by Connie Rakowsky, Principal | Jul 17, 2018 | Early Mediation, General
Most of us avoid the conversation with our heirs for as long as possible. As decider of your estate plan, you have your reasons for the contents of plan. Often those reasons are a mystery to your survivors who have their own rational or irrational expectations. Each...
by Connie Rakowsky, Principal | Apr 25, 2018 | General
If there is a lawsuit or other legal proceeding pending, it will likely settle before trial. A very, very small percentage of cases go to trial these days. When the legal lines have just been drawn, it seems incongruous to stop drawing more legal lines. If you are...
by Connie Rakowsky, Principal | Oct 10, 2016 | General
Mediation often provides more acceptable, satisfying and long term resolution of conflicts than litigation. This may be due to the heightened personal involvement that parties experience in an effective mediation. The result reflects some “buy-in” by the parties,...
by Connie Rakowsky, Principal | Sep 8, 2016 | General
At last report, 75- 85% of all NH Court cases that were mediated, resulted in a settlement. This is true even where all prior attempts at settlement had failed, where the parties had spent substantial amounts of time and money preparing for a trial and where the...
