Workstream 06 · Session write up
The session ends. The write up should too.
Your notes become a structured first draft of the session record in minutes, in neutral language and your own style. Discrepancies against the documents on file are flagged for you to check. The Memorandum of Understanding and Open Financial Statement build as the case goes, from information already captured.
Music: “Life of Riley” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Before and after
Five things that stop happening.
Each one came from a practising family mediator describing what took her evenings.
TODAY
The session ends at five. The write up finishes at eight.
Drafted in minutes
A structured first draft of the session record from your notes, for you to review, amend and approve.
TODAY
A figure in your notes does not match the statement on file, and nobody notices until the OFS.
Discrepancies flagged
Where your notes and the documents received disagree, the difference is flagged for you to check and correct.
TODAY
Every record written from scratch, in whatever register the evening allows.
Neutral, in your voice
Drafts use impartial wording and adapt to how you write. You stay the author.
TODAY
Records sent in English to clients who read it as a second language.
Sent in their language
When you send a record to a party, it can go in their own language. Your file stays in English.
TODAY
Trawling back through the file to type the disclosed documents into the OFS by hand.
MOU and OFS as you go
The Memorandum of Understanding and Open Financial Statement build from what the case has already captured, with disclosed documents listed automatically, for you to finish.
5pm → 5:20pm
In Ashlie’s practice, a session that ends at five used to mean a record finished at eight. With a first draft from her notes, she is reviewing it by twenty past. Her experience, on her own cases; your practice will differ.
Every draft is a draft. The mediator reviews, edits and approves before anything is sent. Nothing is issued without your approval, and every action on the case is logged and exportable, including for a Legal Aid Agency audit.
Book a walkthrough
Your time belongs in the room, not behind a desk.
See the write up on a fictional case that looks like yours, from session notes to a draft in minutes. A 45 minute walkthrough with a real person. Nothing to install and no obligation.