Civil Mediation
Stephanie L. Dobson is currently accepting clients for family mediation, and will be accepting clients for civil mediation by the end of 2010.
Mediation is a process in which adversaries agree to appoint an independent, unbiased, mediator to help them reach a voluntary settlement. The mediator does not decide the settlement; rather, the mediator creates a neutral context for positive discussion that helps the participants move to resolution of their issues.
Participants are encouraged to have legal counsel in preparation for, and throughout the mediation. Moreover, they are assured that mediation can offer the following benefits:
- • Mutual satisfaction
- • Effective results
- • Enhanced communications between the parties
- • Participants lead the process
- • Efficient
- • Confidential, without prejudice
- • Broad range of disputes are resolved
- • Cost-effective
- • Tailor-made solutions to disputes
What disputes are resolved through ADR? -Any that require flexibility, confidentiality and expediency
The following types of disputes may be conducive to the mediation forum, including:
- • Commercial:
- • Debtor/creditor issues
- • Partnership or company disputes
- • Contract disputes
- • Wrongful dismissal
- • Fee disputes
- • Corporate and partnership dissolution
- • Shareholder agreements
- • Employment contracts
- • Purchase agreements
- • Collective bargaining
- • Insurance coverage
- • Trusts
- • Disability
- • Pipelines and landowner claims
- • Personal injuries
- • Workplace disputes
- • Interpersonal conflicts
- • Harassment claims
- • Grievances
- • Debtor-Creditor disputes
- • Victim-Offender Mediation
- • Community Disputes
- • Disputes between neighbours
- • Zoning conflicts
- • Community development
- • School Disputes
- • Parent/Teacher disputes
- • Teacher/Student disputes
- • Student/Student disputes