Elaine Block

It is not difficult to know where to begin to evaluate her as a mediator. First of all her demeanor was poor and the entire time we felt she was not an impartial party working toward a settlement that both parties could be happy with. She appeared rather one sided and was very condescending and dismi...ssive to anyone not a lawyer on our side of the table. Many times she was not willing to listen to information that was being presented. She often stated we needed not to spend time in the weeds and the devil is in the detail. Really ! We spent the entire day at her offices and at the end of the day the apposing party presented the same conditions it has presented prior plus at least 5 more requests, and it appears even one new request that we had expressed concern over that she appears to have informed the apposing party of. Talk about weeds. We were constantly told to make concessions and treat it as a business not personal. We came to the place knowing those facts already being of course educated persons just like her. Our side made concessions and by the end of the day the apposing party made zero but they did request even more from us. Now I will admit our apposing party isn't very amendable to compromise. It appears no compromise was made. However the food was at least fair. -