Boston Mediator
Attorney Robert H. Flynn provides Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services to other lawyers, including arbitration, mediation and neutral evaluation, is an increasingly popular alternative to litigation. ADR is typically quicker, cheaper and less stressful than going to trial. It puts everyone in a room focused only on resolving the dispute and vests everyone with that goal. ADR gives the disputing parties greater control over the process and the outcome. Under the guidance of a skilled arbitrator or mediator, alternative dispute resolution can save significant time and money.
Attorney Robert H. Flynn of Flynn Law Firm brings more than 35 years of experience preparing, trying, arbitrating, mediating, negotiating and settling serious injury and death cases, business disputes, contract, commercial, 93A and construction cases and serving as a neutral in these types of cases. For over 10 years, he has helped bring closure to cases for other lawyers by mediating or arbitrating those disputes as a neutral. Disputing parties are just a phone call away from closure in weeks of that case which needs alternative dispute resolution as the most effective path to settlement to facilitate prompt resolution.
Mediation
A mediator's goal is to help disputing parties arrive at an agreement. A mediator is a skilled
neutral; someone not vested in the outcome of the case but is vested in seeing the matter resolved by way of settlement. A mediator's methodology ranges from the facilitative to the evaluative or judgmental end of the spectrum. A skilled mediator does not impose the mediator's views, particularly at the outset; a skilled mediator facilitates the parties' examination of their own cases, their own exposures, risks and likely outcomes absent a settlement. A skilled mediator guides the parties towards a consensus, letting
the parties achieve settlement, reserving more evaluative comments for the end of a stymied mediation. Mediation offers the parties a great deal of control over the venue, the process, the timing, the expense and the final outcome.
Arbitration
Arbitration is at the other end of the spectrum from mediation. Once the parties agree to arbitrate a matter, they have left the decision making in the hands of a third party, an arbitrator in a multi-arbitrator panel or three arbitrators. An arbitrator acts as a judge and jury, making findings of fact and rulings of law.
Neutral Evaluation
A neutral evaluation, like mediation, is non-binding but, in a sense, is a bit like arbitration if both parties agree to do it. Both parties submit materials to the arbitrator and can actually submit testimony by deposition, affidavit or in person, and the neutral is then asked to evaluate the realistically likely outcomes. The parties and the evaluator can structure the process to their liking. The parties can request a suggested settlement figure, a range of numbers from least likely to most likely found, no commentary on liability or damages, or some commentary on liability and damages, as the parties choose.
Contact Massachusetts Mediator and Arbitrator Robert H. Flynn
E-mail or call 781-489-3728 to discuss whether the Flynn Law Firm can help you resolve your dispute by alternative means of dispute resolution and bring it to closure within weeks of your call.
