Who Should Mediate

  • Parties establishing the ground rules for a new relationship.  Examples are: pre-nuptial agreements, partnership roles and responsibilities, contract negotiations; etc.
  • Parties wishing to avoid the potential emotional and physiological exhausting litigation process.
  • Parties wishing to retain a working relationship with each other.
  • Parties who want to retain control over the dispute resolution process.
  • Businesses wishing to avoid the day-to-day distractions associated with an ongoing, drawn out, litigation process.
  • Parties who want their interests to be heard and acknowledged.
  • Parties seeking confidentiality while resolving their dispute.
  • A party needing a quicker and less expensive alternative to resolving their dispute than litigation typically offers.
  • Parties who want a compromise solution rather than the win / lose environment of litigation.