We work with you to reduce the cost of divorce by focusing on solutions and avoiding costly litigation.
Fighting over children can get expensive when you involve lawyers and have uncertain outcomes in litigation.
Negotiating changes to finalize a transaction or avoiding litigation post-closing save time and money.
Medical bills, past due utility payments and even credit card debt and bank loans can be resolved through mediation.
We work with all parties involved to develop a plan that avoids the cost and time delays of litigation.
We help claimants and providers reach amicable settlements that are fast and fair.
We gladly offer free consultation to every client. We want you to be sure Niemala Mediation is the right choice for YOU.
With the most ★★★★★ Five Star Reviews in the Northland, Niemala Mediation leads the way.
We are available to mediate in-person, online over the phone or any other way to meet your needs and concerns.
We have helped clients settle disputes ranging from interpersonal conflicts to complex business matters.
Jeff specializes in civil and family disputes, debt collection and settlement and enforcing judgments. Prior to attending law school, Jeff was a wildland firefighter in the MNDNR fire section, aviation branch as an aircraft base manager, primarily working with private, government and military rotor-wing assets throughout the United States in direct suppression of wildfire and support of natural disaster relief.
Education
Grand Rapids High School 1997
The Paralegal Institute (Paralegal) 2006
Brighton College (Legal Studies) 2019
Northwestern California University School of Law (J.D.) preasent
Licensed (Minnesota Department of Commerce)
Debt Collection Agency
Debt Settlement Agency
Qualified (Minnesota Rule 114)
Mediation, Civil and Family
Arbitration, Civil (pending)
Board of Directors
Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Risk Retention Group (2017-present)
Minnesota Paralegal Association
United Way 1000 Lakes (2019-present)
Membership
Minnesota State Bar Association (ADR, paralegal, law student section)
Minnesota Paralegal Association
California State Bar Association (law student section)
International Council for Online Dispute Resolution
American Justice Foundation
Equisettle Affiliate Mediator
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Family disputes can be emotionally exhausting and extremely expensive. In Minnesota, most family law matters are subject to mediation. By attempting to mediate first, you will avoid the expense of attorneys fees and may even arrive at a settlement of the dispute.
✽ FLAT RATE BILLING for Divorce and Parenting Time disputes.
Civil disputes are any non-criminal, non-family dispute. Whether you have been sued and are waiting for a hearing or if the matter has not yet devolved into a lawsuit, we can help both parties arrive at a binding settlement, resolving the issue. We can work with both represented and non-represented parties to arrive at settlement.
If you have submitted a claim and it was denied by your insurance carrier, we can help. Most insurance polices will cover the cost of mediation prior to litigation. We work with you and the building contractor to bring the insurance company to the table for a negotiation.
Assisting out-of-area attorneys on a contractual basis in the areas of research, investigation, case file preparation and local point of contact.
Consumer and commercial debt collection for our clients and on a contractual basis for out-of-area collection agencies. Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Commerce,License # 40082433
Farm or house leases, notes, mortgages, chattel mortgages, bills of sale, deeds, assignments, satisfactions, or any other conveyances except testamentary dispositions and instruments of trust.
Settlement of consumer and commercial debt. Licensed by the Minnesota Department of Commerce.
We specialize in satisfying court judgments. Our approach typically results in the best satisfaction available to the creditor, given the debtors ability to pay.
Got a question? We’re here to help.
Mediation is neither a fact-finding or fault-finding process; instead, mediation is a problem-solving process. Mediators do not render legal advice to anyone because they are no one's attorney. Rendering legal advice to any party would be stepping outside the role of mediator. Rendering legal advice to one party and not the other would violate the rule of neutrality.
An attorney, acting as mediator cannot render legal advice. Unfortunately, some attorney's recommend using an "attorney mediator" as a means of limiting the selection of potential mediators to only small group of their close associates. This raises ethical concerns as to the relationship between the recommending attorney and the "attorney mediator", in that they may aim to consistently mediate each others cases under a process design that has you paying more than you should to the "attorney mediator" and your attorney.
The short answer is NO. At the end of the mediation process, you will have an oportunity to have any potential resolution reviewed and even re-drafted by your attorney. In mediation you are exchanging ideas that may result in the settlement of some, if not all issues. However, before you and the other party agree to the final draft of the language used in your Memorandum of Agreement, you are engouraged to consult an attorney if you choose.
Asynchronous simply means that you meet with the mediator independently of the other party. Unlike face-to-face mediation, wether over over zoom or at another location, asynchronous mediation provides separation in time and physical distance from the other party allowing you to focus on resolution, not old feelings.
Some attorneys continue to prefer a single day, face-to-face process that they can attend (and bill you for). A question you may want to ask is who benefits from a continuation of the fight?
Attorney attended mediation has a dismal record of success and generally results in an expansion of the dispute rather than the intended reduction of the issues toward resolution.
Lawyer's training and experience with dispute resolution generally is based upon their understanding of trial and arbitration, two adjudicative processes where the neutral judge/arbitrator controls both the process and the outcome of the hearing. Alternatively, many lawyers frequently engage in the differently structured process of negotiation, with varying degrees of tactical and strategic success.
Absolutly not. If anything positive came out of the Covid-19 pandemic it is the realization that the we can do many things from any location, including mediation.
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Kind regards,
Niemala Mediation