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Resolve Family Business Disputes Without Costly Court Battles.
Is your family business succession planning leading to conflict? Alternative Law provides expert mediation services to help families navigate ownership, leadership, and financial disputes. We facilitate compromise to save your business, your money, and your family relationships.
Alternative Law helps family businesses resolve succession disputes without costly court battles. Our mediators create compromise to protect your legacy and family relationships. Schedule a consultation today.
The High Cost of Family Business Conflict
Financial Drain
Court battles can consume 5-10% of your business's value in legal fees alone, draining resources that should support your legacy.
Family Relationships Damaged
Litigation turns siblings and relatives into adversaries, often causing permanent rifts that never heal.
Business Paralysis
While you fight, your business suffers. Leadership vacuums, stalled decisions, and declining value become the new normal.
Public Exposure
Court records are public, exposing your family's private conflicts and business secrets to competitors and the community.
A Better Way: Family Business Mediation
Mediation provides a structured, collaborative process where a neutral facilitator helps your family find common ground and create custom solutions that work for everyone.
Benefits
Cost-Effective
Save tens or hundreds of thousands compared to litigation costs. Fixed-fee sessions provide predictable pricing.
Time Efficient
Resolve disputes in weeks or months, not years. Get back to focusing on your business, not fighting about it.
100% Confidential
Keep family matters private. Nothing discussed in mediation becomes public record.
Preserves Relationships
Collaborative process focuses on understanding and compromise, not winning and losing.
You Control the Outcome
Your family designs the solution, not a judge who doesn't understand your business or relationships.
Creative Solutions
Develop custom arrangements courts could never order—phased buy-outs, specialized roles, and unique ownership structures.
Our Family Business Mediation Services
Succession Planning & Transition Mediation
Navigate leadership transfer, ownership transition, and management changes without family conflict.
Ownership & Equity Dispute Resolution
Resolve conflicts over shares, valuation, dividends, and ownership rights among family members.
Sibling Rivalry in Business
Address competition, perceived favoritism, and leadership conflicts between siblings in the business.
Conflict Resolution for Family-Owned Companies
Manage disagreements between founders, next-generation leaders, and non-family executives.
Business Divorce & Partnership Dissolutions
Structure graceful exits and separations that preserve relationships and business value.
Governance & Family Council Development
Create structures for decision-making and communication that prevent future conflicts.
Serving Family Businesses Across Our Region
As experienced business mediators, we help family-owned companies throughout the Boston find peaceful resolutions to succession and ownership disputes. Whether you're in Chicago, Los Angeles, or New York, we're here to help protect your legacy.
Service Areas
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Our Proven Mediation Process
1. Confidential Assessment
We meet with all parties individually to understand perspectives and concerns in a safe, private setting.
2. Joint Session Facilitation
We guide structured conversations focused on interests, not positions, ensuring everyone is heard.
3. Creative Solution Development
We help generate and evaluate options that address everyone's core needs and concerns.
4. Agreement Formalization
We document the consensus in a Memorandum of Understanding for legal formalization.