Integrated Resolution Program
What is the Integrated Resolution Program?
The program harnesses the flexibility and creativity of mediation with the guidance and insights of independent, forensic analysis to identify solutions to business disputes to allow business to proceed while reducing legal spend and exposure. The program offers a one-day, flat fee resolution service that aims to resolve business disputes worth less than $5 million.
Why is an integrated offering preferable?
Parties want their business problems solved, not prolonged, so that they can get back to business. The integrated model brings together the resources that can facilitate dispute resolution efficiently. Mediators are skilled in helping parties find solutions, and because these disputes often involve disagreements over the losses at issue, an independent forensic expert can speed solving that disagreement. The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) has over four decades of experience in resolving disputes through mediation. FTI Consulting is a leader in providing forensic expertise to help determine the losses at issue.
The Integrated Resolution Program offers fast, low-cost commercial dispute resolution
For disputes below $5 million, the Integrated Resolution Program provides small and medium-sized businesses access to leading dispute resolution experts who quickly and easily guide them to creative solutions and move their business forward. The Program combines the resources of CPR, Legal Innovators and FTI Consulting’s forensic valuation and loss assessment services to help businesses prevent and resolve legal conflicts. The team assists businesses by applying the contractual and legal principles implicated by the claims at issue, identifying the losses that may be at issue, and then seeking mutually-agreed upon creative solutions for moving forward. Some of the common commercial relationships in which businesses may face claims or need to assert them are:
OUR INNOVATIVE PROGRAM
Each participating organization in the Mediation Program contributes to the unique aspects of this comprehensive mediation program
Mediations
Low cost, fixed-fee mediations conducted by skilled and creative mediators
Neutral Loss Assessment
Neutral economic loss assessment provided by FTI Consulting to inform the mediators
Neutral Bench Memo
Neutral legal background memo on relevant contractual and legal principles provided by Legal Innovators lawyers to support the mediators
CPR Administration
Administration, mediation procedure and appointment of experienced mediators
provided by CPR
Assistance in Finalizing
Settlement Agreements
Mediator will assist both parties in reaching a settlement and in documenting its terms in a memorandum of understanding
Remote Video Mediation
Mediations will be conducted remotely using videoconferencing technology and may be conducted at FTI offices, to the extent health, safety considerations and space permit
One Stop Mediation — How It Works
- Contact your counter-party and agree to mediate your business dispute pursuant to the CPR Mediation Procedure for the CPR-FTI-Legal Innovators Flat Fee Mediation Program by filling out a Mediation Submission Agreement.
- Together with your counter party complete our Mediation Submission Agreement.
- Make payment.
- You will receive additional documents to complete and submit.
- We will inform you of your Mediator who will then confirm a time and date for the mediation.
- All mediations will be conducted via video conference unless the parties prefer to conduct the mediation at FTI offices, to the extent health, safety considerations and space permit.
- At the conclusion of the mediation, assuming a settlement has been reached, the mediator will assist the parties in drafting a preliminary MOU that the parties will sign before the parties separate. Thereafter, the parties can choose, if they want, to prepare a settlement document incorporating all of the settlement terms.
OUR TEAM OF PARTNERS
CPR Dispute Resolution harnesses the thought leadership and output of CPR’s think tank, the CPR Institue, in providing independent ADR services — mediation, arbitration, early neutral evaluation, dispute resolution boards and others — through innovative and practical rules and procedures through CPR’s panel of Distinguished Neutrals.
For more information, visit cpradr.org
FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk, and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational, and transactional.
For more information, visit fticonsulting.com
Legal Innovators transforms how law firms and corporate legal departments approach the recruitment, hiring, pricing, diversity, and inclusion of today’s junior legal talent.
For more information, visit legal-innovators.com
Get in touch with us to learn more
Our one-day program gives you access to the top mediation experts at a reasonable flat fee.
Feel free to reach us at mediationprogram@legal-innovators.com or by submitting the contact form below: