Former Malibu Attorney Launches Mediation Services After State Bar Rejects Rule Requiring Lawyers to Tell Clients of Less Costly Alternatives to Resolve Disputes Than By Litigation

After the California State Bar rejected a rule requiring lawyers to advise clients of less costly alternatives to litigation, Sam Birenbaum of Malibu, who practiced law for 28 years, was motivated to offer dispute resolution by mediation. Birenbaums experience in litigating and settling lawsuits over three decades applies his skilled method of engaging the disputants in a specific step-by-step process that allows them to realistically and intelligently assess their relative strengths and weaknesses. The results are a less stressful, less time consuming, and more economically sensible option. Birenbaum's mediation process also allows the participants to come to resolutions that they have a direct hand in creating, as opposed to having judges, juries, and lawyers dictate what they deserve under others' interpretation of complex laws and procedural rules.

Malibu, CA (PRWEB) September 15, 2004 -- When the California State Bar rejected a rule requiring lawyers to tell their clients of alternative methods of resolving disputes other than litigation, Sam Birenbaum, a former attorney who litigated and settled cases for three decades, launched "Malibu Mediation Services, LLC." What he calls a 'Win-Win" alternative to expensive and maddening litigation, and an option that allows disputants to determine their own fate as opposed to having lawyers, judges or juries dictate the terms of the resolution.

Birenbaum engages the participants who are in conflict in a specific step-by-step procedure that directs the parties in realistic and practical assessment of the relative strengths and weaknesses of their positions as well as eliciting common grounds and goals. The process is controlled and defined, but in less formal and less stressful surroundings, and at much less expense, than in court or formal arbitration. All discussions are strictly confidential by contractual terms.

Not only more economical and efficient than the litigation route, Birenbaum points out the time, travel, aggravation, frustration,uncertainty and disappointment that invariably results from any lawsuit are all avoided by completing a mediation that culminates in a private, as opposed to public setting, written binding agreement between the parties that their individual attorneys can review and put into final written form...after the parties have come to their own mutually agreed, "win-win" terms through the mediation.

Birenbaum presents a list of numerous disputes that can be mediated successfully, from family law to business to real estate conflicts, without stepping foot into a courthouse or spending tons of money for a cumbersome, inefficient confusing system of conflicting rules of law and procedure that are interpreted inconsistently by and through high-priced advocates and their support staffs, overworked judges and court personnel, in high anxiety, high cost settings.

The peace of mind and closure of successful mediation allows the participants to move forward positively in their lives with their families and interests undeterred by all-consuming litigation.

Contact:
Sam Birenbaum
Malibu Mediation Services
Phone: 310.386.2922
email: isthelaw@charter.net