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 Hon. John Carroll and Symposium Audience Cumberland School of Law Community Mediation Center and CLE Program, in conjunction with the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Birmingham Bar and the Dispute Resolution Section of the Alabama State Bar, will host a spring ADR Symposium April 8, 2011, from 8:30 until noon in the moot court room at the law school.
Steve Heninger from Heninger Garrison Davis, and Stanley Cash from Huie, Fernambucq & Steward will tackle, “A Practitioner’s Approach to Preparing for Complex and Emotional Mediations,” moderated by Jack Neal of Sirote & Permutt. Oscar Price of Wallace Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, Beverly Baker of Ogletree Deakins, John Scott of Starnes Davies Florie, and Scott Simpson of Simpson, Glick, Burford will cover, “Ethical Issues in Arbitration,” moderated by Corkey Strickland, associate dean and professor at Cumberland. A mediation panel will wrap up the day: John Ott, magistrate judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District, Charles Denaburg of Najjar Denaburg, Fern Singer of Watterson & SInger, Bill Ratliff of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, moderated by Judge John Carroll, dean & professor of Cumberland.
To register contact the Cumberland Community Mediation Center at (205) 726-4342, ccmc@samford.edu. Registration fee is $100 for section members and $125 for non members. The program is approved for 3 hours of CLE including 1 hour ethics.
The Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution and Alabama State Bar are co-sponsoring a free 6+ hour CLE for criminal justice practitioners January 14, 2010, 8:30-4:00 with lunch provided, in the courtroom of Hon. J. Scott Vowell, 3rd floor, Jefferson County Civil Courthouse, in Birmingham. Grant funding is from the American Bar Association Enterprise Fund, with technical support from the ABA Criminal Justice Section. Faculty includes V. Michelle Obradovic, Esq., R. Wendell Sheffield, Esq., and Danny Carr, Esq.
Participants MUST register to take the course, and registration must be complete by January 1. Please call the Center for a registration form and draft agenda: 334-269-0409.
 Anne Isbell Anne Isbell, Executive Director of the Community Mediation Foundation of Huntsville, and Vice Chair for the Alabama Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution, is an expert in training students to handle conflict without violence. Anne has worked with schools in Huntsville, Opelika, Montgomery, Scottsboro and other Alabama cities, and has accumulated proof that peer mediation will change the climate in a school.
During peer mediation training, students learn about the causes of conflict and the rules for fair fighting. They are taught to attack the problem not the person, and to brainstorm for solutions that satisfy. Students who are trained to be mediators are able to facilitate discussion about the real issues that concern those in conflict. They learn to come to the table and lead the negotiation for resolution. Peer mediators become leaders, facilitators, peacemakers.
To learn more about peer mediation or to contact Ms. Isbell about having peer mediation in your school, visit our new postings at the website www.alabamaadr.org
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