Background
Stuart Sandweiss founded Legal Solutions Group and has spent decades in Michigan practice across bankruptcy, business and civil litigation. He has spent a great deal of time in rooms where two parties are a long way apart and somebody has to close the gap.
Sitting as a neutral
In a mediation Stuart is not acting as anyone’s lawyer. He does not represent either side, he does not give legal advice in the session, and no attorney–client relationship is created by booking him. That is worth stating flatly, because an attorney–mediator is the one situation where people most often assume otherwise.
When the Counsel Track earns its fee
Experience changes outcomes when a case has real legal texture: a filed matter with motion practice behind it, parties who both have counsel and a settlement posture, a business dispute where the numbers need reading, or a value high enough that a two-hour conversation is not going to cover it.
It changes outcomes much less when two people disagree about a fence. If that is your matter, the Direct Track will do the same job for about a third of the money, and we would rather tell you that than take the larger booking.
What is included
The flat session fee covers intake, the session itself, and a written memorandum of any terms reached. The first hour of document review is included; beyond that it is billed at $375 an hour, quoted and agreed before any of it happens.
Ask about the Counsel Track
Tell us the posture of the matter — filed or not, represented or not, roughly what is at stake — and we will tell you which track fits.
Book the Counsel Track.
Weekday sessions, flat fees, and a free intake call before anything is scheduled.