Specialized neutral services for resolving business disputes.

Mediation | Arbitration | Other ADR Services

Most court proceedings involve traffic accidents and other personal injuries, criminal prosecutions, and family law matters. Few courts are equipped to handle complex business disputes efficiently and predictably. The judicial system is not very businesslike and not very service oriented. That’s why SGS offers specialized neutral services as an alternative path to assist attorneys and their clients in resolving business disputes.

SGS’s mediation and arbitration neutrals bring more than six decades of combined experience in all facets of business dispute resolution—from the perspective of both plaintiffs and defendants—to pragmatically and creatively help parties resolve their disputes so that they can get back to business.

Mediation of business disputes calls for a neutral who understands practical business decision making issues, specialized corporate laws, and the limitations of the court system. Thoughtful preparation and collaboration with the parties and their counsel are necessary to conduct a mediation that will frame complex issues, foster realistic assessment of the risk and rewards of litigation, and allow the parties to negotiate a settlement.

Arbitration of business disputes calls for a neutral who has experienced day in and day out all aspects of business-case resolution—the business contexts, contracts, laws, discovery considerations (especially as to electronically stored information), and trial and hearing factors that set business-case litigation and arbitration apart from other disputes.

SGS also offers other creative services to help parties efficiently resolve their disputes. Such services include, for example, early neutral evaluation as well as combined mediation-arbitration approaches where a mediator helps the parties narrow their dispute and develop a resolution process and an arbitrator resolves key legal or factual issues to facilitate further mediation or a final resolution of the dispute.