Bales, Beall LLP
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Our support embraces all areas of business planning, succession planning, estate planning and family law, plus their interrelated disputes and litigation, particularly in matters of significant assets, complex property protection, and interests in family businesses.
We help clients
- preserve relationships,
- build and retain assets,
- maintain family harmony, and
- sustain an environment of sensibility in their lives and business.
Remarkable Advice And Service
Bales Beall LLP is a specialty Toronto law firm. We provide remarkable strategic legal advice and personal service to help individuals, family groups and family held businesses deal with ongoing opportunities and challenges.
As long-term relationships advance, we guide clients in their evolving plans for the future, taking care of their needs and situation complexities. With our broad perspective, we can effectively bring the seemingly disparate pieces of the puzzle together.
Bales Beall LLP is a family’s law firm, a comprehensive legal resource to you and your family. With our broad perspective, we can effectively bring the seemingly disparate pieces of the puzzle together.
Approach
Our approach to successful outcomes is to strategically manage issues before, or as they arise. If a matter is outside our area of expertise, we will refer it to another specialist and closely monitor the work and the lawyer’s service.
- Personal service: Contact us. We are always accessible, and take a personal interest in our clients.
- Strategic: We give clients proactive, strategic advice that can parallel an annual physical check up at a physician’s office. We ask the right questions and understand all the possible of consequences.
- Practice Culture: Bales Beall LLP has evolved a practice culture that stresses good judgment, imagination, flexibility, pragmatism, client sensitivity, and unwavering resolve. We focus on what is worth achieving.
- Reputation: We are well known to other lawyers who regard us as effective, rational and pragmatic.
- Providing Value: Affordable, sophisticated legal advice fills a critical void.
- Return On Investment: Your investment in our advice should return in a multiple of tangible and intangible benefits if appropriately implemented.
- Listeners: We are very smart listeners - not limited to hearing what is said or even not said, but hearing what is meant.
Dispute Resolution
You can depend on us to exercise keen judgment, get to the heart of the matter and set out a strategy for you to minimize the intrusive impact of any dispute on your life. We are astute problem solvers with years of experience before all levels of court and at mediation, involving all manner of personal and business related disputes. Conflict can have a positive outcome - some disputes should not be litigated. We will lift the problem from your shoulders.
As Personal Legal Advisors
Bales Beall LLP is a family’s law firm, a comprehensive legal resource to you and your family. We augment and coexist harmoniously with your other private professional advisors and lawyers. Our role is to keep you focused to achieve your goals.
We act as problem solvers, as personal legal advisors and as business confidants. Our holistic approach in dealing with your evolving legal needs and related issues allows us to concentrate on what should be really important to you, and neutralize roadblock as they arise. This strategic view goes beyond the here-and-now, emphasizing the context of your life, your family, your investments and your business as the focus of our advice.
After a well thought-out blueprint is developed, we guide you through its implementation.
We aim to provide affordable continuity of service that can improve the quality of your life and business.
Put Yourself First
Talk with us. We will help you sort out your priorities. No matter what other problems may exist in your personal, business, or investment life, we can bring order and perspective to the situation, returning you to a position of strength and tranquility.
Mediation
We facilitate dispute resolution to:
- Family Businesses
- Partnerships
- Workplace Conflict
- Estates
- Wealth Management
- Human Rights
Save Time, Money and Preserve Confidentiality
Some disputes should not be litigated. Because of the costs, delays and intrusiveness inherent in our litigation process, means of resolving disputes other than by traditional litigation have become increasingly attractive. Alternative Dispute Resolution has resulted in time and cost savings while preserving relationships, maintaining confidentiality and integrity.
What is Mediation?
Mediation is formalized negotiation in which an independent third party assists the disputants in reaching a mutually agreeable solution to their problem. Mediation typically is recommended for disputes between parties with ongoing business or personal relationships, where they desire privacy, or where resolution of the dispute is more important than the legal positions involved.
No Wars
An early, sensible and fair settlement is usually better than a prolonged war of attrition, no matter how successful.
By breaking the impasse caused by decision inertia or acrimonious conflict within the family unit or family owned company, we have helped resolve seemingly hopeless situations that were headed for hostile litigation.
We provide thoughtful and economically worthwhile conflict management, dispute prevention and alternative dispute settlement services. Through the mediation, we become acknowledged and validated as facilitators rather than mere cogs in the process.
Furthermore, we have experience drafting dispute resolution procedures into a wide range of contracts and agreements that have resulted in preserved relationships and continued economic advantage to all.
Our Focus
Our focus is personal service to individuals, family groups and family held businesses to assist them in resolving disagreements in a productive and dignified manner. We represent clients in matters as diverse as corporate governance, family law issues and estate matters.
Value
Our reputation has been built on sophisticated mediation ability, pragmatic approach, imaginative thinking, and strategic insight as to disputants’ best interests; all of which we combine to produce timely and cost effective results.
Process Design
We design conflict resolution processes that range from establishing governance structures and conflict resolution mechanisms in family businesses to the more traditional discussions with management and staff to establish new conflict resolution processes in the workplace, or to make existing processes more effective.
Our Approach
We work with parties to a dispute in a variety of ways to reduce the emotional and financial drain of conflict and increase the likelihood of resolution.
- Listen: Our ability to listen is not limited to hearing what is said or even what is not said, but hearing what is meant. And when we do talk, you will find us pleasantly understandable and articulate.
- Make a difference: We genuinely want to make a difference for the parties involved in a dispute and find a positive, practical outcome.
- Choices: Throughout the mediation process you will have a clear understanding of the choices and their consequences, and the reasons why particular options are developed.
- Idea generation and problem solving: As we are imaginative and not fettered by the paradigms of legal precedent or traditional business models, we can provide a comfortable mediation environment that focuses on solution, not winning or losing.
- Understand risk tolerance: Sometimes positions are so entrenched that it takes practiced intuition to recognize parties’ risk tolerance when working towards a creative solution.
- Common sense and life experience: With wide-ranging professional life experiences, we constructively impact the mediation process. Our paths have taken us both inside and outside the realm of business institutions, entrepreneurial venture and family units.
- Patience: We possess the patience to help clients work through problems no matter how complex or adversarial
- Litigation experience matters: Our resumes attest to meaningful and successful breadth and depth of experience. Not only have we been involved in all manner of disputes in very different forums, but we appreciate litigation’s impact on clients, win or lose.
- Considerate of advisors: In multi-tasking to a settlement or resolution, we are able to guide the disputants in a manner that is considerate of their lawyers’ advice.
- Ego: It’s neither about a victory nor our success. It’s about resolution, with both parties walking away from the mediation with feeling of accomplishment.
[edit] Lawyers
- Wendela Roberts
- Miriam Vale Peters
- Fareen Jamal
- Charles Beall
- Karon Bales
[edit] Student Info / Contact
Our Vision of Bales Beall LLP is that of a well regarded law firm, known for delivering promises on our core expertise, clearly focused serving a vibrant client sector and supported by exceptional lawyers. We thoroughly enjoy what we do and are unfettered by traditional business models and operating precedents. To a person in our office we deliver on exceptional client service, imagination as well outstanding legal advice. It's more demanding, but really satisfying.
11 King Street West, Suite 1550 Toronto, Ontario, M5H 4C7 Tel: 416.203 8591 Fax: 416.203.8592
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