FREE CLE- Lunch & Learn (June 2026)
JOIN US ON THE SECOND FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH FOR OUR LUNCH & LEARN SERIES IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER
June 12th at 12 PM, FREE and Open to All. Qualifies for CLE and CME Credit.
This month, we have Ethically Speaking with Hadas Stagman and Sean Dillon (CLE: 1 General, 1 Ethics)
Attendance is limited to the first 250 attendees. It will be available later on our YouTube channel for viewing.
Join your fellow Florida mediators and arbitrators for this series from January to June 2026 on Zoom to provide insights, skill building, and education for neutrals.
PROGRAM SUMMARY:
This presentation will review a selection of MEAC (Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee) ethics opinions that are most relevant to common mediation scenarios. We will examine how these opinions apply across different types of mediations and explore guidance on frequently encountered ethical issues, including the use of social media, a mediator’s ability to testify in court, managing multi-party disputes, post-mediation communications, mediating when a party may be incompetent, mediator advertising, providing assistance with forms to pro se parties, and how a mediator may handle a party who illegally records a mediation. By grounding these issues in practical ethics guidance, this presentation is designed to help mediators navigate challenging situations with greater clarity, integrity and professionalism. Additionally, this presentation will review recent ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 518, which addresses ethical issues arising from mediations conducted with unrepresented parties. We will examine the existing rules – both the ABA Model Rules and the Florida counterparts to the same – for the mediator’s ethical duties arising when mediating disputes with pro se parties. This foundation leads to examination of Formal Ethics Opinion 518 and the manner in which it clarifies and expounds upon those existing ethical duties. The review of this Opinion focuses upon practical ethics guidance for identifying challenging situations that can arise and for framing responses to those situations that clearly define the mediator’s role as well as the limitations upon the mediator’s role, while maintaining neutrality and professionalism.