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Mediation Services
Artz & Dewhirst provides mediation services for courts, businesses, insurance companies, universities, government agencies, community organizations, membership organizations, and individuals. Mediation is a confidential process in which a neutral third party provides a structure for assisting disputing parties to resolve their conflict. Mediation is used to resolve disputes involving many issues including commercial contracts, divorce, workplace disagreements, personal injury claims, and labor-management contracts. Mediation is usually a voluntary process in which parties are given an opportunity to share their perspectives, listen to the other party's perspective, generate potential solutions to the conflict, and reach a mutually agreeable resolution to the conflict. Mediation is an increasingly used option to resolving disputes because it is less complicated, time consuming and costly than the traditional litigation process. To schedule a mediation or to learn more about mediation, please contact our office. Arbitration Services Artz & Dewhirst provides arbitration services for courts, businesses, insurance companies and individuals. Arbitration involved a neutral third party called an arbitrator who conducts an informal hearing and then issues a decision. There are many forms of arbitration, however private binding arbitration and court-connect non-binding arbitration are the most common forms. In private arbitrations, the parties make decisions regarding the rules, length, location and authority of the arbitrator prior to the commencement of the arbitration. Court-connected arbitrations are governed by the local rules of the court. Arbitration can be a viable alternative to the complicated, time consuming and costly aspects of the traditional trial process. To schedule an arbitration or to learn more about arbitration, please call our office. Facilitation Services Artz & Dewhirst provides group facilitation services to government agencies, community organizations, and non-profit organizations. Facilitation refers to the processes in which a neutral third party coordinates and conducts multi-party meetings designed to resolve a conflict, create a collaborative policy, or simply share information and perspectives. Facilitation is helpful when there are many parties to a conflict who represent varying perspectives and yet are interconnected. Facilitation is used to resolve disputes involving many issues including government regulations, environmental disputes, community services, zoning and land use, and inter and intra-organizational disagreements. To contract for facilitation services or to learn more about facilitation, please contact our office. Mediation, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Presentations & Training Artz & Dewhirst offers a variety of presentations and trainings that can be tailored to the needs of a specific group or can provide a general overview of dispute resolution. Tailored trainings can focus on representing clients in mediation, using conflict resolution skills in the workplace, enhancing negotiation skills and more. Training have been provided for attorneys, judges, health care professionals, university faculty, social workers, business leaders, government and private employees, clergy, school teachers, and many others. For more information regarding training programs, please contact our office. Artz & Dewhirst also administers the training program for the Center for Dispute Resolution at Capital University Law School. Please visit http://www.law.capital.edu/disputeresolution to review the complete listing of the regularly scheduled trainings that are open to the public and to register for the training(s) of your choice. |