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1015 18th St., NW
Suite 1150
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 215-860-3991
Fax: 215-860-3992

 


ACR New Jersey Chapter
ACR NJ Chapter
 

 

Arthur L. Finkle, Chapter President     
Phone: 215-860-3991
Fax: 215-860-3992
E-mail:
afinkle221@comcast.net


 
 

Don Dileo, President-Elect

AFSCME

Phone: 609-585-0554

E-mail: zebec13@aol.com

 

Lisa Ciccone, Secretary

IFPTE, Local 195

Phone: 732-3900356

          E-mail: lisa@local195.org

Michele Leibtag, Treasurer

CWA, Local 1034

1 Lower Ferry Road

Trenton, NJ 08618

609-530-0060

E-mail: mleibtag@cwa1034.org

 

DIVERSITY REPRESENTATIVES                       

McKinley Williams       mckinley.williams@dhs.state.nj.us,                        

Tim Rudolph               tim@local195.org   COLLEGE CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVE

Timothy J. Prol           timjp@excite.com



Latest Bulletin

 

Calling all members to attend a virtual seminar!

We are invited to a telemesinar, entitled “Three keys to Unlocking Mediator Income.” Dina Lynch will conduct the teleseminar. No charge.

Who is Dina Lynch?

A dynamic business pioneer, Dina owned three successful dispute resolution companies. Her newest startup, ADRPracticeBuilder.com, started in May, 2006, at the encouragement of many colleagues and newcomers to the field.

Dina has made her living working full time in the field for more than a decade. With a keen interest in business, Dina attended the executive program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University. She was recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of Boston's best business leaders in 2000.

Dina's career includes work as a mediator, trainer, facilitator and Ombuds. Currently Dina is an external Ombuds for clients in the fields of law, academia and manufacturing. She was a senior vice president and Corporate Ombudsman for the former Fleet Bank.

Her work was featured in Inc Magazine, Costco Connection Entrepreneur Magazine as well as in international publications.

Dina has a Juris Doctorate and over one hundred hours of dispute resolution education. She is an active member of New England- Association of Conflict Resolution (ACR), ACR national and currently serves as one of the Tri-Chairs of the Workplace Section. She is also a member of the International Ombudsman Association. Dina has lectured on business and marketing at several conflict resolution conferences.

Dina can be reached:

Dina Beach Lynch
http://www.workwelltogether.com and http://www.mediationmensch.blogspot.com

DINA@ADRPRACTICEBUILDER.COM

ADRPracticebuilder.com will solicit a membership site.  Afterwards, every registrant will receive a recording of the call and a special invitation to join ADRPB as a Charter Member at a 50% discount.  At $45.50 for a full year -that's a great bargain. But there is absolutely no obligation.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has provisions covering service providers in addition to the employment provisions we’re more familiar with in our business. Mediators and arbitrators, like doctors and lawyers, are service providers who are responsible for making their services available to persons with disabilities. Often the parties and/or their representatives will ensure access. However, upon request or the reasonable knowledge of a need, the arbitrator or mediator (or a person serving in another neutral capacity) is responsible for ensuring access.

As a practical matter, this issue arises most often for wheelchair users, the deaf/hard-of-hearing and the blind. At a minimum, the wheelchair user must have access to parking, the mediation or hearing site and to a bathroom at the mediation/hearing location. Those legally blind must be afforded a touch (Braille) or hearing version of all information in addition to appropriate ways to find the mediation/hearing site such as being met and guided or in elevators with accommodation for the blind. The deaf/hard-of-hearing must be provided “effective communication” which may be a written version of everything that’s said (such as “realtime” reporting available through many court reporting firms), all communication in writing, “face time” for lip-readers or an appropriate sign language interpreter competent in the appropriate sign language (which is most often American Sign Language or ASL in the United States). Some commercial interpreting companies have sign language interpreters available. Other ready resources are courts or associations/organizations of or providing services to the deaf/hard-of-hearing. Assistive animals must be admitted/permitted even if other animals are not.

If there is a cost to providing access, that cost must be absorbed by the service provider. It cannot be passed to the parties! A service provider cannot refuse to provide service because there is a cost to doing so. This most often becomes an issue with sign language interpreters, who may charge higher fees than the service provider receives. The loss in those cases to the service provider is simply a cost of doing business. Although it is tempting to want a friend or family member to do the sign language interpreting, this is a choice that may only be made by the deaf or hard-of-hearing person and may not be required of them.

    

Middlebury College’s Mediation Website

Middlebury College joins the ranks of academic institutions will some rreat information, Its website: http://www.masteringmediation.net/

A party may not share confidential mediation materials, and giving such materials to experts will result in the experts being disqualified from testifying, a federal court in Michigan held.

In Irwin Seating Company v. International Business Machines Corporation, No. 1:04-CV-568, 2006 WL 3446584 (W.D.
Mich. Nov. 29, 2006), Irwin and IBM participated in a voluntary mediation in an attempt to settle their dispute.

At trial, Irwin presented two expert witnesses to testify as to IBM’s liability and Irwin’s damages. However, IBM asked the court to throw out the testimony of both experts because Irwin provided the experts with confidential documents from the mediation proceeding.

The Court agreed with IBM and held that the experts could not testify. The Court noted that all the documents in question were subject to the settlement confidentiality privilege. Additionally, although the experts claimed to have relied on the documents only for background information, the Court noted that there was no way to tell if the confidential mediation materials impacted their assessments.

Reported by:

Colm Brannigan, C. Med.

Mediate.ca

BRAMPTON, Ontario, CANADA

http://www.acrnet.org/news/archivesum.php?view=category

Peacemakers' Tool Kit

PeaceJournalism.com
July, 2006
Posted on July 18, 2006
Rene Wadlow

What makes a successful peacemaker is a way of thinking, a set of values, an array of analytical and interpersonal skills, and a clear focus.

Peacemakers' Tool Kit is a series of book reviews on conflict resolution which highlight skills and avenues of peacemaking.

http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=9677

ACR Members Present on Conflict Transformation in Multicultural settings

As part of Guilford College's Peace and Conflict Studies Department PECS Alumni series, Dr. Vernie Davis, ACR member, welcomed Mark Wilson and Dr. Mark Davidheiser to speak to Guilford students and members of the community, observe classes, and meet with the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Project.

ACR staff member Mark Wilson, a 2000 graduate of Guilford College, spoke about his experiences in the Peace Corps, where he lived in Senegal for two years, and with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as well as National Certification now being considered by ACR in conjunction with the ABA and AAA.

ACR member Dr. Mark Davidheiser, also a Guilford Alum, spoke about his experiences with conflict resolution in different cultures and across the globe as well as his doctorate research on conflict resolution in different cultures.

The three days of events were well attended by ACR's North Carolina Chapter, and supported by member Deborah Isenhour.

Workshop helps students resolve their problems

“The workshop is in its sixth year and is designed to train students
how to help their fellow students resolve conflicts without violence…
“In response to concerns about teen-age violence, many schools are
implementing peer mediation programs which teach resolution of conflicts
through good communication techniques,”
explained Kay Garrett, assistant professor of communications at SMSU-WP
and one of the workshop organizers. “At the camp students are trained
to mediate their peers when conflicts arise. Students involved in conflicts
at school may request mediation by one of these trained students or may
be referred to mediation by another student. Together with their peer
mediators, the students work to find a solution they can accept in order
to resolve their conflict.”
Full story at: http://tinyurl.com/ymo9pj



ADR Professionals Listing

Name Address Phone # E-mail
Bucci, Armand Praesto Group, PO Box 565 Voorhees, NJ 08043 856-642-4042 armandbucci@alum.drexel.edu

Jakob Dombroff
814 Park Ave Elizabeth, NJ 07208

dombroff10@yahoo.com
Farrell, Thomas N. 4 Morningside Dr Trenton, NJ 8618 609-984-2337 thomas.farrell@judiciary.state.nj.us
Finkle, Arthur 209 Shady Brook Dr, Langhorne, PA 19047 609-292-9896 afinkle221@comcast.net
Force, Marcia T. 352 Bloomfield Ave., Unit A-3 Verona, NJ 07044 (973)857-1939 mpforce@comcast.net
Hanan M. Isaacs 601 Ewing St., Suite C-12 Princeton, NJ 08540 609.683.7400 hanan.isaacs@verizon.net
Williams, McKinley 222 S. Warren St Trenton, NJ 08625 609-292-9267 mckinley.williams@dhs.state.nj.us,




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