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Resolve Mediation Services, Inc.

United States 2024

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Combining Litigation Skills with a Facilitative Approach that Recognizes that Mediation and any Resolution should be Driven by the Parties, not the Mediator.

Simeon H. Baum, President of Resolve Mediation Services, blends a substantial background in litigation with experience in and commitment to non-directive, party driven mediation. Mr. Baum has successfully mediated over 1,000 disputes. He has been active since 1992 as a neutral in dispute resolution, assuming the roles of mediator, neutral evaluator and arbitrator in a variety of cases, including the highly publicized mediation of the Studio Daniel Libeskind-Silverstein Properties dispute over architectural fees relating to the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, and Trump’s $ 1 billion suit over the West Side Hudson River development. He was selected for New York Magazine’s 2005 - 2014 “Best Lawyers” and “New York Super Lawyers” listings for ADR, and Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer the Year” for ADR in New York for 2011, 2014, and 2018.

Empowering Parties

The Resolve mediator earns trust and credibility from treating the parties with respect, using active listening skills, demonstrating genuine caring and engaging in substantial preparation. Mediation is not about "arm twisting" or other coercive settlement methods. Rather, the mediator empowers the parties and assists them in finding ways to resolve the dispute in a manner consistent with their own needs, interests and standards.

Legal Expertise

While not acting as a lawyer in the mediation, the Resolve mediator comes to the table with substantial experience as a litigator. Analytic skills and familiarity with the litigation process enable the mediator to speak the language of counsel and meaningfully explore with counsel and parties their best and worst alternatives to a negotiated settlement in light of a nuanced legal backdrop.

Listening Skills

The focus of a mediation must be the parties and their concerns. This requires the ability to open communications and encourage an open exchange of information, perceptions, ideas and feelings. The mediator thus seeks to elicit the parties expression of not only their positions, but their needs, interests and, indeed, themselves. Open expression is engendered by a tone of candor, neutrality, non-directive attention to the parties, the ability to rephrase and reframe in ways that let one party hear while the other party feels heard.

Problem Solving

The end in sight is dispute resolution, if the parties wish it. The mediator flexibly explores options with the parties, either jointly utilizing shared information, or in caucus, where parties are free to explore options and disclose information, needs, wishes and concerns in strict confidence.

Simeon H. Baum, President of Resolve Mediation Services, Inc., bringing to the table 30 years experience as a litigator and substantial experience as a mediator, employs a non-directive, investigative style, utilizing litigation expertise to help parties arrive at their own analysis of strengths and weaknesses and move into areas of interests in search for creative ways of resolving their dispute.

Rankings

Resolve Mediation Services, Inc. is metro ranked in 2 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.

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Metro Rankings

New York City
Tier 1 for Arbitration
Tier 1 for Mediation

About Our Clients

Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" for ADR in New York 2011 and 2014.

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Regional Rankings

New York City
Tier 1 for Arbitration
Tier 1 for Mediation

Practice Areas

The below are areas of legal specialty volunteered by the firm and do not designate a specialty in which a Best Law Firms ranking is held.
  • Arbitration
  • Mediation

Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®

Resolve Mediation Services, Inc. has 1 lawyers recognized for individual performance in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. By receiving this Best Lawyers recognition from their peers for their professional excellence, these lawyers made Resolve Mediation Services, Inc. eligible for evaluation for Best Law Firms rankings. For almost two decades, Best Lawyers has awarded these singular accolades, making them the foundation of our Best Law Firms awards. Read more about our Best Lawyers process here.
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