Reasonable notice: Don’t waste your first offer in mediation | Stuart Rudner

By Stuart Rudner (November 14, 2023, 2:26 PM EST) -- The assessment of reasonable notice at common law is an art and not a science, but there is a reasonable range in every case and it behooves counsel to adopt a reasonable and defensible approach. There is no reason for every mediation, or every negotiation, to start with the plaintiff demanding 30 months of notice and the defendant asserting that the minimum amounts required by employment standards legislation are “reasonable in the circumstances.”...