Services: Mediation and Negotiations

I've spent 33 successful years negotiating deals.

I have negotiated deals between two party disputants to multi-party disputes. I have negotiated in life and death situations, community issues and substantial deals in the corporate arena.

I have Mastered the art of Negotiation, as a result from the years of experience, various situations, environments and education.

I am seen above with Mr. Daniel Shapiro one of my Professors from Harvard University and who I admire. Professor Dan Shapiro was   

​Named one of the top 15 professors at Harvard University, Daniel Shapiro, Ph.D., is founder and director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program, associate professor in psychology at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, and affiliate faculty at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.  He consults regularly for government leaders and Fortune 500 companies and has advised everyone from hostage negotiators to families in crisis, disputing CEOs to clashing heads of state. 

Shapiro has traveled around the world working to resolve identity-based conflicts, from ethnic wars in Yugoslavia to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Mediation is one way for people to settle disputes or lawsuits outside  of court.

As a Mediator – I help the disputing parties look for a solution  that works for them.

Mediation is a process in which an impartial third party facilitates communication and negotiation and promotes voluntary  decision making by the parties to the dispute.

Mediation serves various  purposes, including providing the opportunity for parties to define and  clarify issues, understand different perspectives, identify interests,  explore and assess possible solutions, and reach mutually satisfactory  agreements, when desired.

 
Mediation is creating harmony from discord. 

Positive relationships can be built using an Expert and Experienced Harvard trained Negotiator and Mediator. 

Types of Mediation: Choose the Type Best Suited to Your Conflict

When parties involved in a serious conflict want to avoid a court battle, there are types of mediation can be an effective alternative. In mediation, a trained mediator tries to help the parties find common ground using principles of collaborative, mutual-gains negotiation. We tend to think mediation processes are alike, but in fact, mediators follow different approaches depending on the type of conflict they are dealing with. 

Facilitative Mediation 

In facilitative mediation or traditional mediation, a professional mediator attempts to facilitate negotiation between the parties in conflict. Rather than making recommendations or imposing a decision, the mediator encourages disputants to reach their own voluntary solution by exploring each other’s deeper interests. In facilitative mediation, mediators tend to keep their own views regarding the conflict hidden.

Evaluative Mediation

Standing in direct contrast to facilitative mediation is evaluative mediation, a type of mediation in which mediators are more likely to make recommendations and suggestions and to express opinions. Instead of focusing primarily on the underlying interests of the parties involved, evaluative mediators may be more likely to help parties assess the legal merits of their arguments and make fairness determinations. Evaluative mediation is most often used in court-mandated mediation, and evaluative mediators are often attorneys who have legal expertise in the area of the dispute.

Transformative Mediation 

In transformative mediation, mediators focus on empowering disputants to resolve their conflict and encouraging them to recognize each other’s needs and interests.    

At its most ambitious, the process aims to transform the parties and their relationship through the process of acquiring the skills they need to make constructive change.

Court-Mandated Mediation

Although mediation is typically defined as a completely voluntary process, it can be mandated by a court that is interested in promoting a speedy and cost-efficient settlement. When parties and their attorneys are reluctant to engage in mediation, their odds of settling through court-mandated mediation are low, as they may just be going through the motions. But when parties on both sides see the benefits of engaging in the process, settlement rates are much higher.

I am a Licensed Paralegal with the Law Society of Upper Canada as well as the Ontario Paralegal Association.

The regulatory scheme set out in the Law Society permits me to practice in the following permitted areas: 

In Small Claims Court, in the Ontario Court of Justice under  the Provincial Offences Act, on summary conviction offences where the  maximum penalty does not exceed six months’ imprisonment and /or a  $5,000 fine, before administrative tribunals, including the Financial  Services Commission of Ontario.

As a licenced paralegal I can do the following in the course of representing a client in any of the above-mentioned proceedings:

1. Give a party advice on his, her or its legal interests, rights or responsibilities with

respect to a proceeding or the subject matter of a proceeding.

2. Represent a party before, i. in the case of a proceeding in the  Small Claims Court, before the Small Claims Court, ii. in the case of a  proceeding under the Provincial Offences Act, before the Ontario Court  of Justice, iii in the case of a proceeding under the Criminal Code,  before a summary conviction court, iv. in the case of a proceeding  before a tribunal established under an Act of the Legislature of Ontario  or under an Act of Parliament, before the tribunal, and v. in the case  of a proceeding before a person dealing with a claim or a matter related  to a claim, before the person.

3. Select, draft, complete or revise, or assist in the selection,  drafting, completion or revision of, a document for use in a proceeding.

4. Negotiate a party’s legal interests, rights or responsibilities  with respect to a proceeding or the subject matter of a proceeding.

5. Select, draft, complete or revise, or assist in the selection,  drafting, completion or revision of, a document that affects a party’s  legal interests, rights or responsibilities with respect to a proceeding  or the subject matter of a proceeding.

I am a Negotiator, Mediator and provide excellence in Mediation.