Court granted our motion to enforce a settlement reached at a mediation. We represent the defendant a small business owner in a 2.5 year long case where parties reached a verbal settlement at a mediation session. The following day, plaintiff reneged and refused to sign a settlement agreement. We requested court to enforce the verbal settlement, because mediator read out loud of parties' agreement, and parties clearly expressed their consent to the agreement, thus a verbal agreement was reached. We also reasoned that to continue the case will cause unnecessary financial burden to our client. Court agreed with our position. |