Mediation works. The St. Louis Mediation Center provides expertise, surroundings and experience in the settlement of lawsuits. When our expertise is combined with attorneys and parties who are willing to listen and compromise their positions, the result is settlement of a lawsuit.

A trial is state sponsored arbitration. The courts can only resolve cases by either stating that a party is or is not responsible for the happening of an event. In most cases, if the court finds that a party is responsible for the happening of an event it declares how much in dollars and cents the court values the damage caused by the event. The remedies available to parties in court are restricted to those the legislature and appellate courts have approved. Mediation encourages extrajudicial remedies.

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Mediation is cost efficient and saves parties and attorneys time and money. Most cases will settle in one mediation session. A jury trial requires an average of 3.5 days of actual trial time and an additional 10 days of preparation time (the national average is 3 days preparation for each day of a jury trial). Add to this post trial motions and appeals and the costs of a trial can easily add up to staggering amounts. At the end of one day of mediation, a case is settled.