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Dispute Resolution

DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO CONFLICT

COVID-19 UPDATE AND VIDEO HEARINGS: Kyle-Beth Hilfer has experience conducting arbitrations and mediations via video. She constructs administrative protocols for these hearings that manage issues around confidentiality, security, document exchange and presentation, witness testimony, and technology failure. In addition, she has experience with a variety of technologies, including Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeeting, and TeamViewer. 

To read about a virtual hearing Kyle-Beth conducted during COVID-19, click here

Advocacy Philosophy

Kyle-Beth Hilfer resolves disputes through alternate means of dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

As a Harvard Law student, Kyle-Beth distinguished herself in the competitive Williston Contract Competition and studied alternative dispute resolution. Throughout her years of practice, Kyle-Beth has been an active advocate for alternate dispute resolution. She excels at developing innovative solutions to conflict.

In her transactional practice, Kyle-Beth drafts fair contracts that produce business results and sustain relationships. She approaches each transactional matter with the overarching philosophy that clients do not want to end up in court. She appreciates the emotional and financial toll that lawsuits can exact. Kyle-Beth works proactively for her clients to anticipate problems before they arise and avoid litigation.

As a dispute resolution provider, Kyle-Beth resolves disputes in a fair, unbiased manner. In both arbitrations and mediations, she differentiates herself from other neutrals with an active case management style.

  • Co-chair, Dispute Resolution Committee, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Section of New York State Bar Association
  • Member, Dispute Resolution Section, New York State Bar Association;  Alternate Dispute Resolution Section of the Westchester County Bar Association.
Arbitration Practice

Kyle-Beth Hilfer is a seasoned arbitrator with over 25 years’ experience hearing disputes. Having served as an independent Panel Advisor to the National Advertising Review Board of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council of the Better Business Bureau, Ms. Hilfer has a unique understanding of advertising industry disputes. In addition, parties to disputes hire her because of her broad expertise in managing intellectual property and commercial disputes of all sizes.

Kyle-Beth has resolved disputes with damages ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to multimillion-dollar large complex case awards. Parties who have appeared before her come from a range of industries: advertising, arts, commercial entities, communications, consumer products, e-commerce, event management, entertainment, infomercial and influencer contracts,  intellectual property,  public relations, publishing, sports,  sports management, sports memorabilia, and talent management.

As an arbitrator, Kyle-Beth manages hearings closely to achieve both efficiency and fairness, incorporating:

  • Pre-hearing telephonic conferences
  • Early resolution of discovery issues
  • Ongoing communication with parties pre-hearings
  • Clear and detailed schedules
  • Organized evidentiary hearings
  • Confidentiality
  • Cybersecurity
  • Impartiality
  • Respect for the parties
  • Awareness of budget

Kyle-Beth serves as sole arbitrator, panel chairperson, or panelist through:

  • American Arbitration Association: Commercial, Customer Account, Intellectual Property, Large Complex Case Panel, and Sports Panels.
  • The City of New York Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings Contract Dispute Resolution Board: appointed through the judicial system to hear disputes arising out of contracts between New York City and its vendors for goods, services, and construction.
  • World Intellectual Property Organization: appointed to panel to hear intellectual property disputes.
  • Non-administered private arbitrations.
Mediation Practice

Kyle-Beth Hilfer brings to mediations over thirty years’ experience in private practice and dispute resolution. She uses facilitative and transformative approaches to mediation that help the parties and their attorneys understand better their interests and resolve their disputes. When requested by the parties, she also employs evaluative techniques.

At the outset, Kyle-Beth prepares carefully to understand the parties’ conflict. Through pre-mediation conferences, she considers the parties’ positions and interests as well as the history of any settlement discussions. From the first interactions, she creates an atmosphere of trust that encourages cooperation and honesty. Stressing that it is the parties’ process, Kyle-Beth deploys tools tactically and always with the parties’ consent. These tools include active listening, questioning, reality testing, and risk-reward analyses. Whether in a joint session or caucus, her focus is a neutral and confidential facilitation.

Kyle-Beth is  a determined mediator; she does not give up on the parties. Her job is to uncloak the parties’ own abilities to remove obstacles and discover opportunities for resolution. Along the way, Kyle-Beth checks in frequently with the parties to determine how the process is serving each side’s goals. It is the parties’ dispute, and only they can deliver solutions. At the same time, her omnipresent hope is that with her patient, unbiased, and diligent assistance, they may unearth creative and workable results.

Kyle-Beth is a mediator in the following venues:

  • American Arbitration Association. For more information about retaining Kyle-Beth Hilfer through the AAA to serve as your mediator, please click here.
  • World Intellectual Property Organization.
  • New York State’s 2d Department Appellate Division Special Master Panel.
  • Nassau County, New York State Commercial Division ADR Roster.
  • Non-administered, private mediations.

She is a New York Part 146 certified mediator.

Kyle-Beth differentiates herself with a mediation style that incorporates:

  • Confidentiality
  • Cybersecurity
  • Impartiality
  • Respect for the parties
  • Empowerment
  • Collaboration
  • Empathetic and dynamic listening
  • Evaluative techniques when requested
  • Awareness of budget

For more information about hiring Kyle-Beth Hilfer to resolve your dispute, contact her for a consultation.

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