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ABOUT MEDIATION
Looking to resolve a difficult dispute?
Litigation is not always the way to go. As a trial lawyer with over 36 years of experience trying and litigating complex commercial cases, combined with extensive and varied mediation training, I bring solutions to quickly, effectively and inexpensively resolve conflict. Sometimes parties want or need input from a mediator with substantive as well as process expertise, welcoming difficult questions and opinions on their likelihood of success should they choose to try their case.
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Business, Negligence and Family Disputes Resolved Effectively
Often a business dispute, such as breach of warranty or commercial property foreclosure, can seem unresolvable without litigation. I can tell you from experience that there are alternatives. Similarly, domestic relations conflicts, conservatorship issues and elder care management conflicts can be resolved efficiently, less costly and effectively with mediation.
Why Joe Basta?
Broad Trial and Litigation Experience
Beginning as federal judicial law clerk in 1974, and after that for over 34 years with a large, Detroit-based firm, I have tried and litigated hundreds of state and federal lawsuits before judges and juries in the trial and appellate courts of Michigan, the Midwest, and beyond.
NOTES FROM JOE
Football fairness: Lessons for ADR?
“It’s not fair!” How many times have mediators and negotiators heard that refrain? Whether from the mouth of the negotiator across the table or the politician seeking higher taxes, everyone...more
Talk Less, Listen More, Negotiate Better
A recent Wall Street Journal article brought home to me again the importance of listening for successful negotiating. Journalist Masada Siegel reported interviewing Glen Cohen, a retired hostage negotiator for...more
Who’s Sorry Now?
The season is upon us. Alas, not summer but the season of apologies. Like pollen in the air, apologies proliferate. Brought to the forefront by the #MeToo movement, apologies are...more
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: How We Create Our Own Conflicts
…And How We Might Stop Doing So Why does an athlete who languishes on one team flourish when traded to another? Why does a move from one school to another...more