What Makes Us Different

A mediator who focuses on disputes just like yours will know the law related to your dispute inside and out. A mediator with that focus will know the issues—the ones you’ve thought of and the ones you haven’t—to address so that nothing is left to chance. A mediator with that focus would help the parties reach a better outcome. But most mediators are generalists. That means they spend a lot of time on the learning curve for the issues in your dispute.

That’s not us. That’s not our approach. Instead, we focus exclusively on mediating law firm partnership disputes, and related disputes. This focus means we start the mediation from a totally different place. And we end it at a different place, too.

We don’t think that a last-minute mad rush, borne of exhaustion, to decide the serious issues that will define the future of your professional life leads to the best result. But that’s what you typically get in a one-size-fits-all traditional mediation.

From the first moment we get involved as mediators, we analyze what specific process will fit your dispute. Your customized process may include what we call Sequenced Mediation—not all on the same day, and not all waiting around. Your customized process may include online, in-person, synchronous, or asynchronous components, or all of the above. Your customized process will be unique to your dispute, because we’ve learned that every law firm partnership dispute deserves a specialized approach.

Our specialized approach saves the parties, and their counsel, critical time and effort and allows for a thoughtful resolution that everyone can live with, without regret.