Alternatives to Litigation

Lawyers know better than most that not every dispute should result in a lawsuit. Good lawyers know that not every lawsuit should result in a trial. Most lawyers have participated as advocates in court-directed or privately facilitated settlement conferences and mediation. The trick for the client is to hire lawyers who know this, have done all this and who have been hired by their fellow lawyers to provide the independent settlement facilitation. Ebeltoft . Sickler . Lawyers are the lawyers you need.

Ebeltoft . Sickler . Lawyers have hands-on experience with how the ADR processes, at their most simple and their most complex, actually work. We know arbitration and mediation, as advocates and as an independent provider of ADR services. As a result, at Ebeltoft . Sickler . Lawyers ADR is not treated as merely a poor relative of the litigation process. When we are hired as business counsel, we can implement a program of dispute resolution within your company that will help keep you from the courtroom. When hired as litigation counsel, we can chart an early course that will use ADR most effectively for you. When we are hired as facilitative or evaluative mediators, we can use our experience to provide that extra measure of innovation to help bring the parties together.