Disputes occur day in day out among family members, friends, colleagues, and in the community at large. Some conflicts are serious that it requires a judge to settle the dispute. The court battle at times can take longer to be settled because the judge may have many pending cases and he or she has to deal with the previous cases before he or she can be ready to hear the dispute case at hand. The best way to handle dispute cases in the shortest time possible is by hiring a mediation lawyer. The lawyer will be able to hear from both parties and come up with a fair stand that will make the aggrieved party solve their disputes and understand each other again. This article will discuss the benefits of hiring a mediation lawyer.
Hiring a mediation lawyer is less costly than going to the court’s corridor to settle dispute cases. The court’s way of settling disputes requires both parties to hire an individual lawyer. This means that each party can cough up thousands of dollars if the case happens to drag for a long time. The judge will be required to be furnished with information from both parties and this means that both parties will be required to search and type and print the required information. This will be added costs. Hiring the mediating lawyer on the other side, the only cost you will incur is just the hiring cost which is not as much because it is a one-off fee. If the case drags for a long time the cost does not change it remains the same.
Privacy is very important and with a mediation lawyer you are guaranteed the said privacy. Hiring a mediation lawyer means that the lawyer will be calling on both parties in his office or in a neutral place where there are no members of the public and the journalists. The mediation lawyer will try his best to keep your dispute a secret as he or she is bound not to share his or her client’s information with anyone. The court’s way a dispute cannot be a secret as there are members of the public and the media across the country and sometimes international media depending on the parties involved and the weight of the dispute.
The mediation lawyer accepts the clients to make decisions and participate in the process. This is not the case when one decides to go the court way. The client’s precipitation in the process brings clients satisfaction because, in the end, the parties are the ones to decide to come up with an agreement that they will decide to follow. The court’s way is where a third party comes in and decides for the party without the client’s participation and in the end, one of the clients may feel that the judge was not fair and it may cause even more bad blood between the parties. The mediation lawyer will be able to bring the clients into understanding each other and respect the decision they all got involved in making during the mediation process.