- Legal_Issues - Microsoft and mediation negotiations - Microsoft and mediation negotiations By: Steve Since its antitrust trial began in 1998, the software giant Microsoft and the government have met in negotiations three times; now, a fourth round of mediation has been scheduled, these to be presided over by Richard Posner, the chief judge for the 7th U.S. Circut Court of Appeals in Chicago. Although the two sides differ in opinion on many key issues, …showed first 75 words of 1170 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1170 total…on how best to achieve it. Such a conflict of interest lends itself to the compromise model , in which the establishment of guilt is not at issue and also where the two parties involved in a dispute look forward to a relationship with each other in the future. The compromise model stresses compromise and agreement which is best achieved not through the formal court system, but through informal means of dispute resolution such as mediation.