractice and other misconduct.” The CLRC’s June 2017 Tentative Recommendation, essentially to destroy mediation confidentiality without good cause... Read More

On March 8-9, 2018 Ms. Klibanow, as a member of the Labor Relations Community Circle, will participate in co-sponsoring the American Arbitration Association’s National Labor Conference in San Diego, on the theme of “Workplace Challenges & Opportunities in the New Economy –... Read More

On October 6, 2017 2017 the Los Angeles Daily Journal published Ms. Klibanow’s article analyzing the Supreme Court Justices’ oral argument with counsel representing employers, employees and the National Labor Relations Board, in what she alluded to as “a trilogy of cases... Read More

For over a quarter of a century I have visited the Hawaiian Islands and uniformly found Hawaii to be a “gentler” community. Hawaiian “aloha” has infused as well the scores of mediations I have been privileged, as a federal contract mediator, to... Read More