Alternative dispute resolution has successfully resolved disputes in the sports world for many years, allowing all parties to illustrate their strengths (and weakness). And as their followers know, both Ortiz and the Red Sox have a few.

We all have the capacity to hold onto anger, but with the help of such firms as Massachusetts Dispute Resolution Services, you can effectively let go of it. Alternative dispute resolution is a convenient and successful way to resolve your personal legal disputes. Divorce, employment and business matters, even negligence, are often surrounded by personal resentment and can be swept under the proverbial rug of life. Some cases, like personal injury and accidents should be dealt with immediately; however, family and business issues are often left to fester.

In order to truly start the year fresh, resolve to speak with a mediator. ADR can be, quite literally, one of your 2012 resolutions.

The mediation process is well-suited to the Occupy movement’s mission—it is an inexpensive (and therefore more accessible) way to sort through and resolve complex disputes. Boston has been relatively open to the movement, avoiding many of the violent set-backs other occupied cities incurred. Mediation has granted the City, students, and residents an efficient, neutral, positive legal outlet for serious solutions.

But it’s in the nature of planning for, and traveling through, the holidays (finance, business, shopping, travel, family) when disputes sometimes rear their ugly head. If you find yourself dealing with a insurmountable problem, talk to an experienced mediator as soon as possible. Whatever your dispute, mediation is a positive, inexpensive way to approach it. Resolve your problems quickly so you can be truly thankful this holiday season.

A team of lawyers, divorce mediators, and counselors, as well as the regular hotel staff, help couples who have markedly simple marital arrangements facilitate quick and comfortable divorces. This kind of divorce is for cooperative couples with their own assets who don’t have young children together.

While it seems a long way off, a 2 1/2 day vacation is actually what divorce mediation might seem like to couples who thought litigation was their only option. If only we offered complementary dessert.

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Mediation has tremendous power to bring multiple parties toward an amicable compromise, but it cannot force parties to rid themselves of previous resentments. There are ways, however, to encourage parties involved in a mediation case to let go of their preconceptions and anger. Resolution will occur more quickly and lead to a potentially more agreeable solution if it’s based on mutual understanding. The mediator in any case, whether divorce, business, or personal, will help level the playing field, so the parties involved are compensated and able to resolve not only the dispute, but their feelings about it.

Mediation is a very straight-forward and transparent process at its core, which means sharing information among parties helps facilitate the resolution.

Each party, attorney, mediator and neutral brings something important to the mediation process, and understands the value of a smooth dispute resolution.  Sharing relevant information is helpful and will not hinder the ADR process, because it acts to bring each party closer the fundamental details of the case.

Please enjoy a short video, also featured on YouTube here, in which I talk about the advantages of mediation and alternative dispute resolution.

- Brian Jerome

MDRS is looking forward to a great ADR conference.

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It is imperative that mediators and arbitrators focus on the use of plain and comprehensive language during talks to ensure that each party is on a level playing field.  Mediation is more likely to successfully resolving conflicts and disputes if the legal language is translated into concise, readable language.

Plain language can be applied t0 many different contexts.  Your mediator or arbitrator should preview court documents and forms to be sure parties who don’t have a legal background can clearly understand them. In addition to understanding your case legally, he or she should also understand it humanely.