Christopher David Sawyer

I went through a divorce several years ago. I tried to "do it myself" and after several rounds of the paper work being returned, I was very frustrated and upset. I went to Chris Sawyer to have him help me finalize everything with the courts. Chris determined that because my ex husband wouldn't part...icipate in the process, it would be simpler to go to court to finish the divorce up. So that's what we did and it was done before we left the court on the appointed day. This was such a relief to me, you can imagine. He was helpful, courteous and had good humor throughout. Divorce/ Separation is no fun at all but if you have to go through it, it's good to have an ally. He is a good man with a kind heart, who really cares about the best interests of his clients AND their spouses. He is fair and compassionate to both parties, which is also a relief. He will make this process as pleasant as it can be.

Divorce usually triggers major change in the lives of not only the 2 people getting divorced, but often other family members and close friends as well, and the divorce process can become extremely contentious as both people deal with the pain, loss, and upheaval in their lives. Even though mediation... as an alternative to the more adversarial route is a choice, navigating through the process of coming up with a settlement acceptable to both parties is challenging, to say the least. So when both parties come away from the process with their dignity intact, feeling the settlement was fair, and still being friends, the only verdict that can be reached is that the Mediator was awesome! Chris Sawyer is an experienced Family Law Attorney and Mediator, but from our experience going through the divorce process, it’s the Mediator skills that made the world of difference for us. Chris wears many hats – facilitator, counselor, problem solver, negotiator, legal expert – but it’s his ability to defuse tensions when emotions are charged, be impartial but still offer advice and guide negotiations to resolve conflicts, and keep a sense of reality and need for compromise as focal points throughout the discussions that have made Chris our role model for how to deal with people when they feel most vulnerable. Both my ex-husband and I highly recommend Chris Sawyer as a Divorce Mediator (we collaborated on this review … enough said).

I found Chris and his staff at Sawyer Mediation to be amazing to work with. Chris is extremely knowledgeable but also very fair, compassionate and thoughtful when it comes to handling highly sensitive cases such as divorce. I thought he did a great job in keeping the mediation conversation on the obj...ective track while also trying to get all parties to see all sides of the coin. Additionally, I found Chris and his staff to be very informed when it comes to same-sex marriages and dissolution of such marriages and the laws that define them. He and his staff deliver cutting edge work that is unlike anything else you can find.