{"id":27454,"date":"2022-02-17T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27454"},"modified":"2022-02-18T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:58:28","slug":"24-ethics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/24-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics for Neutrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Ethics for Neutrals<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>In the United States, ethical standards for mediators are governed, if at all, by the state in which the mediator engages his or her services.\u00a0 The lack of uniform standards prompted a consortium of the Section on Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) to issue “Model Standards of Conduct” for mediators.\u00a0 These model standards were subsequently supplemented for federal employee mediators in federal mediation proceedings.\u00a0 This supplement, titled “A Guide for Federal Employee Mediators,” was issued by the Federal\u00a0Interagency Alternative Dispute Resolution Working Group\u00a0(IADRWG) Steering Committee on May 9, 2006.\u00a0 Though not binding on agency, the Guide is intended to provide the same level of ethical guidance for federal mediators as exists for state mediators, with reference to additional standards or obligations specific to federal sector administrative dispute resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Some aspects of professional practice that are typically addressed in ethical standards have also been addressed in the ADRA of 1996. \u00a0These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Conflicts of Interest<\/u>: \u00a0The ADRA of 1996 permits a neutral to have “official, financial, or personal” conflicts of interest, but the conflict must be fully disclosed in writing to all parties.\u00a0 The parties may reject the neutral. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ADRA-Codification2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 USC 573(a<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><u>Confidentiality<\/u>: \u00a0The ADRA of 1996 spells out the bounds of confidentiality in significant detail. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ADRA-Codification2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 USC 574(a)<\/a>; <em>see also<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/ch29\/\">Ch.29, Confidentiality<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><u><em>Ex Parte <\/em>Communications in Arbitration<\/u>: \u00a0Communications by one party to an arbitrator that are not provided to the other party are ex parte communications. \u00a0They are prohibited by <a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ADRA-Codification2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 USC 579(d)<\/a> unless the parties agree otherwise. \u00a0Note that this rule does not apply to mediators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27194,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27454\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}