A1 – Appellate Mediation: The Art of Settling After the Trial Court Has Ruled – Diane DeWolf (1.5 CME Credits Appellate)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
Appellate mediation differs from mediation at the trial court level primarily because one party has already won the case. This workshop will explain the appellate mediation process in both state and federal courts. It will also explore both the appellant's and the appellee's unique motivations to settle the case and provide an overview of successful mediation techniques - what has worked and what has not among appellate mediators.
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A1 – Ethics: Daring Dilemmas and Sensational Scenarios What Would You Do to Resolve These? – Susan Dubow (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
This workshop will closely examine ethical dilemmas and scenarios that all mediators may face. We will identify the dilemma and discuss various actions that the mediator may take, whether the mediator must terminate the mediation or can ethically take action to continue and work toward resolution. The workshop will consider the various approaches to mediation and review the cases using practical methodologies. We will use the Florida rules, MEAC Opinions and participants experiences in our discussions and problem solving.
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A10 – Overcoming Barriers – Ginger Malcom (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This workshop examines the what do I do, what do I say, and how do I accommodate a person with a disability who enters mediation. The interactive presentation provides tips for answering these questions and aims to reduce the fear associated with meeting a person with a disability. The presentation allows participants to experience the three major groups of disabilities including hearing, visual, and mobility impairments.
A10 – Mediation in the Public Sector – James Stokes (1.5 CME Credits Circuit)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
A mediation involving a local government entity comes with a unique set of statutory requirements which change the traditional rules of mediation. This presentation will familiarize mediators with the specific limitations on settlement authority, confidentiality, public record requirements, and other items faced by the representative of a local government entity and provide insight on how to address these issues.
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A10 – Supervised Visitation, Legends and Truths – Mark Roseman (1.5 CME Credits Family)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
Supervised visitation will be examined in its definition, purpose, and process. The goal will be to demystify this vital service and give it a perspective that will be more helpful to the families required to use it. It is important for mediators, parenting coordinators, family judges and magistrates, and family attorneys to know that every court order, every request of families for intervention or action will affect generations of that client family.
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A10 – Third-Party Funding: The Elephant Not in the Room – Sheryl Mintz Goski (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
With high stakes, high cost litigation, third party funders are becoming more involved in decisions related to litigation strategy, and ultimately have a say in settlement decisions. Let us discuss how this affects our abilities as mediators to resolve matters. What are the potential conflicts concerns? How does the neutral ferret out the potential existence and interests of those third party funders? What are the potential conflicts between the parties and third parties funding their litigation? These are the issues that will be discussed in this presentation.
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A10 – Trauma-informed Mediation Practice – Aleksandra Jagiella-Litts (1.5 CME Interpersonal Violence)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
Why should a mediator be trauma informed? A Trauma Informed Practice emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety for trauma survivors while understanding the impacts of trauma. When a mediator is working with clients, it is crucial to utilize a trauma-sensitive, trauma informed approach. Any client can be a trauma survivor and trauma has a profound effect on how a case proceeds, and it can easily derail the mediation process.
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A10, Adult Teaching Techniques from Pedagogy to Andragogy, Mike Nichols (2.1 CME credits in Train the Trainer)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
A10, How Do You Deal with This!? Ethical Dilemmas During Mediation – Michelle Jernigan, Brandon Peters, Richard Reinhart, Howard Marsee (1.5 CME Credits Ethics)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
This workshop explores solutions to some real-life ethical dilemmas and practical quandaries often faced by mediators. A panel of experienced mediators explores, with audience interaction, many of the perplexing, serious, not-so-serious, and sometimes bizarre problems that vex, test and entertain the busy mediator. Attendees should come prepared to sit near the front of the room, scratch their heads, and participate.
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A10, Understanding Me, Understanding You – Evelyn Pabon Figueroa, Teeluck Persad (2.1 CME Credits Cultural/Diversity Awareness)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00This seminar will provide insight into the cultural differences between each ethnic/racial/
national community and other classifications of cultures, as well as discuss basic strategies and
tools for effectively addressing cross-cultural differences in mediation.
A11 – Hope – The Essence of Resolving Family Disputes – Robert Merlin, Zanita Zacks-Gabriel (1.5 CME Credits Family)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
Family attorneys usually see clients who are stressed and fearful about their future. The uncertainty makes it difficult for many clients to appropriately participate in settlement negotiations. This workshop will present the benefits of hope and how to give it to our clients and ourselves.
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A11 – Protect Your Mediation Practice from Hackers – Christopher Hopkins (1.5 CME Interpersonal Violence)
Price range: $15.00 through $18.00
This seminar will discuss and explain how hackers use email, website, “spoofs”, wire fraud, malware, and other forms of deception to breach your mediation company’s network and steal information, credit card, and other payment information. Keep your practice safe by learning about real life case study examples and practical hands-on ways you can protect yourself.
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