Key Highlights of Our Process

• Initial contact

• Preparation before meeting with joint sessions only when appropriate

• At the meeting

1. Full attention and investment in solution

• It’s not just fielding (positional bargaining) offers.

• It’s Identifying interests.

• It’s considering creative solutions.

• It’s measuring practical realities and reasonable expectations.

2. Review the court file in advance of first meeting to know the level of contentiousness and engagement.

3. Talk to each party’s attorney

4. Get to know everyone by the paperwork

6. Solution based

• Looking for win-win solutions.

• Adjusting expectations to reality, measuring cost of no solution and potential remedies to problem.

7. Close

• Encourage and persuade to adopt a solution and avoid imposed solution.