New mediation case triggers case of lawyer deja vu

I guess it’s a sign of lawyer old age when a new matter triggers a flood of images from some of your old cases. Call it lawyer deja vu. In any event, I mediated a case last week that caused a whole bunch of stuff from the past to bubble up from the subconscious into the conscious part of my brain. The case involved three young men who had grown up together and been friends in high school. They had gone their separate ways after graduation, but came together years later to try their luck at forming a business and launching a product. They had been at it for a couple of years and had yet to taste financial success.