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I have recently a highly contentious, USD 20 million, family property dispute with litigation commenced in various jurisdictions. I adopted the same approach which you advocate. I told the parties at the onset that I would act more as a facilitator of dialogue between the parties then as a mediator with lawyers around. I steered both myself and the parties away from litigation and legal mindset and made sure that the parties knew that I was not going to involve myself in who is right or wrong. In essence at the very beginning I also made it very clear ...