Founder’s Message: Laura Phypers
With more than two decades of family law experience in our family mediation team, we have seen firsthand how families get caught in a system that is slow, expensive, and built around a disconnect — a disconnect between lawyers, between clients, between offices, and between the people who actually need solutions.
In the traditional model, we call each other opposing counsel. That alone tells you everything: we are set up to oppose, not to collaborate. And that opposition is costly. Before families ever sit down to negotiate, they’ve often spent thousands of dollars on communication back-and-forth, disclosure requests, drafting pleadings, and waiting — always waiting — for the next step.
I’ve seen files where months go by and thousands of dollars are spent before we even get to a four-way meeting. Not because the issues are complicated, but because the process is disconnected. One lawyer sends a proposal. Weeks pass. Another lawyer responds. More weeks pass. Clients pay for every email, every phone call, every delay, every administrative step. And all the while, nothing meaningful is happening in the file.
That’s the problem I set out to solve.
At Phypers Mediation, we do things differently. We sit down as a team, right away, to get results.
