This case probably stands for less than it may seem, but this offhand comment, lowering the demand from $ 3 million to $ 1.5 million, outside of the hearing of the mediator, is fodder for discovery.

"Los Angeles attorney William Wimsatt learned that lesson Monday when L.A.’s Second District Court of Appeal refused to throw out a legal malpractice suit against him and his firm by ruling that an off-the-cuff settlement conversation wasn’t protected by mediation confidentiality. "