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When the goal is resolution, do your lawyers bring legal insight, negotiation skills, and deep subject-matter knowledge to the table?
As litigation grows more expensive and disruptive, parties are turning to mediation and arbitration earlier and more often. Our lawyers do more than represent clients in alternative dispute resolution. They also serve as the neutral mediators who bring parties toward agreement and the arbitrators entrusted to decide the dispute. This work is a core part of our practice, and our lawyers are called on routinely by other lawyers, businesses and insurers seeking a trusted path to resolution.
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Many lawyers participate in mediation or arbitration as advocates. Our team also sits in the neutral’s chair. Our mediators and arbitrators are regularly chosen by counsel to take control of the process, and corporate and insurance clients also turn to our team as preferred neutrals. In mediation, we help the parties test positions, identify common ground and work toward an agreement. In arbitration, we preside over the hearing, evaluate the evidence and render the decision the parties have asked us to make.
Our work is centered in Oklahoma state and federal matters, but our experience crosses state lines. We are equipped to conduct proceedings regardless of venue through secure virtual platforms or travel to the location the parties select. Wherever the dispute arises, we remain focused on establishing a fair process, bringing sound judgment to the issues and keeping the matter moving toward resolution.
Volume gives us an edge at the table
ADR is not occasional work for us. Our most active neutral routinely handles more than 100 mediations and arbitrations in a year, and there is rarely a week when members of our team
are not conducting one or more proceedings. That volume sharpens our judgment about what is driving a dispute, where movement may be possible and how to keep the process productive. Many mediations result in settlement that same day, even when the case has been pending for months or years.
Members of our team have also served as speakers and contributors on dispute resolution practices for the American Arbitration Association and the Center for Public Resources. One of our lawyers has been inducted into the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, an organization that requires at least 200 successful mediations for membership.
We keep working when the easy answers run out
A difficult dispute may not yield to the first proposal or settle within the scheduled day. We do not simply declare an impasse and walk away. Our mediators stay engaged, continue the conversation and look for practical solutions that may not have been obvious at the outset. That persistence, along with a thoughtful and creative approach, is a major reason our clients continue to call on us for dispute resolution.
Our experience includes:
- Employment discrimination, labor and management relations and other workplace disputes
- Business, bankruptcy, restructuring, contractual and transactional disputes
- Medical malpractice and other healthcare-related disputes
- Personal injury, insurance and tort matters
- Intellectual property conflicts
As litigation costs escalate, ADR is moving to the front
The expense and burden of trial are changing how parties resolve disputes. We are seeing an increased demand for our ADR services as more litigants agree to binding arbitration, sometimes after a case is already well underway. We help clients assess whether mediation or arbitration offers a better route, and we regularly screen litigation matters for ADR opportunities. We also represent clients in mediations and arbitrations, draft dispute resolution clauses and advise on provisions that can give businesses more control over future conflicts.