Choosing a family business mediation firm is a very important decision. It has a critical impact on the way you and your family solve your problems both now, and in the future. The right firm will help you move forward with your decision making, succession planning, family, and business. Alternative Law’s Mediation saves you time and money and will cost about 50% less than maintaining ongoing destructive personal and professional simmering family feuds or hiring lawyers. It eliminates the dramas of family infighting or of courtroom battles where no one truly wins. Otherwise, only the fighters, lawyers or the legal system win.
The Right Firm Will Eliminate Collateral Damage
The frustrating realities of continued conflicts waste time, energy and money and gets more challenging every day. The personal and professional destruction, significant expense, and emotional toll it takes on a business, family, is an unnecessary and exhausting fact of life. It also negatively affects many of your personal and professional relationships. Significant collateral damage to your family, partner, friends, co-workers, finances, and business often occurs, but you can reduce or even eliminate it.
Use this checklist When Choosing A Family Business Mediation Firm
- Education and Training : Does your mediator have a mediation degree? Or just trainings and another professional degree instead?
- Family Business: Are they actually a family business themselves? What extensive experiences do they have, to practically understand the complexities and issues?
- Locations: Do they have local offices or will they go to your office with NO travel charges?
- Experience : How long have they been mediating? Is it their part-time or full-time occupation?
- Certifications : Are they government-approved to assure quality training, protection and quality?
- References : Who is on their reference list?
- Guarantee : Do they offer a money-back guarantee? If not, why not?
- Commitment : Have you or others interacted with and are you compatible with the mediator?
Family Business Mediation is Confidential
The conventional approach is to battle it out, or hire lawyers, or do nothing. Some people do not want to air their dirty laundry, so they keep fighting until they have hurt or destroyed their closest relationships. Mediation processes stop the damage and are completely confidential so the information does not get out. In fact, the law protects confidentiality.
While old beliefs are changing, old-fashioned approaches are very common. But they are the most costly ways to solve personal, professional and family disputes. It is usually unproductive and destructive for the families to continue arguing in these time wasting conflicts. It undermines both the family and business.- Most importantly, it is just unnecessary.
Choosing the Right Family Business Mediation Firm Will Improve Your Business & Family Life
Mediation programs make the family systems work to improve not just your business structure, but also your interactions in your life and your family. Together, you should identify, address, and resolve the existing tensions and frustrations by creating a specific action plan tailored to your family. There is no one size fits all. While some very rare cases need to go to court, almost all cases fit the options of mediation programs. While some opt to hire lawyers, less than 10% of cases reach trial, consuming substantial time, energy, and costs for all parties involved.
Alternative Law Family Business Mediation Steps
Start Early
First, early mediation should come first as it saves time and money. The earlier, the better. Or in the alternative, you can always use our programs any time in your conflict, with your family and relationships at stake. Time is crucial, but our neutrals can help you make adjustments. We can also save any bad turns into additional resentments, family breakups or any other costly legal processes, unless you want a judge or a jury in their alleged ‘infinite wisdom’ to decide on its own what’s good or right for you or your family.
Develop the Best Ideas and Make them Work
Next, in our mediation programs, you get to practical solutions quickly. Together, we develop and decide what are the best ideas about your situation. With our neutral experts, you have a substantial impact and direct input on how to resolve your issues, with techniques and guidance. We help make the Best Ideas Work. Family Business Mediation matters for the families and individuals involved on very personal and professional levels.
Make Clear and Effective Alternatives
Third, you have clear and effective alternatives to the continual frustration of the interpersonal battles, with family friends or coworkers, or even lawyers. Alternative Law actively insures success through conflict management, effective structured resolutions, and peacemaking techniques. Our mediation services have time-tested and proven systematic step by step approaches.
Structured Programs and Solutions
Fourth, our structured programs define our family business mediation practices.They are less time consuming, expensive and destructive than constantly fighting it out behind the scenes in your family or worse in court. Utilizing our programs and solutions, we resolve your conflicts in the most timely, comprehensive, and professional manner, guaranteed.
Result-Oriented Programs
Fifth, while our results-oriented program you are an integral part of deciding the outcome with highly trained neutrals. Mediation offers you additional protection and avoids the adversarial routes of fighting with your family or resorting to costly court battles with lawyers when frustrated or unhappy with your situation.
Solid Plans get Solid Results
Lastly, Alternative Law’s mediation services actively empower your family business with quality choices. How to direct or redirect your business, better address issues, and truly resolve your conflicts. Using our industry leading ‘best ideas win’ method, we help develop the best options to achieve real and lasting resolutions.
Alternative Law Family Business Mediation Firm: Next Steps
The next step towards a workable practical resolution, is a phone call, or email or just fill out the form below. After a confidential discussion with a mediator we will contact other parties and have a will conversation about the issues. Next, there may be an initial in-person mediation session. There is no obligation. After the first session, if necessary, there can be more group or private, or one-on-one sessions or telephone conferences, with our family business mediators. We guarantee your satisfaction. If you are unsatisfied for any reason, you have no further obligation. Alternative Law does settle most of its cases, 92%, and provides the industry-leading money-back guarantee.
Family Business Mediation is Our Area of Expertise
We use mediation services in all types of family business cases, which is our special area of expertise. Alternative Law’s mediation programs actively provide tailored business and personal solutions, working collaboratively with you and for your family’s benefit. The choices and consequences are yours. Our goal is to work with you to reduce conflict, create plans and develop a better future. Together, we develop sound alternatives let your best ideas win.
If you’re interested, learn more about our family business dispute resolution and consulting services today and fill out the contact form below—there’s no obligation.