Business Law - Mediation and Other Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes

Disputes between business interests and contracting parties are a fact of doing business.  However, parties can utilize dispute resolution options that are better designed for their specific situation and business needs than litigation or arbitration models.  The Zeytoonian Center offers processes like mediation, collaborative law and case evaluation that are time and cost efficient, as viable options to an adversarial, cumbersome court process or a binding arbitration over which the parties have little control.

Our focus is on taking proactive measures and utilizing alternative dispute resolution in business situations and disputes arising out of the following examples:  

• Contracts with subcontractors, independent contractors and sources
• Licensing, franchising and other business relationship agreements
• Employment, partnership, buy-sell and severance agreements
• Restrictive covenants (non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality and proprietary information agreements and clauses)
• Business reorganizations, break-ups, dissolutions
• Commercial transactions
• Workplace and employment related matters
• Business entity formation
• Closely-held and family business disputes
• Drafting and review of employment manuals, policies and procedures

Should situations develop into disputes, business and organizational clients have choices for dealing with those disputes, and resolving them in ways that are better suited to their specific situations and circumstances.  Not only are the Zeytoonian Center's approaches designed by intention to resolve the dispute, but are responsive to what matters most to parties in business disputes:  cost efficiency, speed, preservation of important relationships, minimal loss of productivity or disruption in the workplace and no reputational damage.  And our clients can maintain control over the process used as well as the determinations of which options will best resolve the matter.