Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Nobody likes having someone else make a decision for them in a court room. It can be expensive, slow, stressful and often un-necessary. Clients may find that a trial decision is not what they expected.
This is why our lawyers have made it a point to become trained in techniques for negotiating a fair settlement. Sometimes negotiations include meeting and persuading the other party’s representative, mediations, settlement conferences and other methods for getting the maximum recovery for our client.
In mediations, a neutral expert is the mediator, who uses their skills to help the parties to come to a satisfactory settlement. In judicial settlement conferences (also called “pre-trials”), a judge will review the case. The judge assists by providing their opinion about the case, their view of fair settlement or other assistance in preparing for trial. If the case does not settle, then the pre-trial judge is not permitted to be the judge at the trial.
We try very hard to get our client’s cases settled, and our firm’s lawyers are well-trained and experienced in our goal to achieve maximum recovery under the law.
Sometimes that means our firm’s lawyers will give advice that a settlement offer is not good enough and that trial is necessary. Our trial lawyers are among the best in Ontario. Stanley M. Tick, Q.C. & Pheroze Jeejeebhoy are certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as specialists in Civil Litigation.