MEDIATION
Mediation results in creative, legal alternatives that a judge or jury cannot provide. It allows parties to contemplate their needs and interests both inside and outside the legal parameters of the dispute. It has the potential to restore or repair relationships, and to allow custom-made solutions. Most mediated settlements are complied with so that further post-trial litigation is unnecessary. Mediation does not adversely affect any legal rights a party has, and Court remains an option should mediation fail.
Having spent over two decades as a court room advocate, Lauren’s passion as a litigator has followed in her transition to her role as a mediator and neutral dispute resolution facilitator. Lauren studied mediation at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. She focused on mediating complex multi-party civil disputes and resolving seemingly intractable problems.
Lauren’s education and training in psychology assists her in understanding the complexities of each of the parties’ interests. Lauren brings a breadth of knowledge and understanding to a wide variety of complex cases, offering mediation in divorce and family law cases, commercial, construction, and contract cases, civil disputes, environmental and land use permit cases, employment disputes, personal injury cases, real property and land disputes, and business disagreement / dissolution.
In her role as mediator, Lauren works to assist parties to voluntarily create enduring solutions to conflict – often using mediation as a tool to deepen and expand each party’s understanding of the interests and needs of the other party. “Successfully mediating a case,” Lauren says, “makes complex litigation look easy. A good mediator is both legally and humanly insightful, and can, with skill and care, unravel the many levels of financial, emotional and social interest of each party, and then skillfully expand the dialogue to include creative and mutually satisfactory approaches to settlement.”
Lauren offers family law and divorce mediation and works directly with couples pre-separation and post-separation or is retained by divorce lawyers to assist in the mediation of family law cases. She is experienced in the mediation of high asset, complex financial matters and cases involving intense emotional conflict, and has analyzed dozens of business valuations, pension and retirement plans, stock options, and investment portfolios.
Lauren is also experienced in a broad range of civil and contract matters, including intellectual property, contracts, business succession and dissolution, and shareholder disputes. She often works with families and individuals to assist them in the settlement of a wide range of probate, trust, and estate disputes.