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Christopher G. Hill | Construction Law Musings | November 18, 2015<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll bet you\u2019re thinking by now that I have beaten the mediation drum to death and that I wouldn\u2019t have any more praise for the process than I have heaped upon it here at this corner of the construction law \u201cblawgosphere.\u201d\u00a0 Well, just about every time I am involved with the process, whether acting in my capacity as a Virginia Supreme Court certified mediator, or as counsel to a client seeking to resolve a matter and move on with the business of making money, I become more convinced that mediation can work in even the most contentious of situations.<\/p>\n

What do I mean by \u201cwork?\u201d\u00a0 The obvious answer is that mediation<\/a> \u201cworks\u201d when the parties come up with a solution to their problem.\u00a0 In most instances, the solution involves money changing hands.\u00a0 After all, it is money that is usually the tangible and outwardly driving force behind a dispute.\u00a0 Money is also what a court or arbitrator (in most cases) will be awarding to one side or the other at the end of what is likely to be an expensive process.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, often money is far from the only driver of a dispute.\u00a0 Whether it be a feeling of being slighted or a lack of communication that caused friction, the parties most likely have other \u201cgrievances\u201d that need to be worked out.\u00a0 In contrast to litigation where many of these non-monetary and non-contractual issues would be considered irrelevant, in mediation<\/a> the parties get to \u201cvent\u201d and air their thoughts on these less tangible issues.\u00a0 A good mediator encourages this sort of back and forth and knows that if these issues can be worked out, settlement can also be achieved.<\/p>\n

Another driver for a monetary dispute can quite frankly be that money got tight and one party may be unable to pay the other as required by the contract.\u00a0 In court (aside from in bankruptcy court), the inability to pay is not an excuse and not relevant.\u00a0 In the \u201creal world\u201d this fact is highly relevant because a judgment is only as good as the ability to collect it.\u00a0 The mediation process also can and should take this fact into account and allow the parties to be creative to get past this hurdle.<\/p>\n

Finally…<\/p>\n

To finish reading this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Hill | Construction Law Musings | November 18, 2015 I\u2019ll bet you\u2019re thinking by now that I have beaten the mediation drum to death and that I wouldn\u2019t have any more praise for the process than I have heaped upon it here at this corner of the construction law \u201cblawgosphere.\u201d\u00a0 Well, just about… Continue reading Another Reason to Love Construction Mediation (Read: Why Mediation Works)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,164,436],"tags":[80,79],"class_list":["post-885770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbitration","category-construction-dispute","category-dispute-resolution-2","tag-dispute-resolution","tag-mediation-2","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nAnother Reason to Love Construction Mediation (Read: Why Mediation Works) - 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