During the Initial Status Conference before the trial judge, you declined the options to mediate the dispute prior to discovery or to refer the dispute to Arbitration.

Now, as the time for the trial approaches, each side will have spent large sums of money trying to discern the most sympathetic type of jury. Years after the lawsuit was first filed, the parties will be sitting in the courtroom waiting for jury selection to begin. More money will have been spent defending this case than the plaintiff was seeking when the lawsuit was first filed.

Many questions come to mind:

How could you have benefitted by submitting the dispute to Mediation?

How could you have benefitted by submitting the dispute to Arbitration?

What were the risks of submitting the dispute to Mediation?

What were the risks of submitting the dispute to Arbitration?