The Mediation and Arbitration Department was established in 2014 and is headed by Adv. Dr. Daniel Sperling. The department provides mediation and arbitration services in a number of fields, while putting an emphasis on professional, reliable, and efficient service. While court proceedings take time and are expensive for the client, alternate forms of dispute resolution prove to be more effective. Mediation allows the two sides to completely control the legal outcome of their dispute, and draft for themselves, with the help of a mediator, the understandings and agreements that will apply to them. In this way, not only are they personally responsible for the outcome of their dispute, but they subject themselves to an outcome they themselves draft. This significant fact is completely different from what goes on in court – there the judge rules in favor of one side and against the other. In mediation, the sides take equal part in the process that leads to a solution, and arrive at an outcome that is good for both sides.