Does it Help your Case I Got one Coming up and I'm Scare

That's what I'm waiting on the Three thing

Yes 🥰 🙏 I have this Meditation Coming on I'm Scare

If we're strictly following the money, the mediator has the LEAST measurable conflict of interest amidst the professionals involved in the conflict (e.g. respective counsel). The mediator gets paid for the [typically] 1-day mediation event, [typically] at a fixed rate. There's nothing to "milk." If the mediation requires a future session, that's a bad mediator for accepting a case that isn't ready for mediation. The mediator can identify that during the pre-mediation screening. The lawyers, however, are incentivized to keep the billables going indefinitely, or until their mercenary status expires coinciding their client's depleted resources, or otherwise inability to pay. As a prospective attorney, it is not lost on me that lawyers are largely good for nothing, more often than not exacerbating the problem amidst the disputants. Most lawyers drink the advocacy Kool-Aid, wholly discarding the other merits of an exceptional attorney: advisor and counselor to avoid litigation, which is almost always in service to the client. There are exceptions to when litigation is necessary, but it's exactly that: an exception. Ideally, litigation ought to be a defensive measure, not offensive. Offense paints the client as litigious, a stain upon their reputation, and conveys the plaintiff's counsel as unreasonable for essentially picking a fight without having exhausted all other remedies. In the UK, you have your solicitors and barristers, the former a paper-pusher, the latter a litigator. A REAL lawyer is a defense litigator. Anything a solicitor can do, an astute business administrator can do. The problem in the States is that ANYONE with a law license can call themselves a "lawyer," but we all know there are lawyers [shakes head side-to-side] and then there are lawyers [nodding head up and down], the latter being FAR more rare. In the States at least, odds are, if you went to a bottom-rank, diploma-mill "law school," you are terrible at lawyering. I have come to the conclusion those people either wanted the prestige of being to concisely say they are a layer at a cocktail party and/or permit their parents to say their child is a lawyer at a cocktail party -- that's one hell of an expensive way to save face. Of course there are exceptions, and those poor souls are often fighting an uphill battle to differentiate themselves from their school's overall reputation. What a redundantly wasted effort, smh. Diploma mills should be shut down to correct the market, where lawyers are fewer and farther between, befitting higher billable rates because they can actually provide true societal value. It only takes 1 bogus suit brought against you to understand how many shitty lawyers are running around out there.

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How's it going?

twin cherry slowly.

@@NEMO-NEMO wow, it's been 3 months. Are you suing?

twin cherry yes, but who has successfully sued the USPS?

​@@NEMO-NEMO how did it ended up? Have you settled?

I went to my mediation alone. My ex had her dad and her lawyer. I was able to negotiate myself out of paying for no more than one hour. 3 hours later I walked out of that office with every box checked I wanted checked. It was fun.

I'm bout to go in mediation alone also, and she has my son and a lawyer.🥺

Bully 4 you!

I was surprised to see his name in Chris Voss's book

People like you come on here too....

He is excellent, well explanatory comunication between the lawyer and client is fundamental to resolve a dispute

Of course...Lawyers make more money by dragging out litigation

@ that s just one thing. It s the underlying belief in The Right OR Wrong paradigm that s detrimental to fair and effective problem solving.

There are lots of biblical principles here, maybe your interests aren't aligned

Sure!