Litigation is a poor way to resolve disputes. It's cumbersome, distracting, expensive, stressful, and full of knowable and unknowable risks.
Mediation allows the parties to confront the risks and opportunities presented by potential, threatened, or pending litigation in a secure environment where the discussions are confidential; the outcome is dictated by the parties (not by a judge or arbitrator); and the options for resolution can include choices no court can order.
The mediation process allows the parties to break down the critical elements of their disputes and assess their strengths, weaknesses, exposures, and opportunities.
Blackman ADR Services provides a cost-effective way to get to the essence of a case, explore underlying issues, evaluate a range of outcomes in light of the facts and law, and then find a better resolution than is likely to be the case after an onerously expensive trial in which justice is uncertain.
Lee Blackman, Blackman ADR's Principal, is an experienced litigator and mediator with a broad and sophisticated background in a wide range of legal areas, including simple and complicated business, regulatory, employment, negligence, civil rights, and environmental disputes. His strength is thorough case analysis, followed by thoughtful, creative, persistent, and respectful risk assessment and the search for ways to protect and advance core interests through effective settlement discussions.
