Mediation

Watch attorney Steve Lagoy, a professionally trained mediator, as he explains some of the benefits to business of the mediation process.

Why is mediation helpful? Mediation is both cost efficient and a time saver for all the parties involved in a dispute. With both parties setting the terms of the mediation as opposed to the Court, the disputing parties can determine where and when the mediation will take place. Mediation can also preserve already established business relationships, whereas those relationships are often irreparable when a case is decided in a jury trial.

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Watch Attorney Stephen Lagoy as he explains the qualities of a good mediator.

What are the qualities of a good mediator? A good mediator listens intently, understands human nature, and withholds evaluative judgment. A good mediator lets the mediation process unfold. A good mediator is patient.

For more information on how mediation can help you to resolve a family, business or other conflict, call Stephen Lagoy at 610-692-1371 or contact him at slagoy@utbf.com.

Watch this video, the second in a series, in which Steve Lagoy explains what mediation is and why you or your clients should consider using this facilitated negotiation process to resolve your legal conflict.

Attorney Stephen P. Lagoy is a partner in Unruh Turner Burke & Frees with offices located in West Chester, Malvern and Phoenixville, PA. Contact Steve Lagoy for more information on how you may benefit from the experience of a trained mediator.

Watch Steve Lagoy in this short video as he explains why you and your clients should use mediation to settle a legal dispute.

Individuals and corporations should consider using mediation as a way to resolve disputes outside of the courts.   In this short video, Attorney Stephen P. Lagoy describes what mediation is and how you can use mediation to solve a dispute without the time and expense of the judicial system.

Steve Lagoy is a partner in the law firm of Unruh Turner Burke & Frees, PC with offices in West Chester, Malvern, and Phoenixville, PA. For more information on how Steve Lagoy could assist you as an independent third party mediator, contact Steve Lagoy in our West Chester office.

By: Stephen P.  Lagoy

The parties to a dispute arising out of an “Embryo Adoption Agreement” have agreed to submit their case to mediation.  The fate of two frozen human embryos hangs in the balance.  Pursuant to the agreement, the donor couple provided four embryos to a reproductive center, two of which were implanted in the uterus of the donee mother in May 2009.  Two babies were born in January 2010.  The donee mother now wants to repeat the process with the remaining two embryos, but the donor couple wants to regain custody of them.  All parties to the dispute are Catholic and regard the embryos as children.  Although lawsuits have been filed in both St. Louis, Missouri and Alameda County, California, the parties hope that a mediator will help them reach an out of court settlement and can resolve the religious, moral and ethical questions their situation presents.  For more on the unusual issues the mediator will have to address, read the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

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By: Stephen P. Lagoy

Not surprisingly, the crash of Continental Flight 3407 on its approach to Buffalo, N.Y. on February 12, 2009 has spawned lawsuits by the families of the 45 passengers, four crew members, one off-duty crew member, and one person on the ground, who died in the crash. The lawsuits have been filed against Colgan Air; Pinnacle Airlines; Continental Airlines, the company under whose name Colgan was flying; and Bombardier Aviation Services, maker of the Dash 8 Q400 twin-engine turboprop. Recently, U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, who recently became the chief federal judge in Buffalo, assigned four local mediators to attempt to resolve the claims of the families of those killed. Mediation has been used extensively in Buffalo’s federal court since October 1995, when 400 lawyers came to the courthouse in hopes of clearing a logjam of 118 civil cases.

For more on the lawsuits the mediators will try to resolve, see http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf

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By: Stephen P. Lagoy

In the wake of the big War in Iraq, the country has become “the land of a hundred little wars.” American-trained mediators have come to play pivotal roles in resolving these local conflicts without bloodshed. Read the full story here:

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/wellesley

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