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 …
How Does Family Business Mediation Work? A Step-by-Step Guide
Demystifying the Mediation Process: A Path to Peaceful Transition The decision to use mediation for your family business dispute is a smart one. But we understand that the unknown can be intimidating. You might be wondering, how does family business mediation work? What actually happens in a mediation session? How do you go from conflict to a signed agreement? At …
Is There A Place For Verbal Business Agreements?
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 Definition & Mediation Techniques
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 …
Reasons To Mediate Before Court
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. …
What Do Mediators Look For In Sexual Harassment Cases?
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 …
Why Parent-Teacher Mediation Works For In School Mediations
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 …
The Key To Resolving Employment Disputes Amicably
The majority of us are or have been employees at some organization. We may have agreed to lengthy contracts, rules, and regulations that detail what we can and can’t do at work. We agreed to benefits we receive for our contribution to the company’s business and so on. And, we all just sign those contracts, don’t we? According to leading …
Kleen Energy Explosion Case – Good Mediation Case Study
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 …