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Why Mediation Tends To Be Less Expensive Than Lawyers
Mediation tends to be cheaper than lawyers for several reasons:
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One professional. You have hired only one professional -- the mediator -- instead of two.
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Lower fees. Mediators who were not formerly lawyers tend to charge less than
lawyers. They don't have that expensive (and mostly irrelevant) law school cost to cover.
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Less formality. With lawyers, you're frequently spending time preparing intermediate court filings. You
don't have that with mediators.
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More directness. If you want to discuss an issue, and you're mediating, you can call
the spouse and discuss it. Or, with the mediator in the room, you can go back and forth. With
lawyers in the middle, you call your lawyer, who calls the other lawyer, who talks to your
spouse, who responds to his lawyer, who calls your lawyer, who passes the response
on to you. It's a clumsier system, designed for protection of the weakest clients, and
of the lawyers, but not for efficiency.
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