conciliator-brief-drafterlisted

# Conciliator Brief Drafter ## Purpose Give the neutral enough reliable context to understand the dispute and facilitate productive movement, while keeping exchangeable material separate from confidential caucus information. ## Required inputs Obtain the pleadings or principal claims, contract or relationship documents, key correspondence, chronology, present procedural status, prior offers, party objectives, supplied legal analysis, evidence strengths and gaps, commercial or relational interests, attendees, settlement authority, and session logistics. Ask whether the brief will be exchanged, supplied confidentially to the conciliator, or split into an exchangeable brief and confidential annex. Treat that choice as blocking because it determines what may safely be included. ## Method 1. Define audience, confidentiality status, word or page limit, delivery date, and any process rule governing mediator communications. Put the status conspicuously on the document. 2. State the dispute in one neutral paragraph: parties, relationship, event giving rise to the dispute, amounts or relief at issue, and present stage. 3. Build a sourced chronology. Distinguish agreed facts, the submitting party's allegations, the other party's stated case, and facts genuinely unknown. 4. Organise the merits by issue rather than by document order. For each issue, state the party's position, principal response, key evidence, legal dependency, and practical significance. Verify current legal propo