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Let me guess why you're here

Somebody probably told you to come see Karl Bayer because you're stuck in a dispute.

If you're a client, you're looking for a wise, efficient resolution of your dispute. You may be tired of hemorrhaging money and feeling totally out of control in an alien court system.

If you're a legal assistant you're probably trying to figure out availability, costs, and how to prepare your boss and your client for working with us.

If you're a lawyer, you've been working hard. You've gotten your case in shape where you can make sound recommendations so your client can make an informed decision. You're in a position to negotiate strongly, but your client may be getting unhappier by the day and not understanding why things can't end quickly. You may be getting pretty frustrated with other lawyers in the dispute.

You may not want to be here at all, but an arbitration clause or a court said you have to be.

I'ld rather be meeting you over a leisurely cup of coffee, but there will be time for that when you decide for yourself that I'm the person to help you.

Karl now has a robust online mediation practice. To learn more, watch Karl's brief introduction to the process below, visit the ODR section of our website, or download our remote advocacy resource guide. If you'd like to view a longer introduction that includes arbitration and court-appointed neutral, please click here.



Maybe you need a mediator. Maybe you need an arbitrator. Maybe you need a court-appointed neutral. Or maybe you need to host an online dispute resolution process for attendees from anywhere the world.

I'll use all the tools of dispute resolution to customize the process to ensure that your dispute is resolved quickly and fairly.

I'm Karl Bayer, and I help people get disputes resolved quickly and fairly. We get hired for mediations, arbitrations, and as a court-appointed neutral. I provide in-person dispute resolutions in Austin, Texas, Bozeman, Montana, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as online dispute resolutions across a number of platforms from anywhere in the world.

Whether you're an outside counsel, a member of management, an outside lawyer, or a legal assistant, this website is organized to help you get the information you need for the type of dispute you're in because appropriate dispute resolution is not just something that happens on the day we get together.

So come on in, you're in the right place.

Thanks. You can use the links on the left to navigate quickly through pages we've created to help you understand how we look at the process of disputing. The tabs at the top of the page take you to resources for the different types of disputes we handle - mediation, arbitration, court-appointed neutral cases or online dispute resolutions across a variety of platforms.

I'm ready to work with you as soon as you decide we're the people to help you.