WHY CIVIL MEDIATION IS A GREAT OPTION!
Mediation is much less costly than civil litigation for many reasons:
- It is cheaper than going to court!!!
- Mediation is most certainly less days than court; the cost of your time away from business will be minimal.
- Preparation for mediation is far easier and simpler.
- Attorneys are not always necessary.
- There should be minimal court filing fees and related expenses.
- Mediation is a private process and not subject to public knowledge and possible media attention.
- In mediation, the parties are full participants and can express their own opinions and concerns.
- Mediation allows the opportunity for parties to work together and reach a settlement and continue to work together.
- After there is a settlement, if other items come into dispute, a new mediation can be scheduled without affecting the prior settled items.
- Mediation can protect parties from some of the extra problems associated with civil litigation, such as punitive awards, if applicable.
- There is no jury in mediation.
- Discovery is limited in mediation, which usually means that disputants attorneys, if involved in the mediation, will rarely pursue the burdensome fishing expeditions that can occur in ordinary litigation’s.
- Today, most of the civil cases that are filed with a court of jurisdiction are remanded to mediation by the judge to see if a settlement can be reached. If no settlement is reached, the case will then be scheduled for hearing before the court.