If you're about to ink a settlement resulting from a mediation, you and your mediator have all worked tremendously hard to reach an agreement.

Now you want that agreement to be enforceable.

We are therefore providing you with a sample agreement, relevant California case law, and selected articles about the enforcement of mediated settlement agreements.

We provide this information NOT AS LEGAL ADVICE but as a resource for attorneys in crafting their own form term sheets and memoranda of understanding.

You don't need to carry around paper and pen anymore; Judicate West mediator, the Hon. Stuart T. Waldrip (Ret.) suggests that you do what he does -- keep this form on a jump or "flash" drive (I carry one on my keychain) so you can plug it into an available computer & leave the mediation with a fully executed typewritten agreement.

And, by the way, congratulations on closing the deal!