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2025 MENTORING ACADEMY
FOR ATTORNEY-MEDIATORS
Advanced Mediation Techniques:
Getting the Deal Done
Hosted by The Alternative
Our biennial Mentoring Academy
offers advanced mediation techniques
to move your practice to the next level.
Certified mediators share their expertise
and practical insights.
Special thanks to Mentoring Academy
Program Co-Chairs Christina Magee and John Salmon
2025 Mentoring Academy Sponsors
LEARN FROM THE PROS
Ready to advance your mediation practice?
Join us at the 2025 Mentoring Academy and expand your competency and experience.
- Practice techniques and receive live, immediate feedback to make you a better mediator.
- Gain appropriate, ethical mediation techniques to address a complex litigation case.
- Advance your experience in handling hurdles that can appear in complex cases.
- Improve how you establish “mediation momentum” and move the parties forward to close the deal.
- Get pro tips on testing party-imposed limitations without overstepping ethical boundaries to bring the parties to an acceptable resolution.
- Learn technology tips for facilitating the parties’ agreement that can enhance your practice and improve your clients’ experiences.
- Increase your statewide network of mentors and co-mediators.
- AND enjoy a stimulating, interactive opportunity to expand your skills in a risk-free environment.
Faculty members for the Mentoring Academy are among the most experienced mediators in Florida. Some work in large firms and others practice solo. Each is certified as a County, Circuit Civil or Family mediator. Representative faculty members for the 2025 Mentoring Academy are pictured below.
Christina Magee
Program Co-Chair
John Salmon
Program Co-Chair
Ido Alexander
Karen Evans-Putney
A. Michelle Jernigan
Lawrence Kolin
Rodney Max
Harold Oehler
Rosa Rodriguez
Rodney Romano
David Salmon
Oscar Sanchez
Christopher Shulman
Day One Tentative Schedule
1:00 p.m.—On-site registration opens
2:00–2:10 p.m.—Welcome and Introductions
2:10–3:50 p.m.—Panel Discussion: The Opening Statement Beyond the Fundamentals, by Rodney Romano, Karen Evans Putney, and Harold Oehler
3:50–4:15 p.m.—A brief introduction to ethical and practical considerations involved in developing a fully neutral practice, by Christina Magee and Christopher Shulman
4:15–4:40 p.m.—Introduction to tomorrow’s exercise, by John Salmon and Christina Magee and Fran Tetunic
4:50–6:00 p.m.—Networking reception for participants and faculty followed by no-host dinners on your own.
Day Two Tentative Schedule
8:00 a.m.—Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 a.m.—Welcome and introductions; overview of program events and process for participants
8:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m.—Mediation exercise: “Getting the Deal Done,” the dissolution of a medical imaging practice. John Salmon, role-play moderator.
12:00–12:15 p.m.—Break
12:15–1:20 p.m.—Lunch (provided): Cementing the Parties’ Agreement and Achieving a Signed Deal, by David Salmon
1:20–3:40 p.m.—Participant Roundtables (2 rounds and a break)
3:40–4:30 p.m.—Panel Discussion: Moving Through Impasse to Close the Deal, by Michelle Jernigan, Leslie Langbein, and Rodney Max
4:30 p.m.—Participant program evaluations
Photos from the 2023 Mentoring Academy for Attorney-Mediators
2023 ACADEMY REVIEWS
I had very high expectations for this event but the actual event far surpassed my expectations. It would take me years of mediations to gain the knowledge and ideas that I picked up last weekend. ~ Harold Oehler, Esq., Certified Federal and Florida Circuit Civil Mediator; Chair of the Mediation Section of the Hillsborough County Bar Association (2020-2022)
The best hands-on education event I have ever attended! Excellent practical tips and strategies and a wonderful opportunity to get to know others who share the same passion for alternative dispute resolutions. ~ Hadas Kohn Stagman, Esq., South Florida Divorce Mediations, Florida Supreme Court Certified Family, Dependency and Circuit Court Mediator
