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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3274549, member: 181"] Mediation is a voluntary process that does not decide or impose outcomes. Results are the product of facilitated negotiations that can include elements that are not fixed to legal precedent and can include non-legal components. The statement reads as though Pitino had an interest in retaining some semblance of reputation in the UL community, and having a professiinal standing that could better support future work in his field. The university had an interest in not paying out any additional money. Given the likelihood that both parties know unflattering things about each other, both parties had an interest in keeping things non-disparaging and cinfudential. Pitino's attorney may have been retained under a fee structure that resulted in him having an interest in receiving a percentage of any financial settlement. I suppose all parties could stipulate that the attorney got 100% of the settlement figure. [/QUOTE]