Service Fees & Costs

Service Fee Schedule

The Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center (APADRC) is proud to serve a culturally and economically diverse clientele and provide conflict resolution services on a sliding scale. We provide the following services:

Conciliation: Conciliation is a process in which mediators communicate with each party separately by phone to facilitate resolution. 

Mediation: Mediation is a process in which disputing parties are convened for a face-to-face meeting facilitated by one or more mediators. Mediators guide parties through negotiations to create a mutually satisfactory resolution to their dispute. 

Fees & Costs

Conciliation:
Conciliation services provided by the APADRC are FREE for all parties, except for a $25 administrative fee paid by initiating parties whose annual income exceeds $20,000.

Conciliation services are provided by APADRC’s team of volunteer Conflict Resolution Specialists.

 

Community Mediations:
Community disputes include matters between private individuals, such as neighbors, landlords and tenants, and family members; non-monetary disputes; non-litigated disputes; and disputes between low-income parties.

Community mediation services provided by the APADRC are FREE for all parties, except for a $25 administrative fee paid by initiating parties whose annual income exceeds $20,000.

Community mediation services are provided by APADRC’s team of volunteer Conflict Resolution Specialists.

 

Litigated and Complex Mediations:
Litigated and complex disputes include matters between individuals and large corporations, or business to business disputes; matters already in litigation; multi-party disputes involving three or more stakeholders; and high-conflict disputes involving complex emotional and/or financial issues.

Litigated and complex mediations are assessed at a minimum fee of $670 and are scheduled for three hours, corresponding to an hourly rate of $215. 

  • If parties reach an agreement within the scheduled three hours, any time spent drafting the settlement agreement that Is in excess of the scheduled three hours is assessed at a flat fee of $175.
  • If parties do not reach an agreement within the scheduled three hours, all additional time spent mediating and formalizing agreement terms is assessed at a rate of $215/hr. 

Litigated and complex mediation services are provided by APADRC Staff Mediators. 

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