“When family members are owners, employees, or related parties, you can double the chances of personal or professional conflicts. With an experienced mediator, you should be able to redirect that energy as a force to better navigate family business conflicts. – Mark Fallon of Alternative Law Balancing personal and professional relationships within a family business can be tricky. Unstructured businesses …
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 …
In the family business mediation world , there are great challenges and a diversity of opinions. We are able to resolve complex family business disputes and provide family members parties with a clear path forward. This direction is especially true in ongoing serious family business conflicts. Using our family business mediation conflict services to help a family business grow and …
Commercial or business mediation helps manage the difficult communication issues that normally develop when business ventures are formed or to help manage ongoing relationships. A new business venture is in fact a new type relationship. Exciting at the start, even more exciting when rewarding, and can turn sour very quickly when conflict develops or losses occur. Existing businesses may …
Mediation is the process whereby two or more parties engaged in a dispute, decide, usually voluntarily, to utilize the services of a neutral third party to help them settle their personal. professional or legal differences to try to reach a fair and just resolution. Read on to learn mediation definitions & mediation techniques. This mediation technique is still one 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. …
In this line or work, there are ups and downs with families and their businesses. Resolving complex disputes makes parties leave better off than when they arrived. Many times with strong sense of relief as there is no feeling better than that. Family Business Mediation stops conflicts. This is especially true in family business feuds. Knowing that our work helps a …
Divorce is stressful; there is almost no way around that. But in some extreme cases, it gets so stressful that incidents of long-term trauma, irreparable relationships, family turmoil or even hospitalization, long-term depression, substance abuse, etc. are not uncommon. When such as serious incident arises, you would hope that there are resources available to make the process easier. Mediation provides …
Parents and teachers both have the same objective – to ensure the best possible education of the student. Their interests are well aligned and their incentives are, to some degree, as well. What I mean by that is, that parents have a natural incentive to see their children do well in school. Teachers have a monetary as well as a …
Alternative Law Mediation Results settlement processes are very engaging and challenging experiences that produce resolution, rewards, and above all results. Mediation results focus resolution. We believe that in successful mediations the more disciplined and creative that you are in designing practical realistic options for settlement, the more productive that you will be. When you have reached that nadir, the most difficult …