PROFILE

MEDIATION/FACILITATION STYLE
Positive, creative results. When the mediator or facilitator truly believes in the process and the results that can be achieved through proper utilization of the process, there is no limit to the creative solutions which can be designed by parties to a dispute. The imposition of an outcome by a third party arbiter seldom, if ever, produces a fair result from which disputing parties may move forward and past their differences.

SUMMARY OF MEDIATION EXPERIENCE
My early dispute resolution experience evolved as a commercial and civil trial attorney, including certification as a Civil Trial Lawyer from 1983 to 2003 and as a Business Litigation Attorney from 1996 to 2001. After earning certification as a Circuit Civil Mediator in 1991 and as a Family Mediator in 1998, my interest and emphasis has shifted to the role of mediation and facilitation, rather than advocacy. As has been the case throughout my civil trial experience, my mediation and facilitation work generally involves complex, multi-party disputes encompassing a wide and diverse range of legal issues and subject areas.