Resolve Business, Family Business, and Succession Disputes and Plan for the future.
Is your business, partnership, non profit, or family business involved in serious conflict? Alternative Law provides expert mediators who utilize practical, cost effective programs to resolve serious conflicts, measure results, and develop concrete workable plans to deal with issues that may arise in the future.
Successful businesses and lives are built on quality human relationships. We will focus on addressing your core concerns, restoring your personal and professional interactions, and improving difficult communications. This will also have a direct impact on your business productivity, quality of life, and workplace environment.
We have over 30 years of real world mediation and business experience in successfully bringing together the most difficult people and situations. Utilizing our proprietary 'best ideas win' processes we will work with you to address and resolve the fundamental issues and achieve real results.
We work all across America and we guarantee our work.
Our programs will save your company time, money and provide you the freedom to run your company without the constant conflict headaches. You can get back to your business.
Do what you do best.
The High Cost of Business Conflict
Drains Resources and Finances
Unresolved conflicts grind on your people and just get worse. They waste real time, money, energy, and efficiency. They consume you, your people and your business. Conflict undermines teamwork, productivity and erodes attitude and culture. It drains necessary resources that should support your team's growth, profits, and legacy.


Relationships Damaged. Leadership Undermined.

Business Paralysis
When you fight, you, your people, your business, and your family suffer. Everyone is affected, whether they openly talk about it or not. Leadership vacuums are created, decisions are delayed, relationships and cultures deteriorate. Declining personal and professional values become the new normal as people try to work around those in conflict and avoid discussing serious issues.
Public Exposure
Legal fights and court records can become publicized. We all understand that even inter-company feuds have a way of leaking out to all of the wrong audiences. They can expose your business relationships or family's private conflicts to your co-workers, competitors, and the community. Conflict destructively undermines you and your company, leaving everything and everyone unprotected. We have step by step solutions.

The Best Ideas Win: Mediation for Businesses and Family Businesses
Mediation provides structured, collaborative processes where trained and degreed neutral facilitators help your business and family resolve conflicts. We create consensus and develop a common sense plan for the future. We implement custom and individual solutions that work for everyone. Utilizing our nationally acclaimed "Best Ideas Win" mediation program, we have the country's highest conflict resolution rate.
When the federal government had their own specialized internal conflicts, they came to us first. Alternative Law was one of only 2 firms in America selected to run the nation's historic RESOLVE program. We were also the only mediation firm to resolve every single matter in one year.
Benefits
Cost-Effective
Time Efficient
100% Confidential
Preserves Relationships
Every business and every family bring different strengths, weaknesses, and human perspectives to the table. Successful businesses need to find ways to develop and maintain good relationships. When they break down they need to be repaired.
Our collaborative processes focus on flexibility, teamwork, understanding and using the the Best Ideas Win techniques. Everyone has a chance to participate, be heard and create a fair solutions with our help.
You Control the Outcome
You and your business team actively participate with in designing the solutions with Alternative Law. It is not done by a judge who doesn't understand your business or just guesses on his solution and makes you do it.
A highly trained mediator who has over 20+ years of hands-on experience in mediation and business will guide you through a conflict resolution business plan to achieve mediation results.
Creative Solutions
We develop customized solutions for your particular circumstances. Most people directly involved in serious conflict can not implement serious changes.
Management reorganizations, peace strategies, generational transition plans, defined roles and responsibilities, phased buy-outs/buy-ins, and creative management and ownership restructuring require serious consideration often with the help of a neutral third party.
Our Business Mediation Services
Competition & Sibling Rivalry in Business

Conflict Resolution for Family-Owned Companies

Business and Partnership Dissolutions

Governance & Family Council Development

Dispute Resolution, Succession Planning & Transition Mediation

Management, Ownership & Equity Dispute Resolution
Why Choose Alternative Law?
"Best Ideas Win": Our Active Mediation Framework for Mediation Results
Our Three-Part Process:
- Comprehensive Conflict Mapping – We explore all historical dimensions: facts, legal issues, business goals, personal interests and relationships to understand the complete picture. After we understand the past, we focus on the future and outlining the specific steps to insure your success.
- Confidential Interpersonal Engagement – Private confidential sessions at your office or home, at no extra charge to address sensitive matters, ensuring all concerns are both heard without judgment or exposure, and incorporated into a comprehensive resolution process.
- Proactive Legal & Strategic Development – We analyze how personal, professional outcomes and legal interpretations affect potential results and actively develop the most favorable, practical real world solutions.
Why Our Approach Works:
We move beyond the short term feel good approaches or passive mediation. Our team is consists of proactive participants in the process of practical planning and conflict resolution. We continually identify, develop, and refine the possible best ideas win approach. We reach clear, fair and just objective resolutions and implement them.
These strategies and techniques work for your business, partnerships, or your family. It works for the most complex personal and professional conflicts. Power, control, communication, succession and ownership disputes are systematically addressed and resolved and mediation results are achieved.
Results That Matter: 92%+ Success Rate with our 100% Money-Back Guarantee
What Makes Our Settlements Different:
- Consistent values of long-term business planning, professional communication, and business and family cooperation.
- Understanding specific historical facts of your case and how those decisions affect the present circumstances and impact future outcomes.
- Consider all perspectives to develop the best ideas to optimize future results.
- Recommend and implement company reorganizations when necessary.
- Address strategic long term plans, priorities, goals, and mission statements.
- Identify specific issues that are off limits or not discussed because of fear of retaliation or embarrassment. Some are just too difficult to discuss in the present environment.
Serving Family Businesses Across Our Region
Steps
1. Confidential Assessment
We meet with all parties privately and individually to understand their personal and professional perspectives and concerns in a safe, confidential setting.
2. Joint Session Facilitation
We guide structured conversations focused on interests, not positions, ensuring everyone is not only heard, but their best ideas are actually acted on in real time.
3. Creative Solution Development
We will generate and evaluate options and create a succession or business plan that address everyone's core needs and concerns.
Satisfied Clients
Alternative Law: Problem Solvers

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