Law Office of Eric Omstead
Contact me in Redding, California, at 1-866-621-4950

 

Solutions To Your Legal Disputes

 

1135 Pine Street, Suite 215

                    Redding, CA 96001-0750                  


If you're on Interstate 5, take the Highway 44 West / Highway 299 West exit and cross the bridge.  Just after you cross the bridge, the road you are on becomes Shasta Street.  Where you see Shasta Regional Medical Center on your left, turn RIGHT on East Street heading north.  After just one block, you will come to the intersection of East Street and Eureka Way.  My office is on the second floor of the large Pine Street School Plaza office complex at the intersection of East Street and Eureka Way.    

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If you're coming from Weaverville or the west side of Redding, head east on Eureka Way, pass the intersection with Court Street and take the overpass for the railroad tracks.  Continue heading east on Eureka Way, passing the intersection with California Sreet. Follow the signs as if you're going to head toward the bridge to Interstate 5, that is, turn RIGHT on South Market Street / Highway 299 East and turn LEFT after just one block where you must turn eiher right or left. Then, after just one block, turn LEFT on Pine Street and proceed to the intersection of Pine Street and Eureka Way. There, you will see a sign for Pine Street School Plaza, the building in which my office is located. 

 

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      Mediation

Before everyone spends tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours in a lawsuit, or if trial is approaching and attorneys' fees and other expenses are about to skyrocket, all sides can agree to hire a mediator and split the cost.  The mediator's job is to help the parties communicate by listening to each party's concerns and impediments to settlement, maintain an atmosphere in which every effort is made to avoid increasing hostilities, and make every reasonable effort to ensure that each party is heard and informed. A mediator cannot, however, give you or anyone else legal advice or legal opinions, as the mediator must remain neutral.  For this reason, you might want to have an attorney present to advise you at the mediation. 

The goal of mediation is not to persuade you to settle.  Instead, the goal is to ensure that every party is aware of his or her options and has enough information and time to make a decision that will remain acceptable to the parties a week later, a month later, and a year later. 

Mediation is especially useful for disputes involving smaller amounts of money, such that the attorney's fees for each side could easily exceed the amount of money either side might obtain through a lawsuit and trial.

The rates I charge for mediation will reflect the amount of money in dispute.  That way, the parties can have meaningful access to the dispute resolution process in smaller cases.  

If you have an attorney representing you, but you are concerned about the cost and duration of litigation or negotiations that lead nowhere, talk to your attorney about hiring a mediator and splitting the cost with the other side. Mediation is often the best way to resolve your dispute, and sometimes the only way to resolve your dispute if you cannot afford a trial, cannot take weeks away from your business or job to attend a trial, or cannot afford the huge amounts of money invariably spent on depositions, discovery, expert witnesses, motions, preparation, and trial.

 

Also, mediation will allow YOU and the other parties  --- not a judge or twelve strangers on a jury --- to decide  how the dispute will be resolved.
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Law Office of Eric Omstead
1135 Pine Street, Suite 215
Redding, CA 96001-0750
Toll Free: (866) 621-4950
Fax: (530) 247-1849
Cell: (530) 355-3758