I bring an independent, neutral and unbiased perspective to the factual, legal and practical complexities of a business dispute.
Working collaboratively with business people and their attorneys, I assist in bringing to conclusion the risk, uncertainty, expense, distraction, and the enormous investment of time and energy required for the daily battle and grind of litigation.
I focus on building trust with clients and counsel. I fully engage client decision makers as the single most important factor in a successful mediation.
For this reason, I prefer in person sessions, which from my experience best creates an environment of exchange, momentum, movement and rapport/trust building. I also am adept at Zoom mediation for all participants, or in-person/Zoom combinations to accommodate remote participants.
For me, it is critical to prepare in extensive detail for every mediation, so that I fully understand the nuances of the factual, legal and practical issues that create risk and settlement leverage in the case. This the only way I can truly assist business people and their counsel as they evaluate and re-evaluate their risk, in choosing resolution over continued litigation.
The touchstone of mediation should be a collaboration among mediator, counsel and their clients to tailor the approach in each case to meet the needs of all parties, including adopting unconventional approaches and one-off mechanisms to advance the cause of resolution.
I bring to mediation conference rooms four decades of litigation experience in more than thirty-five business litigation subject matter disciplines.
Based upon that experience, I seek to facilitate resolution in a way that best benefits the parties, ultimately brings them closure, and ends throwing more money into the fire of litigation.
I have observed, curated, selected, collected, and refined a combination of practices that I embrace.
My goal, approach and strategy is designed to place business people in the best position to move forward in a constructive and positive way, to conclude the dispute in a way that enables them to do what they do best, which is to build and maintain a successful business.