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Business and complex litigation often gives rise to a diversity of risks and significant opportunity costs which are best handled through negotiation, mediation, and failing both, arbitration. Our attorneys practicing in this area have the broad base of negotiation, mediation, arbitration and trial experience which is necessary to be effective in the role of advocate, arbitrator or mediator. Experience is the best teacher, and we have acted as advocates and neutrals in cases involving complex specialized contracts, commercial construction, residential construction, financing and many other types of disputes.
Each of our directors engaged in mediation have been trained to act as mediators and bring their knowledge of business, the legal system, human nature and practical economics to each engagement.
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The arbitration and/or mediation of a significant personal injury case is a serious and, oftentimes, complicated matter. As the lawyer population increases, the profession sees many holding themselves out as "arbitrators" and "mediators." On a national level the profession has seen individuals who are not trained lawyers, attempting to function as arbitrators and mediators; most are just couriers of offers.
Mr. Addison has tried, mediated and arbitrated hundreds of severe personal injury cases over his thirty-plus year legal career. Not only has he "experienced the fire" of litigation, but along the way he has become sensitized to truly understanding "both sides of this fence" so as to become an extremely effective and successful settlement facilitator. A testament to his fairness and integrity in resolving matters is indicated by the fact that as many personal injury lawyers request his services as do defense lawyers, and his success rate on cases before him over the past five years is over 93%.
Choosing the wrong mediator wastes time and money. Choosing a mediator with knowledge, experience, compassion, integrity and imagination, and whose paramount goal is compromising and closing the case, is what every litigant deserves.
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Daniel Coker Horton & Bell offers
confidential, private alternative dispute resolution,
mediation and individual or panel arbitration processes
and services customized or tailored to fit case-specific
client needs in a variety of oil and gas, electric
utility and natural resources disputes.
Alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") services are
best provided, we believe, by qualified mediators
and arbitrators with specific experience in and detailed
knowledge of the subject matters at issue. DCH&B's
attorneys engaged in the provision of energy and
natural resources ADR services have almost 60 years
of combined experience in handling energy (oil and
gas and electricity) and natural resources matters.
Their qualifications extend, however, beyond their
subject matter knowledge and the practical experience
they have gained through their participation in arbitration
and mediation of energy and natural resources disputes
for clients; they have also obtained formal ADR training,
including training at the Strauss Institute for Dispute
Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law
and at institutes conducted by CPR's International
Institute for Dispute Prevention and Resolution in
New York City.
The goal of DCH&B's Energy and Natural Resources
ADR Group is to provide clients with innovative,
customized private and confidential dispute resolution
processes formulated, managed and conducted by experienced
and qualified energy and natural resources counsel;
and serving as party-appointed or neutral arbiters
or mediators to achieve time-efficient, cost-effective
administration and resolution of complex energy and/or
natural resources disputes. Our services can be structured
to meet these practice objectives by employing ADR
processes tailored to a given dispute, including
the provision of pre-ADR consultation; dispute evaluation
and risk analysis; facilitated multi-party negotiation
or business solutions; multi-regional and multi-party
dispute administration; mediation (private or parallel
to arbitral or litigation proceedings); arbitration
coordination with companion litigation; party-appointed
and neutral arbitrators; post-dispute resolution
management; arbitration award clarification, compliance
and enforcement proceedings; and arbitration appeals
and award reviews.
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The Mississippi Bar Association has adopted a mediation program for workers'
compensation. Our attorneys have been at the forefront of this program and were
among the first approved mediators for workers’ compensation matters.
In the state of Mississippi, a portion of the fee for workers’ compensation
mediation goes to the Kids' Chance Scholarship Fund. Established by the Workers'
Compensation section of the Mississippi Bar, this scholarship is awarded to children
whose parents experienced work-related injuries that resulted in permanent disability
or death.
In addition to their involvement as mediators, our attorneys have also been active
in fundraising for the Kids' Chance Scholarship and have served on the committee
that awards the scholarship to deserving recipients.
Since its inception, the mediation of workers' compensation claims has been very
successful and our attorneys remain leaders in providing mediation services for
workers’ compensation matters.
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