Whitfield Mediation Services

Whitfield Mediation Services Mediation is a preferred method to allow the resolution to ongoing disputes. Mediation of a conflict should always be your first choice.

It is the shorter, less expensive, and, most likely, faster route to a resolution. Using Mediation, one might discover a middle ground that will work for everyone. "Going to court" should be your last avenue. Consider the time, stress, litigation costs, and then a decision that might not work for you.

11/01/2020

Being a Mediator trying to resolve bitter disputes/differences between people is a very special skill set.
It isn’t about who is right and who is wrong. I am not an advocate, and certainly not a judge. I do understand how to find that path to “Forward” when you feel you are stuck in neutral.
Mediation is about finding an acceptable middle ground everyone can work with.

01/02/2020

As we ring in 2020, my business of Mediation still serves this County. I specialize in real estate disputes but also have excellent experience in everything from small claims to neighbor harassment. If you have conflict in your life, there is an alternative to legal bills. You have the option to avoid attorneys and court trials. If all parties are willing to sit down and make a sincere effort to "fix things", I can help you arrive at a mutually beneficial written agreement.
Call me before things get too far out of hand.

06/15/2019

I have not posted something for a few weeks.

This week I put more hours into my Mediation practice. I saw the courtrooms of Alameda filled once again with contentious and emotion-filled people.

I am not a fan of people who use social media inappropriately.

This is advice that needs to sink into the brain of the younger generations (20-50). Your social media posts are not as private as you have convinced yourself to believe. The selfies of your socially inappropriate behavior, and captions, can and do come back to haunt you in ways than you never imagined. They will be freely interpreted to suit another persons needs when it suits them.

Texts that you post when you are completely mad at someone, using foul language out of hate, maybe then adding pictures, will all be printed out page by page for others to see and judge.

I see this in court all the time. Dozens of pages of text, pictures blown up of graphic images, and more. I am sure every person involved never expected it to become so public, but it does.

Arguments, jobs searches, or friend requests? Those posts you think don’t have consequences, they do. Most often you don’t even get to explain your side of the story. That opportunity just sailed away.

I hope you share this issue, even if just in a future discussion with friends and family.
Civility is a habit only when you practice it every day.

05/23/2019

More states are embracing Mediation as a normalized initial step to try and settle conflict before commencing a court trial

05/14/2019

When you cannot solve something on your own, there is a less expensive alternative to hiring lawyers and going through a lengthy court trial.

Consider Alternative Dispute Resolution. A good Mediation can often result in a solution that reflects a “win-win” for everyone. It reflects a goal that has something acceptable for everyone involved

03/03/2019

I don’t typically post many things to this site, but the past two years have been very fulfilling.
200+ mediations have been completed. Every time out brings new faces, fresh challenges, and every type of personality you can imagine.
Online disputes, real estate differences, auto claims, construction defects, contract disputes, landlord-tenant, billing disputes, neighbor & family harassment, physical damage, elder abuse claims, financially and physical.
It certainly has kept my mind sharp.
If I get one thing right in my life, I would like to know that I have made a positive difference to others.

Whatever you may think or perceive, Mediation of Disputes works.

07/27/2018

I concluded two mediation cases yesterday.
The first started with a man who sat in front of me with arms folded, all his paperwork in front of me, and definitely tense over the impending dispute. About 90 minutes later, with an agreement in hand that he felt was fair he left talking to the other party smiling and exchanging stories
The second involved an older man and a young man with a two year history of intermittent of neighbor interaction finally resulting in physical confrontation. This took almost three hours but ended in the younger man extending his hands with a smile and said “start over...friends?”. The old man smiled and said “happily, friends” and shook his hand and the tension was broken. They left as completely different people from the ones I met earlier in the afternoon.
These cases really highlighted a very special day

07/25/2018

My mediation experience continues to grow at a very rapid pace. Whether your dispute is small or large, please know that if a confidential mediation settlement discussion is a possibility to avoid further litigation, this is a route you should strongly consider.

Ask yourself a simple question:
If I could sit down and have a neutral person facilitate a possible “win-win” end to our dispute now, allowing me to peacefully end this, would I be better off?”

Call me.

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Brentwood, CA
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