Court litigations can become painful sometimes especially when you are expecting your final court outcome quickly. Court litigations can become expensive and consume considerable amount of time. At BizLegalServices, our main goal is to win a successful outcome for our clients within reasonable time and cost. It is with this intention that we adopted Alternative Dispute Resolutions services to our law firm.

Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADR) such as Negotiation, Mediation, and Arbitration are all out-of-court dispute settlement mechanisms. They are proved to be cost and time effective. Moreover, these ADR mechanisms increase control over the process and outcome of your case, preserve relationship with your adversaries (especially if you have an on-going business or anticipated future business deals), and increases your privacy concerning the dispute. Our firm’s ADR services include the following:

Negotiation

We provide important and very crucial expert legal advice for our clients on how to handle negotiations with their adversaries. The clear Do’s and Don’ts and the legal repercussions of your every move in the negotiation process will be a material input to you for an end-result in your favor. We also take up negotiations on your behalf with your adversaries.

Mediation

This is a process where acceptable, impartial and neutral third party who has no decision-making authority intervenes into a dispute or unsuccessful negotiation. This mechanism becomes useful when disputing parties fail to take steps to settle their disputes though negotiations or where such negotiations remained to be unfruitful. The mediator (the third person with the decision-making authority) often works with the disputing parties individually to see the resolution options, makes primarily procedural and substantive suggestions as a means of encouraging the parties to expand the range of possible resolutions.

In this kind of settlement mechanism, you will need to be represented by a counsel. That is where our law firm comes into picture. At BizLegalServices, we take your matters seriously and represent you during such mediation process to secure your interests.

Arbitration

This ADR mechanism involves the presentation of a dispute to an impartial or neutral individual (arbitrator) or panel (arbitration panel) for issuance of a binding decision. Even though this mechanism seems to be adversarial just as trial practice, it is still very different from court litigation.

As a disputing party, you still get to choose the arbitrator who will decide on the dispute, the procedure to be followed, the governing substantive law, the place of arbitration, etc. Most importantly, you will have the benefit of choosing an arbitrator who is experienced with the type of dispute you have at hand.

Whether institutionalized or ad-hoc arbitration, disputing parties are strongly advised to be represented by experienced legal counsel. BizLegalServices can fill this gap for you. With ample experience in arbitration areas over the years, we have the required understanding, exposure and real-time practice experience in representing clients before an arbitral tribunal, both in institutional and ad-hoc arbitrations.

Our multi-cultural backgrounds enable us to effectively reach out to our clients to their satisfactions. Our strong relations with the major market players from Ethiopia, and India placed us in an ideal position to serve our clients from these countries with their commercial arbitrations. We can assist you in your own language or help you appoint arbitrators knowledgeable in your business and speaking your language. If you are at the contract drafting and negotiation stage, we also give an expert advice and involve with you in drafting a comprehensive arbitration clause with all the required legal issues.