Waterford sits at the centre of a south-east economy of owner-managed businesses, agriculture, food production, construction and property — and the firm has an office at 2 Rose Inn Street in Kilkenny, a short drive away, which makes an in-person mediation genuinely practical rather than a day on the road.
An Office in the Region, Not a Visit To It
Mary Molloy Solicitors has practised from Kilkenny as well as Dublin for years, which matters here for an unglamorous reason: a mediator who understands how business is actually done in the south-east — where relationships run across decades, where the same names recur across sectors, and where a public dispute is discussed well beyond the parties — moves a room faster than one who has to have the context explained. The disputes are the region’s own: shareholder and partnership disagreements in owner-managed companies, contract disputes between suppliers, processors and customers who cannot easily replace each other, construction and defects arguments, commercial landlord and tenant matters in the city and the towns, owners’ management company disputes in apartment and mixed-use schemes, workplace and professional-practice conflict, and — in volume — farm and family-business succession and contested estates, which are the disputes that most reward a private room and least reward a courtroom, because a judgment can order land sold but cannot divide a working holding without ruining it.
Venue, Timing and the Order Things Happen In
Mediations for Waterford parties are conducted at the firm’s Kilkenny office at 2 Rose Inn Street, at neutral venues in Waterford, at the parties’ own premises, at the Dublin office on Ormond Quay, or fully online — and the online option is a designed one rather than a fallback, running the opening session, the private sessions and the drafting of the settlement through breakout rooms that mirror the physical day. Whichever is chosen, the order never changes. The conflicts check runs first, before any substantive conversation about the dispute, which is why the first email should name every party — individuals, companies, the management company, the agent, any guarantor. Then the agreement to mediate is signed by everyone: how the process runs and ends, confidentiality and its limits, the right to take legal advice, who attends and with what authority, and fees agreed in writing with all parties before commencement. Then preparation — short position papers, the handful of documents that actually decide things, and one question answered privately by each party: what would a good outcome genuinely look like? And if agreement comes on the day, the settlement is drafted and signed before anyone leaves.
Two Free Tools Before You Call
The Mediation Readiness Check asks four honest questions and tells you where mediation genuinely fits — including when it does not. The Dispute Route Mapper shows the shape a mediation takes for your kind of dispute, who needs to be in the room, and what to bring. Both run entirely on your device; nothing is stored.
Ten Lines, and the Names of Every Party
The conflicts check runs before anything else - so name everyone involved first. Then the dispute in ten lines, what's been tried, and what a good outcome would look like for you.
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