Alternative Dispute Resolution
 

We Bring Business Disputes to the Negotiating Table.

 
 

Our Mission

Is to provide the business community with highly skilled professionals that understand their side of the table.  We will serve our clients’ needs confidentially, patiently, and collaboratively.  Our reputation demands that neutrality and integrity illuminate our success in facilitating dispute resolution with the utmost professionalism.  We commit to providing our clients with a value-based, cost-effective solution. 

 

Meet Pete Kubitz

 

As a Founder, C-Suite Executive, and Board Member,  Pete built a career as a high-level strategist with years of experience in entrepreneurial and corporate business. Her passion for formal education fuels her hands-on experience in creative negotiations, finance, rising trends, and business-to-business technology. Combined with her natural problem-solving and keen intuition, allows for a visionary approach to leadership in dispute resolution. Pete is known for negotiating cost-effective contracts domestically and in culturally diverse international environments with Fortune 500 industry leaders and mid-size and startup corporations. She resolved disputed relationships with employees, clients, vendors, partners, funders, and competitors at all levels. Worked the filing process and defended IP, Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks.   Initially learned about dispute resolution from the business side of the table.  Pete lived the emotional upset and tremendous financial drain lawsuits can bring.  As a result, Pete is uniquely positioned to offer clients the essential part of conflict resolution,  reaching an agreement. Pete has an MBA from Pepperdine University, Professional Mediation and Dispute Resolution from both Pepperdine Caruso School of Law and Cornell University. She was recently appointed as a FINRA Dispute Resolution Services Arbitrator.

 

Meet Kathryn Joy

Kathryn has built a forty-six-year career in real estate affiliated fields: title insurance, escrow, finance/lending, contract negotiation, management, and real estate law. Kathryn has experienced dispute resolution from all levels of the real estate industry, specializing in landlord/tenant resolution, short-term rental resolution, and HOA disputes. Kathryn lends her expertise to ADR and mediation with the utmost experience and technical skills. Kathryn, through her many years in real estate-affiliated markets, has successfully negotiated outcomes for her clients, ranging from disputes with homeowner’s associations, to modification agreements with financial institutions, and contract interpretations, all as a non-attorney. Her expertise in the real estate industry has given her the insight needed to successfully guide those seeking her neutral and educated perspective. Kathryn holds a Certificate in Professional Mediation from Cornell University.

 
 

Press

 

"I have known and worked with "Pete" Kubitz for over 20 years and found her to be fit to shoulder any job, which required honesty, integrity and sincerity.  She always functioned as though she was part of our team and worked with us to overcome challenges whatever they were." 

~ Jim McCarthy
/GLOBAL PROCESSING, MASTERCARD/