PREMi - Professional Resolution Experts of Michigan, LLC
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Published
May 30, 2025
Ensuring Client Rights in Mediation:
A Guide for Attorneys
By Robert E. L. Wright, Mediator & Arbitrator
Mediation is an increasingly utilized method for resolving disputes, offering clients a flexible, confidential, and self-determined approach to reaching agreements. Attorneys play a pivotal role in ensuring their clients are well-prepared, understand their rights, and navigate the mediation process effectively. The “Bill of Rights for Parties in Mediation,” provides a critical framework for protecting parties’ interests in mediation. Understanding these rights allows attorneys to better advocate for…
Mediator of the Month
Robert “Bob” Wright has a wealth of experience in ADR
as a seasoned and respected litigator, arbitrator, and mediator for more than 40 years. Recognized as a
statewide leader in the field of mediation, Bob has participated as either a neutral or a representative in ADR proceedings involving more than two thousand individuals and businesses in both business and personal disputes since 1983.
Bob customizes his mediation style to meet participants’ needs, helping them settle their differences quickly and economically, in a wide variety of disputes from business, bankruptcy, and employment matters, to family matters and even community public policy issues. In addition to his wealth of practical experience, he…
What is PREMi?
PREMi is an organization of attorney dispute resolution experts who have numerous years of experience in both conflict resolution processes and subject matter knowledge in many industries and disciplines.
What WE Do…
Courtroom litigation can be expensive in both dollars and time.
That’s why you need PREMi.
Mediation: For lasting resolutions
Why PREMi? PREMi’s independent mediators have years of experience successfully helping parties settle a wide variety of disputes. Mediation allows the parties to shape their own resolutions, resulting in agreements that last.
What is mediation? A PREMi…
Arbitration: A Streamlined process to reach a decision
PREMi can customize an arbitration process to your unique case. We are innate problem solvers with a full range of subject matter expertise, able to focus on the issues and facts in the case and determine the right process. Feel free to call us Today.
Med-arb: An adaptation to conventional arbitration
Med-Arb is a combination of both resolution processes – Mediation and Arbitration. The parties agree in advance that they will first try to resolve the matter by mediation, and if they are not successful in resolving the dispute, then a PREMi…
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Resolution Expert
PREMi is prepared to help you find
the right ADR professional – the best fit for
process and subject matter expertise-to meet
the unique needs of your dispute.
Contact Executive Director Bill Weber Who
will walk you through your options.
Plan a First Meeting
Whether by text, email, phone, video conference, or in person, PREMi will facilitate the first contact among attorneys and parties to help you design a dispute resolution process to fit your particular dispute. Do you need a facilitator, evaluator, negotiation coach, or an arbitrator? How many sessions? Who should attend? A PREMi professional can help you answer these critical questions and more.
Find the Right Mediator
A legal dispute can be one of the most difficult experiences a person may ever deal with. It is important that your mediator is a “good fit” for all participants and that the mediator is effective in resolving the dispute.
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Phone
248-385-3488
Address
PREMi
PO Box 191
Birmingham, MI 48012-0191