Mediation is defined as “intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it.”  By choosing the mediation process to resolve business disputes, it can benefit you in several ways.

Time Saved by Choosing Mediation

As a business owner, you understand that time is money.  If you go to court, it requires you to spend time away from working with clients.  In addition, the legal process can take up to a year to be resolved.  By utilizing mediation prior to filing suit, your dispute can be resolved in significantly less time and money.

Money

Another downside to going to court are costs involved in filing a lawsuit.  Costs such as filing fees, court costs and service of process fees add up, especially for a small business owner.  Another cost that a business owner may incur are attorney’s fees.  By choosing mediation, a business owner can resolve a dispute with a smaller investment. These costs usually wind up being more than the amount you are seeking in your lawsuit thus generating not only an impact to your wallet but also to your overall health.

Choosing Mediation Saves You Stress

Conflict can be extremely stressful.  For a business owner, building relationships is important to building a business.  When communication breaks down in a business relationship, it creates stress along with the increase of time and loss of money.  By going to court to resolve a dispute, there is usually one winner and one loser.  By choosing mediation, a business owner can reach a resolution that potentially benefits both parties.

How we are different

There are hundreds of mediators, but almost all of them will tell you they can’t give legal advice.  This means you still have to pay your own lawyer, as does the other side, and both of your lawyers will be telling you that the time for mediation will not come until much later during the court case – after most of the money is gone.  Sam Ventola is an experienced litigator with 30 years’ experience, and explains the law to both parties and tell them how it applies to their dispute.

To save you time, stress and money, we offer online scheduling for dispute resolutions.  Click here to schedule yours.

Sam Ventola has been a litigator for over 30 years.  He uses this vast experience to resolve disputes as a mediator.  When not saving the world from high legal expenses, he spends time saving the world through video games with his daughters. 

Ventola Mediation serves the Denver Metro area including Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Brighton, Commerce City, Castle Rock, Golden, Lakewood, Littleton and Arapahoe, Adams, Douglas and Jefferson Counties in Colorado.