CLE Events
MENTORING ACADEMY
FOR CERTIFIED
MEDIATORS
OCT. 25-26, 2019
USF CAMLS, 124 S. FRANKLIN STREET, TAMPA
Advanced mediation techniques to move your practice to the next level.
Certified mediators will share their expertise and practical insights.
Ready to advance your mediation practice?
Join us at the Mentoring Academy on Oct. 25-26, 2019 and expand your competency and experience.
- Practice techniques and receive live, immediate feedback that will make you a better mediator.
- Learn best practices for transitioning your practice from direct client representation to dispute resolution as a neutral.
- Gain appropriate, ethical mediation techniques to address a complex circuit civil litigation.
- Advance your experience in handling hurdles that can appear in complex cases.
- Improve how you handle openings in circumstances ranging from hostile to congenial—what to do and when.
- Get pro tips on how to test party-imposed limitations without overstepping ethical boundaries.
- Increase your statewide network of mentors and co-mediators.
Hosted by The Alternative
Dispute Resolution Section
of The Florida Bar
Oct. 25 – 26, 2019
CAMLS, 124 S. Franklin Street
Tampa, FL
Course No. 3260
10.0 CLE/Live CME 1.0 Ethics CLE/CME
9.0 Professionalism CLE
Faculty for the 2019 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.
MENTORING ACADEMY FACULTY
Theodore Deckert
Matrix Mediation LLC, West Palm Beach
Karen Evans
Litigation Resolution Inc, Miami
Art Garcia
Upchurch Watson White & Max, Miami
Peter Grilli
Grilli Mediation, Tampa
Jay Hunston Jr.
W. Jay Hunston Jr., P.A., Stuart
A. Michelle Jernigan
Upchurch Watson White & Max, Maitland
Rodney Romano
Matrix Mediation LLC, West Palm Beach
John Salmon
Salmon & Dulberg Dispute Resolution Inc, Miami
Oscar Sanchez
OAS Mediation, Miami
Christopher Shulman
Shulman ADR Law, P.A., Tampa
Kim Watson Torres
Torres Mediation Services, Melbourne
Stanley Zamor (Non-attorney Mediator/Arbitrator)
ATD Mediation & Arbitration, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale
MENTORING ACADEMY COMMITTEE
Chris Magee
Chair
John Salmon
Co-Chair
Robert Cole
Committee Member
A.J. Horowitz
Committee Member
Jay Hunston Jr.
Committee Member
Christopher Shulman
Committee Member
Alexander "Sandy" Myers
Committee Member
Many thanks to the Mentoring Academy Committee for their planning and hard work for this inaugural event. The Florida Bar ADR Section’s mission is to assist attorney-mediators in all ADR-related matters.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
3 PM—On-site registration
4 – 5:40 PM—Panel Discussion: The Paradigm of Effective Opening Statements at Mediation
5:45 – 7 PM—Networking reception then dinner on your own
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
8 AM—Registration; Continental breakfast
8:30 AM—Welcome and Introductions
8:40 AM – 2:20 PM—Mediation Exercise
12:20 – 1:10 PM—Lunch (provided)
Towards a Neutral Practice: Moving from Direct Client Representation to Work as a Neutral – Issues, Ethics, Finances and More.
1:10 – 1:20 PM—Break
1:20 – 3:40 PM—Participant Roundtables. Follow-up discussions regarding practice transitions and lunch presentation; participants continue to work as mediators with group assignments.
COURSE CLASSIFICATION: ADVANCED
3:40 – 4:30 PM—When Nothing Works: Tips and Tools to Break Impasse (panel discussion)
4:30 PM—Closing remarks, adjourn, participant evaluations of program