© 2010 Sigrid Caroline Schroder. All Rights Reserved.
Nip Crisis in the Bud
Don’t brood, don’t stew in trouble; resolve your differences through early-stage mediation before crisis can get a grip.
All too often, a business has been mired in brewing trouble for months or years before anyone consults a lawyer. Trouble may come as open conflict, or it may lurk in misunderstood intentions, regulations, terms, reps, and warranties. Trying hard to ignore the problems, businesses can even sail smoothly onward amid success, completely overlooking the impending crisis. However, few problems simply melt away. Eventually the deferred crisis comes. The business may suddenly crash into a wall or may stumble painfully forward into trauma. And all too often, it’s too late for a lawyer to develop a real solution. The next step is litigation or a relationship or strategy which simply falls apart, with costs. The process server arrives at the door, or the early warnings start. The goods are not delivered, the team falls apart, or some facility must be closed. Cash flow lurches to the negative; valued talent leaves; lay offs become inevitable.
Just as often, you don’t have to go there. Recognize the trouble early for what it is and stave off crisis. Whether redirecting strategy or seeking rapprochement, early-stage mediation can get you where you need to be. Mediating differences early on can make sure the legal complaints remain a gleam in some unmet litigator’s eye. Through guided negotiations, independent evaluation, or business conciliation, you can achieve a workable solution. It’s much cheaper than litigation.
Never forget that there is settlement value to every lawsuit. You don’t want to pay for pleadings. Try mediation early on and save the money and risk for execution of a real strategy.
© 2010 Sigrid Caroline Schroder. All Rights Reserved.
In Litigation, Bad Facts Mean ‘You Lose’
When lawyers know their client is going to lose, they like to say euphemistically that the client has “bad facts”. Much of what lawyers do is making up for bad facts as best they can–after the horse has left the barn. For better –and best– results, you need to be “proactive” in judging the whole-world reality: you need to understand the facts, factors, forces, and figures from multiple perspectives from the first so that you are not left with bad facts, bad judgments, bad decisions, and bad, not good, risk. I get you that clarity.
So that you can focus on your goals, together we work quickly to assess the reality of your world. Together we compare and contrast what you think and hope with what is real. We tease out the active and sleeping problems and identify real opportunities and risks however remote they might seem–or you might hope.
We derive new possibilities and prioritize what comes next. We listen and watch. We isolate real functional irregularities and operational anomalies. We analyze the dynamics as well as the incidents. We build creative solutions. We follow through on new information and build on our analysis and extend our plans and solutions. We get technical.
You gain a realistic picture of where you are and where you can go. I do not leave your execute and integrate on your own. Together we balance benefits and costs and build a sustainable path.
Deal with change before change sets its own path through your business. I know what keeps you awake at night – or should. Preventative Medicine for Your Business.
Please Explore Other Pages from the Drop Down Menu Above
