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May 2–3 in Tampa

2025 MENTORING ACADEMY

FOR ATTORNEY-MEDIATORS

Advanced Mediation Techniques:
Getting the Deal Done

Course number 8780 is approved for 11.5 CLE/CME credits, including .5 in Professionalism and Ethics.
Online registration ended on April 25.

REGISTER AT THE DOOR on May 2, starting at 1:00 p.m.
Carlton Fields, P.A., 4221 West Boy Scout Blvd., Suite 1000, Tampa
(Corporate Center III, International Plaza)

Hosted by The Alternative
Dispute Resolution Section
of The Florida Bar

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.

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Christina Magee

Program Co-Chair

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John Salmon

Program Co-Chair

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Ido Alexander

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Jay Castle

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Karen Evans-Putney

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Mark Greenberg

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Leslie Langbein

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Rodney Max

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Harold Oehler

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Rosa Rodriguez

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Oscar Sanchez

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

3:50–4:15 p.m.—A brief introduction to ethical and practical considerations involved in developing a fully neutral practice

4:15–4:40 p.m.—Introduction to tomorrow’s exercise

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

12:00–12:15 p.m.—Break

12:15–1:20 p.m.—Lunch (provided): Beyond the Basics: Practical AI Tools and eSignature Devices for Modern Mediator by Ido Alexander

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

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)

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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

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