MISSION STATEMENT/PHILOSOPHY

At Minda Goldberg Mediation, our mission is to help people and businesses reach voluntary dispute resolutions that are cost-effective and sensible.  We strive to help each party understand the other’s perspective in a way that enables the parties to resolve their disputes by seeing their way to a mutually agreeable resolution.  Where the parties may wish or need to have an ongoing relationship, we seek to guide the parties to achieve solutions that enable them to work with each other in the future. 

We believe that a mediated solution is far superior to a judicial resolution.  In litigation, after much expense and time, a court tells you your answer.  In a well conducted mediation, the mediator helps you to achieve your own solution, confidentially, quickly and inexpensively. Because you achieve your own solution, mediation can provide a flexible, creative result that a court decision can not provide. Moreover, since any outcome is 100% voluntary, there is little downside in pursuing mediation.

We are prepared to help at any stage of a dispute.  We highly recommend early mediation, before the parties become entrenched in their positions, before they have spent extraordinary amounts of time, money and emotion, and in order to enable the parties to move on to other, more productive endeavors.  We are, of course, prepared to step in at any stage, even on the eve of trial, to help achieve a mutual solution rather than a court-imposed solution.