Business Mediation Practice Areas
In the USA, the top business disputes include contracts, employment, leadership, financial matters, and business with other businesses. Of 20 million commercial lawsuits annually, 60% are contract cases (average cost $91,000 [Court Statistics Project]). The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports the median judgment in a contract trial is $35,000 and punitive damages are $68,000. Any business that deals with people (vendors, customers, employees…) and products or services will have disputes that, when unresolved, often turn into expensive lawsuits. Additionally, lawsuits are often the root of public information that ruins relationships, brands, and public confidence. Our mediator is here to help you make peace.
Mediation resolves disputes privately, out of court. Gale Allison, as an impartial mediator, helps all sides communicate with each other and avoid confrontation to arrive at a written, signed solution.
Mediating Business Issues of All Kinds
In the USA, the top business disputes include contracts, employment, leadership, financial matters, and business with other businesses. Of 20 million commercial lawsuits annually, 60% are contract cases (average cost $91,000 [Court Statistics Project]). The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports the median judgment in a contract trial is $35,000 and punitive damages are $68,000. Any business that deals with people (vendors, customers, employees…) and products or services will have disputes that, when unresolved, often turn into expensive lawsuits. Additionally, lawsuits are often the root of public information that ruins relationships, brands, and public confidence. Our mediator is here to help you make peace.
Mediation resolves disputes privately, out of court. Gale Allison, as an impartial mediator, helps all sides communicate with each other and avoid confrontation to arrive at a written, signed solution.
Mediating Business Issues of All Kinds
Controversies arise from verbal promises, assumptions, misunderstandings, partner philosophies, company policies and procedures, and even outright claims of theft. The problems can be messy and distracting. When they are “insider knowledge”, it is hard for employees and leaders to stay on track. When they become public knowledge, the disputes often spur expensive lawsuits with public, Court-ordered solutions that can potentially ruin the company.
As a certified mediator with skill honed from decades as an attorney, business owner, and litigator, Gale Allison easily handles conflicts related to Business Issues. Her goal is to help people communicate with each other to focus on mutual interests, live, and work in peace with settling conflicts over things like:
· Agreements / Contracts (Vendors, Suppliers, Service Providers)
· Disagreement on Direction
· Discrimination (race, age, disability, gender, et al.)
· Financial accountability or appropriation
· Hiring or Termination / Dismissal
· Leadership
· Non-compete and confidentiality breaches
Oklahoma Business Mediator
Gale Allison knows the parties in Business disputes settle by removing unpleasant confrontation. She knows that those involved recognize their needs and priorities, but require help to communicate and stay on task to find solutions. Without taking sides or making decisions she facilitates exploring and creating options to meet their mutual interests. She clearly sets and reinforces expectations, diplomatically keeping the focus on needs rather than positions or demands. Working easily between clients, attorneys, and independent expert resources she assures everyone understands the written agreement and the consequences of failure to agree. She helps people divided by differences create enforceable solutions and make peace.
Gale Allison has decades as an attorney and business owner before becoming certified to Mediate Litigated Cases (lawsuits). She knows about shouldering the responsibility of the company’s reputation as well as what it is like to get something less than expected from another business. Helping people customize creative solutions to disputes is her approach to mediating Business conflicts. See her mediation credentials, explore her other types of mediation, and learn more in her Asked & Answered Blog.