Running a family business is both a professional and emotional journey. On one hand, you’re building something lasting with the people you love and trust most. On the other hand, the same ties that unite you can also make conflict more personal and difficult to manage. Family-owned business mediation can be crucial in resolving disputes before they escalate. Small misunderstandings …
A well-planned succession planning mediation session is one of the most crucial parts of any business’s future. However, it’s also one of the most emotionally charged. Choosing who leads next, dividing shares, and aligning visions can spark tension even in the closest families or strongest partnerships. At Alternative Law, we guide business owners and families through succession planning mediation—a proactive, collaborative process …
Your Family vs. The Courtroom: Choosing the Right Path for Your Business When a conflict over your family business’s future arises, you face a critical choice: how will you resolve it? This often involves choosing between mediation and litigation, leading to the classic debate of mediation vs litigation, two distinct approaches with profound consequences for your finances, your well-being, and …
Is Your Family’s Legacy at Risk? The Hidden Cost of Succession Disputes. For generations, your family business has been more than just a company—it’s a source of pride, identity, and financial security. But when the time comes for succession, this legacy can become a source of conflict. Disagreements over leadership, ownership, and fairness can escalate, threatening to tear the business—and …
Family businesses form the heart of many economies, often spanning generations and contributing significantly to local communities, state productivity and global markets. However, one of the most critical—and sometimes overlooked—elements of a successful family business is succession planning. Without a clear strategy for passing leadership and ownership to the next generation in family business succession planning, family businesses risk failure, …
The recent housing crisis has not been easy on home-owners. Many home-owners have been forced to foreclose. Often, this ends in bankruptcy and taking down large banks with them in the process. Bank of America, Wachovia and US Bank Corp are all large corporations that lost billions in the mortgage crisis. Mediation mitigates housing disputes. But a less-discussed off-shoot of …
Everyone would love to live in a world of peace. Well, almost. But you and I know that it’s not going to happen. Until the time that human beings are the wired the way they are today, they are going to find some reason in some part of the world, to go to war about just something or the other. …
If you are going through a divorce, or seriously considering one, then you need the best people on your side. By best, I don’t mean the ones that will FIGHT it out on your behalf. You need people that are understanding of your specific situation. They must take step by step measures and develop specific plans for you that result …
Sexual harassment is one of the most common forms of employment disputes and has grown in numbers and in media attention that it receives over the past few years. The growing awareness into this area, however, unlike other crimes, has not prevented it from remaining among the top source of distress and dispute at the workplace. Between the year 2000 …
In our line of work, we work on dozens of mediation cases every year. However, like many other professionals, we are not at liberty to discuss our cases in public forums such as this one due to reasons of confidentiality and privacy. When we get questioned about past experiences, we often resort to fabricating names or situations in order to …