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Kimberly Schreiber, Esq. of Eldercare Resolved, LLC, Gallatin, TN and fellow trainers will be in Mobile, Alabama this December to present a three day Elder Mediation training–the first one in Alabama.
According to Kimberly, “Elder mediation training guides the participants to think abouy the complexities of elder law and elder mediation by helping them develop skills and specific strategies for working with large, complex groups.” This training provides an overview of legal planning, challenges of aging, family dynamics, and gives resources for attorneys and mediators to give to their clients. Alabama CLE credit.
For more information contact Kimberly Schreiber, Esq. 615-681-7585
On October 21st, Mediation Day in Alabama, we held appellate mediation training at the Alabama State Bar. Our thanks to trainer Gary Canner, Esq., 11th Circuit mediator (retired) of Upchurch, Watson, White & Max, and the Appellate Mediation Office trainers: Rebecca Oates, Esq., Michelle Ohme and Celeste Sabel, Esq. (left to right with Gary, above).
Thanks also to Justice Bernard Harwood, the Honorable Art Hanes and Debra Leo, Esq., our appellate panel for afternoon discussion.
Mediation week has begun, and Governor Robert Bentley has declared by proclamation October 21st as Mediation Day in Alabama. Thanks to the Governor’s Legal Advisor, Cooper Shattuck, for making this happen.
The Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution and the Appellate Mediation Office are hosting appellate mediation training on the 21st at the Alabama State Bar. Gary Canner, Esq., 11th Circuit Mediator, Retired, will be the appellate trainer. Joining him are Rebecca Oates, Assistant Clerk of the Court of Civil Appeals who administers that Court’s appellate mediation program; Celeste Sabel, Esq., Senior Staff Attorney for the Supreme Court of Alabama and appellate mediation administrator; and Michelle Ohme, the Program Coordinator for the Alabama Appellate Mediation Program.
Chief Justice Charles R. Malone of the Supreme Cour of Alabama, and William C. Thompson, Presiding Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals will make remarks.
A panel of distinguished appellate mediators will join the 25 participants for lunch and discussion: Hon. Arthur J. Hanes, Jr., Upchurch, Watson, White & Max, Birmingham; Justice R. Bernard Harwood, Jr., Rosen Harwood, PA, Tuscaloosa; and Debra Black Leo, Esq., Supervisory ADR Coordinator, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Birmingham.
Mediators who mediate this week will ask those for whom they mediate to take a mediation effectiveness survey as part of a state-wide initiative by the Alabama Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution (www.alabamaadr.org). District court mediation program coordinators have also been asked to participate: Rob Stankoski, Fairhope; Lee Davis, Culllman; Cheryl Leatherwood, Ozark; Heather Boone, Selma; Vicki Bonner-Ward, Wetumpka; Kirk Garrett, Brewton; Steve Overby, Dothan; Read Haughery, Opelika; Margie Stellingwerf, Huntsville; Al Giles, Mobile; Kim Gully, Decatur; and Ken Dunham, professor for Jones School of Law Mediation Course and Clinic and his students will survey participants in Montgomery.
Judges Jody Bishop and Pamela Baschab recently hosted a luncheon for mediators who volunteer their services for Bladwin County’s District Court civil cases. Opposing parties who agree to mediation are provided with an impartial mediator to help them reach an agreement outside the courtroom. Baldwin County’s mediation program has achieved a significant rate of success in helping parties resolve their differences prior to trial. The program is one of twelve district court mediation programs in the state, and serves as a model for other programs. (August 2011, Addendum)
Co-sponsored by the San Diego, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, & Oregon Bars, along with the Inter-American Bar-International Arbitration Law Committee, the Litigation Section of the California Bar and the U.S. -Mexico Bar Association, the Institute will run from November 3-4, 2011, at the Sheraton Suites at Symphony Hall, San Diego, California.
Improve your skills in: preparing for mediation, maximizing the joint opening session, ethical issues, negotiating in the caucus, breaking impass, developing your practice and cross-cultural conflict.
Click here for more info: http://www2.americanbar.org/calendar/9th-annual-advanced-mediation-and-advocacy-skills-institute/Pages/default.aspx
The AFCC will hold its 49th Annual Conference, June 6-8, 2012
Attachment, Brain Science and Children of Divorce: The ABCD’s of Child Development for Family Law
Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois
For those of you who are interested, they have posted a request for proposals at:
Call for Proposals: http://afccnet.org/pdfs/AFCC%20Chicago%20Call%20for%20Proposals.pdf
Online Proposal Submission Form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8W8XSQ5
AFCC Regional Training Conference
Working with High Conflict and Violent Families: A Race with No Winners October 27-29, 2011
Hyatt Regency Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
For more information and registration: http://www.afccnet.org/conferences/afcc_conferences.asp
 Al Jiles, Esq. Al Giles, Esq., who spent many hours getting the Mobile District Court Mediation Program up and running , as well as mediating for the program, was the 2011 Alabama State Bar Pro Bono Mediator Award winner. The award is presented each year by the Volunteer Lawyers Program of the Bar to a mediator who exceeds in pro bono mediation efforts. Al received the award at the Annual Bench & Bar Luncheon, Thursday, July 14, 2011 at the Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama. He gave over 600 hours to the Mobile program.
Congratulations, Al, and thank you for all your work! Mediation job well done.
The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution will hold its 14th Annual Spring Conference April 18-21, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
The Section is now accepting program proposals for the conference. Proposals must be received by September 12, 2011. View the proposal guidelines and submit online now!
http://www2.americanbar.org/calendar/14th-annual-section-of-dispute-resolution-spring-Conference/Pages/SubmitaProgramProposal.aspx
A couple links to material that might interest environmental mediators:
The Udall Foundation: http://www.udall.gov/;
U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution: http://www.ecr.gov/
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