Ready for Trial? Really?
Being ready to try a case does not mean that trial is the best
way to proceed. An imminent trial often suggests that neither
side was able to dispose of the case by summary judgment or
otherwise, perhaps due to difficult facts, uncertain law, stubborn
positions, or even a lack of resources.
As a trial date approaches, so may the realization that the
central issues and decisions affecting your case are soon to be
placed in the hands of an unpredictable judge or jury.
Mediation, in particular, offers the opportunity to avoid the
time, cost, and uncertainty of trial and, instead, arrive at a
timely, cost-effective, and certain result that satisfies all parties.
At BDRS, our mediation and other ADR services focus on
litigation (and claims likely to end up in litigation) involving the
following substantive areas and issues:
Being ready to try a case does not mean that trial is the best
way to proceed. An imminent trial often suggests that neither
side was able to dispose of the case by summary judgment or
otherwise, perhaps due to difficult facts, uncertain law, stubborn
positions, or even a lack of resources.
As a trial date approaches, so may the realization that the
central issues and decisions affecting your case are soon to be
placed in the hands of an unpredictable judge or jury.
Mediation, in particular, offers the opportunity to avoid the
time, cost, and uncertainty of trial and, instead, arrive at a
timely, cost-effective, and certain result that satisfies all parties.
At BDRS, our mediation and other ADR services focus on
litigation (and claims likely to end up in litigation) involving the
following substantive areas and issues:
- Business and Commercial, including contract,
business torts, and unfair competition disputes
- Construction, including defect, cost overrun, and
delay claims
- Divorce
- Employment and Workplace, including executive
compensation, severance, non-competition, and non-
disclosure issues
- Entertainment, Fine Arts, Music, and Publishing,
including credit and compensation, advances, royalties,
contract disputes, rights of publicity, and copyright
- Insurance, including complex commercial and excess
and surplus lines coverage disputes, Lloyd’s and other
London Market or European insurance issues,
reinsurance, unfair claims settlement practices, and
agent and broker errors and omissions claims
- Intellectual Property, including copyright,
trademark, and trade secrets
- Lloyd’s and Other London Market or European
Insurance, including Names/syndicate relations,
underwriting, broking, duty of utmost good faith, U. S.
brokers and agents, U. S. syndicate operations
- Media, Defamation, and Privacy, including libel
and slander, invasion of privacy, false light portrayal,
access
- Professional Liability, including claims involving
legal, medical, and financial professionals
- Product Liability
- Serious Personal Injury and Death
- Trust and Estates, including will contests,
beneficiary/trustee disputes, fiduciary duty issues
- Unfair or Deceptive Practices, including bad faith
and claims under M. G. L. c. 93A
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