Mediation is a less stressful and less expensive alternative to going to trial. Instead of sitting in front of a Judge and/or Jury waiting on their decision for your case, you will sit in front of a mediator and make your own decisions for your case. There are no restrictions on what you may request from your opponent and everything you say within this meeting will be held confidential and cannot be used against you in the event of a subsequent trial. The level of confidentiality in mediation, required by Chapter 44 of the Florida Statutes, makes it easier to express what’s on your mind in a respectful way. Although you cannot expect to walk away from mediation with everything you want, your mediator is there to help communicate your position in the best way possible to achieve most of what you want. The greatest thing about mediation is that you have the freedom to deny or accept, at your discretion, what is offered to you.
