Effective Solutions to Complex Problems
Complex problems require effective and efficient solutions through alternative mediation methods, such as those provided by Hurley Mediation Legal Services, LLC.
Mediation is an alternative to the traditional method associated with our legal and judicial system for resolving conflicts, whether it is a civil law or family law dispute. Our current legal system has become overly burdensome and unreasonably costly to the public. Yet, the public continues to attempt to resolve their disputes by engaging in costly litigation. Litigants seek unreasonable outcomes by filing lawsuits, rather than to negotiate a reasonable solution through mediation. However, in the past twenty years, mediation has come to be regarded as a legitimate process for resolving disputes among parties. It is an informal and non-adversarial process intended to help parties reach a mutual acceptable agreement or solution to their disputes.
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Rick Hurley, founder of Hurley Mediation Legal Services, notes numerous practical advantages to mediation compared to traditional litigation procedures as a means of resolving disputes. Rick focuses on the following:
- Mediation helps to preserve a business relationship so that both parties can “save face;” there are no winners or losers and the parties can enter into an agreement that provides a creative solution that could not have been achieved with a judge, arbitrator, or expert;
- The cost and process of mediation is less than litigation. Clearly, the cost of litigation has become excessive and the waiting period to have one’s case heard in a timely manner before a judge or magistrate has become unbearable;
- During the mediation process the presentation by the attorneys and/or their clients is conducted without prejudice to either party. The proceedings are private and confidential. Everyone participating in a mediation is subject to the rules of confidentiality and either party can reveal or disclose information to the mediator in private that could help aid in a settlement;
- Finally, the attorneys, their clients and the mediator have control over the mediation; they schedule the time and place for the mediation, usually at the convenience of everyone associated with the mediation, and it is conducted in an informal manner and a comfortable setting.
Rick Hurley, a successful trial attorney in New Jersey and New York City, relocated to his home in the Tampa Bay area, although he maintains an office and trial practice in New Jersey and New York, and to start a mediation firm in the Bay area. He wanted to provide these services to the Bay Area using his skills and extensive trial experience. He believes that each of our lives are defined by the decisions we make each day, and recognizes how our decisions will impact our daily lives and our long term well-being. We all possess the power to competently weigh the advantages and disadvantages of our decisions. A mediator can help disputing parties make their own decisions, and consequently the parties will be more likely to accept and be satisfied with the outcome of those choices. While the mediator will aid the disputing parties come to self-determination, the disputing parties’ decisions will be a reflection of their decisions, their creativity and their awareness. Since the disputing parties understand that they must live with and take responsibility for their decisions, the parties, with the aid of the mediator, will likely exercise great care when coming to an agreement; and the agreement will be their agreement and not the decision of a judge or arbitrator.
