Private Dispute Resolution · Real Estate · Business · Family

The goal isn’t to win the argument. It’s to solve the problem.

Resolve Mediation helps people work through real estate, business, and family disputes — looking beyond the legal positions to what actually needs resolving: the money, the timing, the relationships, and what happens next.

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Two roads out of a dispute

One takes years. The other takes weeks.

In court
With Resolve
Time
1–2 years
A few weeks
Cost
unpredictableTens of thousands per side, before anyone wins
known up frontOne fixed fee, split between the parties
Privacy
A public court record, open to anyone
Entirely private and off the record
Who decides
A judge you have never met
You do. Nothing is imposed on either side
The end
A ruling one side can appeal
An agreement you both signed
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. The nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time.”
Abraham Lincoln · Notes for a Law Lecture, c. 1850
Before you litigate

Even a win is rarely the win you pictured.

A judgment is a piece of paper you still have to collect, and a judge can see your slam-dunk very differently. Litigation is an expensive, drawn-out bet on being proven right — and it usually ends in a settlement anyway. Mediation trades the gamble for an outcome you actually control.

The difference

There is a solution inside almost every dispute. The work is finding it — calmly, and clearly.

I’m not here to be your litigator, and I won’t pretend to predict how a court would rule. What I bring is having seen that road from the inside. I know how slow, costly, and draining it is, and that it almost always ends in a settlement anyway. Resolving it directly gets you there at the start.

And a dispute is rarely only a legal question. Beneath it there is money, a business reality, a relationship, and two sides each certain they are right — and even with their own lawyers, each side is locked inside its own view.

My role is the outside seat: the neutral who sees the whole board, keeps the room calm, and finds the resolution a courtroom isn’t built to give.

Why this works better than court

What a courtroom isn’t built to reach.

Solutions the law can’t reach

A court can only grant what the law allows — an order, an award, an injunction, a declaration — and it rules on who is right. Dispute resolution isn’t bound to that menu: a payment plan, an apology, a revised deal, a clean exit, an arrangement no judge could order. The better question isn’t who is right; it’s what actually works here.

The relationship, intact

Co-owners, family, partners, neighbours who still have to deal with each other afterward. A ruling names a winner; resolving it together lets both sides move on.

The real reason, not just who’s liable

Court asks what happened and who pays. Dispute resolution reaches the misunderstanding or the interest underneath — which is usually where the resolution actually lives.

Control over how it ends

In court, a stranger you never met dictates the outcome. Here nothing is imposed — you decide, and you sign only what you agree to.

What resolution looks like

In a few weeks, it’s simply done.

The matter is closed, privately. You have an agreement you helped write, not a ruling handed down to you. If the relationship mattered, it is intact. And you are back to your business, your family, your life — instead of feeding a file for the next year or two.

What we resolve

The disputes that settle sooner, and cost less.

Real Estate
Failed closings and deposits, co-ownership and partition, assignments, estate property, and commercial leases — the deal, and what it’s really worth.
Business
Partnerships and shareholders, contracts and vendors, business break-ups and negotiated exits — where two sides still have to decide how it ends.
Family
Family businesses, siblings and inheritances, estates, shared assets, and intergenerational disputes — where the relationship matters as much as the money.

The bigger pictureIn every one of these, the legal question is only part of it. Money, timing, control, pride, relationships, and what happens tomorrow matter just as much — and that’s usually where the resolution actually lives.

Some matters belong elsewhere — separation, divorce, and parenting (accredited family mediation), residential tenancies (LTB), and construction liens (Construction Act). If yours is one of them, I’ll tell you plainly.

How it works

Structured, written, and done in weeks.

1
The Framework

The dispute, in writing

Both sides receive the same document: what the contract says, how the law reads in both directions, what a court could actually do, and what the fight would cost. It collapses “my side is obviously right” for everyone at once.

2
The private read

Where you really stand

Each side gets a candid, confidential assessment — your strengths, your exposure, and a realistic settlement range. Framed as probability, never as a promise, and never shared with the other party.

3
The session

A signed agreement

A focused online session where each side is heard, ending in a written memorandum your lawyers turn into a binding deal. You keep control the whole way. Nothing is decided for you.

The line I hold

The Framework is an impartial read of the contract and the law that applies, given to both sides identically. It is not legal advice, and it never interprets the law in favour of one party — each of you keeps your own lawyer to advise you, and the decision is always yours. My only job is to make sure neither side negotiates as though the answer were already obvious.

Taran Aujla
Taran Aujla
Problem-solver first. Mediator by disposition.
  • Mediator · Ontario
  • REALTOR® · Ontario
  • Registered · Real Estate Council of Ontario
Background
  • Former lawyer · 10 years
  • Complex business & real estate matters
Education
  • LL.L / LL.B · University of Ottawa, National Program
  • Real Estate Salesperson Program · Humber · 2024
Languages
  • English · French · Punjabi
Who runs the room

For close to a decade I practised business and real estate law in Ontario, and worked through several hundred transactions and complex matters. But the disputes worth solving were never only about the law. They were about people, money, timing, pride, and what happens next.

So that is how I work a problem. I look at the whole board: the legal exposure, the numbers, the relationships, the incentives, and the outcome each side actually needs. I leave no stone unturned, and I stay calm while I turn them over.

I am neutral by design. I act for neither side, I give no legal advice, and I recommend every party get their own counsel. The decision is always yours.

The impartiality rule

I never take the listing, the sale, or any brokerage work arising from a dispute I mediate. Neutrality you can check, not just a claim.

Private Advisory

Not every complex situation needs a mediator.

Sometimes there aren’t two sides looking for a neutral. You’re facing a hard decision, a negotiation, or a situation — and you need someone outside it to see the whole board.

I also work privately with executives, business owners, principals, and individuals in complex situations. The role is different from mediation: here I’m your advisor, not the neutral. We break the situation down, find what actually matters, weigh the people, incentives, risks, and options, pressure-test the paths — and decide what should happen next.

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Fees

A fixed price, known before we begin.

Framework Report
from$900
The written analysis, joint and private, with no session. The cheapest way to learn whether your position is worth fighting for.
Half day · 3 hrs
from$2,200
Both reports, plus a focused online session. Suited to a single clear question, like a deposit or a failed closing.
Full day · 6 hrs
from$3,800
Both reports and a full session, for co-ownership, estate, and multi-issue disputes with more to work through.

Starting points — the fixed price for your matter is set and agreed before we begin, and scales with its complexity and the amount at stake. Split between the parties unless agreed otherwise. Commercial mediators run $3,000–$10,000 a day; a known, fixed fee is the point.

Common questions

The one everyone asks first.

“Why not just file a claim first? Won’t they only take me seriously once I sue?”
It’s the most common instinct — and usually the most expensive one. Filing is the slowest, costliest way to be taken seriously: it hardens both sides, brings in lawyers whose training is to fight, and starts a two-to-four-year clock. And here is the part few people realize — most claims settle anyway, just years and tens of thousands of dollars later. A mediation invitation, coming from a neutral, signals something different: that you are serious about resolving this, not prolonging it. It costs almost nothing to try, and if it doesn’t work the courthouse is exactly where you left it — you can always file after. You can rarely un-file gracefully. Both sides usually wait for the other to blink; the smarter move is to be the one who opens the door.
What is mediation, exactly?
Mediation is a private, voluntary process where an impartial third party — the mediator — helps two sides in a dispute reach their own resolution, instead of a judge imposing one. Nothing is decided for you, and nothing is binding until you both agree. It is faster, cheaper, and more private than court: most matters resolve in weeks, on a fixed fee, and what is said stays confidential. In real estate, business, and family disputes, the mediator looks beyond the legal positions to what actually needs resolving — the money, the timing, and the relationships.
What if the other side refuses to come?
It only takes one side to open the door. A reasonable invitation to mediate is hard to refuse — courts expect parties to attempt resolution, and unreasonably refusing can carry cost consequences later. And because the invitation comes from a neutral rather than from your opponent, it is far easier for the other side to accept without feeling they have conceded anything.
Is anything decided, or binding?
No. Mediation is entirely non-binding — nothing is imposed on either side, and I decide nothing. You reach a resolution only if you both agree to it, and any agreement is written up as a memorandum for each side’s own lawyers to turn into a binding contract. Until you sign, you keep every legal right you walked in with.
Do we still need our own lawyers?
Yes — and you should keep them. I am neutral: I act for neither side and I give no legal advice. Your lawyer advises you; my job is to help you both find the resolution. Getting your own independent legal advice is something I recommend, not something mediation replaces.
Is it confidential?
Entirely. The process is private and without prejudice — what is said in the room stays in the room, and nothing offered or discussed can be used against you if the matter later goes to court. That is what makes it safe to speak plainly and actually solve the problem.
Start here

Bring the dispute. Leave with an agreement.

TodayYou send your inquiry
Within 48 hoursI reply personally; with your go-ahead, the other side is invited
5 business daysThe Framework, in hand
2–3 weeksYour session
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