Practicing law in CoronAmerica presents major challenges as a new normal emerges. To the digital, AI, privacy, confidentiality, and cybersecurity challenges, you now face new justice access frictions which decrease the efficiency of your practice. Social distancing and restrictive access court-related or court services takes your time and increases costs to the detriment of both you and your clients. You must “reboot” your practice and become more innovative in response to the pandemic. You must adapt, adopt,  and master Zoom, Webex, ( or equivalent ) online dispute resolution platforms.

Virtual ARBITRATION & MEDIATION

Let me answer your online arbitration and mediation engagement questions. I provide fixed-fee, expedited arbitration for cases with demands of from $0 – $25,000.00 and $25,000.00 – $50,000.00 following my online model. Visit the Reserve Arbitration page for a fixed fee pdf form.

Arbitration and mediation are more useful than ever before. And video-assisted technology offered by Zoom and Webex are accepted tools for leveraging your dispute resolution tools. While no two controversies are identical, all disputes have common features with macro and micro issues of law, procedure, and risk assessment influenced by feelings, finances, and considerations of the future. Each situation requires a thoughtful evaluation of the best way to increase the likelihood of a timely solution of your controversy whether it be by negotiation, mediation, arbitration or some form of litigation.

With forty-eight years experience in the trial courts, private practice, and as an arbitrator and mediator, former North Carolina Superior & District Court Judge Chase Saunders brings extensive experience to problem assessment and dispute resolution processes. ViewResume.

Services offered: Arbitration, Mediation, Case Consulting, Special Master for Discovery Matters, and Umpire. 

Alternative dispute resolution services include the private and confidential mediation of state and federal court cases represented by counsel as well as private matters involving unrepresented business owners or families. Services include the private and confidential arbitration of business and tort cases as well as small business ownership and operations matters. It includes umpire services used for the resolution of insurance claims disputes. Referee or special master services may be used to resolve discovery or business operational or wind-up issues. Services also include consulting with attorneys on cases or case assessment for attorneys and individualized, dispute resolution process design.  See Case Experience . It also includes the development of corporate dispute resolution methods and approaches to prevent litigation in the first instance!

Conflict resolution services offer an economical model for use in working through business and personal problems. State and federal trial courts require their use; however, they are also available to businesses and individuals in advance of litigation. They are an alternative to the contact sport of litigation-by-jury-trial. Services are available for your use with binding and non-binding choices of outcomes. A conflict resolution process model can be discussed, designed, and structured to help meet your individual needs before you decide to sue or get sued and in the event you are sued.

Attorneys understand and can explain the  cost-benefit and risk analyses associated with “taking your case to the Supreme Court”! They counsel clients that how you first choose to address your legal problems has a lot to do with how they get resolved. Your choice of how to resolve them economically and within a reasonable time should be important to you.  See Rates.

•  Contact me by email to present your problem at chase@chasesaunders.com
•  Mediation or Arbitration at your office or in the Courthouse or at the Mecklenburg County Bar Center