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More than 90 percent of disputes that result in lawsuits are resolved without the ultimate confrontation and expense of a formal trial. By far the most effective method of avoiding the escalating cost -- both monetary and emotional -- of formal litigation, and the courtroom, is a process called mediation. Very few people want their differences aired publicly. Being able to bring adverse parties to the table, working through surface issues to the real controversies, allowing a forum for expressing and venting by all sides, and reaching closure where dignity and principle are maintained, is an art reserved to those with sufficient experience and the appropriate temperment. Over the last three decades, Mahmoud Abouzeid, Jr. has participated in many mediated disputes both as an advocate and as a mediator. He has served as both a settlement judge and a trial judge in the California Superior Courts. For more information, please provide Details |
