CMR’s neutrals have legal experience in the types of disputes they mediate and arbitrate. It allows them to see issues more readily and with greater understanding.CMR’s mediators view disputes with an objective perspective. They recognize the unique business, legal and interpersonal interests of the matter and consider them throughout the dispute resolution process.

Impediments to settlement are overcome in a variety of ways. Breaking impasse requires parties to focus their communication and seek a collaborative solution to problems and issues preventing progress towards settlement. In doing so, the mediator can not only help brainstorm, clarify and refine issues, the mediator can guide decision making to move the dispute towards resolution.

CMR’s mediators utilize a very flexible approach to mediation that focuses on clarifying issues and needs while generating options for mutual gain based upon informed decision-making. This no-nonsense approach focuses on realistic, informed solutions.

To this end, our mediator’s approach may run the gamut from the facilitative, focusing on encouraging self-determination and long term interests, to the evaluative, focusing on the realities of a case, risk assessment, and a cost-benefit analysis. Throughout the mediation process the attorney/client relationship is respected while there is a commitment to personal attention and satisfaction while achieving results. It is our mediators’ ability to promote productive negotiations that is at the heart of successful mediations.

The objectives of our meditors is to build consensus among the parties which will form the basis of a lasting agreement and, when possible, preserve valuable relationships, through the use of:

• Focused Communications
• Collaborative Problem Solving
• Guided Decision-making

CMR adds value to your process by promoting cooperation, focus and logic. Our mediators assist you in analyzing the realities of a dispute, and in identifying, developing and exploring solutions.