Mediation

AN INFORMAL PROCESS

If you are having a serious business dispute with a business associate, you should seriously consider an early mediation.

It is often extremely valuable to try this process before the wheels come off, and personalities flare and everyone gets their heels dug in.

This is a very cost effective way to get to a resolution. The process is entirely voluntary, and not coercive. You remain in control of your fate.

Mediation has a very high success rate, which is why courts almost always require a mediation near the end of litigation and prior to trial, when you have already spent tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on the litigation, and still don’t have a result, even after years.

The parties can choose to leave their lawyers at home, and just come to an experienced but impartial third party to briefly present their points of view or air their differences and then allow us, as mediator, to get to the bottom of the dispute, usually in separate rooms so that everyone can be completely candid, and see if there is a way to resolve the issue early, voluntarily and inexpensively.

The advantage of a mediator experienced in litigation, is that he can frankly tell everyone what they are facing. This is good information to have early on, and can save a lot of time, trouble and money.