The Trusted Road-map to Extraordinary Outcomes
One of my most demanding legal aid briefs in 1989 was a succession dispute that had been filed in 1974 when I was only thirteen. During the fifteen years the suit waited to land on my laps, the client’s file had grown to more than six inches wide, but with little to show for it except a myriad of applications and interim court orders. My client and her anniversaries were a second-generation of litigants, and just about to pass the baton to her son in light of her terminal illness. Even though she had fought many battles, the war had just begun. I couldn’t understand why a family of level-headed men and women could not agree on what I considered to be a straightforward set of inheritance claims in the context of settled rules of intestate succession.
Looking back today, I understand why. Few litigation lawyers would draw their warring clients to the reality of matters easily addressed by the Law of Succession and the accompanying rules on the basis of which there can be no two ways when the Court brings the war to an end. Yet the parties .and their counsel would not consider out-of-court settlement despite clear legal rules that point to the ultimate outcome. But that was more than thirty years ago.
Today, alternative dispute resolution mechanisms have taken the center-stage in providing party-controlled procedures and mutually-generated solutions to conflicting interests and disputes that might often seem intractable. Indeed, succession disputes that took decades to determine are easily resolved in a matter of hours, saving the litigants from needless legal costs, emotional distress and undue animosity among family members. You can now see why prudent legal experts make a conscious choice on what mechanisms to employ to maximize the benefits due to their clients.
Premier ADR Consultants work hand-in-hand with prudent executors, personal representatives and beneficiaries in contentious claims in succession disputes that result in strained relations and threaten family disintegration. We facilitate resolution of their disputes and claims to respective rights of inheritance by means of our transformative conflict management and dispute resolution strategies. We help disputants to embrace a consultative and collaborative approach to the administration of the estate in issue in a safe and peaceful environment with guaranteed privacy and confidentiality.
Our expeditious, cost-effective and party-controlled techniques guarantee consumer satisfaction resulting from voluntary and jointly generated win-win outcomes. We provide the best alternative to the all-familiar costly, time-consuming, adversarial and often emotive court litigation that only works to weaken or destroy family relations.
Our founder and managing consultant, Dr. K. I. Laibuta, is a chartered arbitrator and mediator. He has a wealth of professional experience spanning three decades in legal practice with more than two decades of practical experience in alternative dispute resolution. Dr. Laibuta is a skilled independent, fair and impartial conflict manager and dispute resolver, who values the parties’ right to equality of opportunity to freely state their respective legal positions and express their deep-seated feelings without fear or reservation. He facilitates joint resolution of all types of succession and property disputes in friendly, informal and voluntary mediation sessions in a non-judgmental manner that ensures unqualified respect and personal dignity of each disputant, which in turn guarantees trust and confidence in one another. We subscribe to the immutable principle that “No Conflict or Dispute is Intractable”.