My role as a mediator is to help attorneys and clients resolve disputes by exploring alternatives, decreasing barriers to settlement and testing the utility of possible solutions. I design a process for each mediation to assist attorneys in the analysis of legal issues and clients in the analysis of business issues. The process starts with pre-mediation conference calls to discuss logistics and format and ends with a written summary of agreed terms. During the mediation I engage the parties, as well as their attorneys, in discussions about the dispute and solutions both in joint session and in caucus. Mediation is a flexible process for facilitating hard bargaining or for finding creative solutions and I will use techniques to facilitate either or both depending on the nature of the dispute and the goals of the parties.
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