Sheppard, Rosen, Uziel and Sussman actively assists parties by moving them towards resolution of their disputes through Mediation, Arbitration and other creative dispute resolution techniques.
We provide both the forum and location for both parties to come together in an effort to achieve an amicable and mutually agreeable solution to their disputes.
Since 1996, Robert Sheppard has served as a private Mediator helping litigants resolve contested litigation cases, in particular complex real estate or contentious landlord/tenant disputes. His mediation and negotiation skills, has earned him wide respect in the legal community. Robert Sheppard has enjoyed an exceptionally impressive record for resolving contested disputes between landlords and tenants, disputes between neighbors, disputes with real estate agents, and disputes between parties claiming conflicting interests to real estate. In 1999, he was asked to join "The Real Estate Neutrals" - a select group of experienced real estate Mediators in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Sheppard's reasonable rates for mediation services have saved litigants thousands of dollars from more costly and less efficient Judicial and Arbitration Mediation Services.
Besides being a respected private Mediator, the firm's senior partner, Robert Sheppard, is a court- approved Arbitrator and has presided over 500 settlement conferences and trials as a "pro tem" judge in the San Francisco courts.
Our firm's mediation and arbitration services offer parties to a legal dispute a quick, inexpensive and private resolution of matters that are in, or approaching, litigation. Our firm's approach emphasizes prompt, independent, creative and practical solutions to disputes.
We aid in the settlement negotiations of parties with many different types of disputes, we resolve these conflicts without the parties having to bear the burden and expense of a long, draining, drawn out trial.
We effectively provide an impartial third party facilitator that both parties can trust. Our mediators do not take sides against any party in the mediation, the mediator does not usurp the parties' rights to disclose, nor will the mediator disclose confidential information. The mediator preserves the integrity of the proceedings in all ways.