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Attorneys in Mediation
The Mediation Society, the Bar Association of San Francisco & Attorneys in Mediation: For Better or Worse Saturday, April 24, 2004 As attorneys have become more experienced in the mediation process, they have developed a greater understanding of its potential as well as a broad range of more sophisticated strategies and tactics. Thus, mediators, courts and others who arrange for mediation services in which attorneys take part are increasingly interested in how best to work with them, maximizing their positive contributions and minimizing potential detrimental effects. This program will explore these issues from the perspective of the advocates themselves, the mediators who work with them and administrators who gather information from all participants in mediation. The program will be led by two panels, the first comprised of attorneys and the second comprised of mediators, all with different mediation and advocacy styles and experience. We will also hear separately from Sheila Purcell, Director of San Mateo Court Multi-Option ADR Project. The format will be interactive.
LOCATION: DATE: COST: Early Registration by $100 Mediation Society , BASF/ADR Section, ADRNC Members (early rate).................. $125 (After $125 All Others (early rate)..................................................................................................... $150 (After No refund issued if cancellation received after Special Information: BASF CLE programs have been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education and Legal Specialization credit by the State Bar of California. The Bar Association of San Francisco is a State Bar of California certified provider. People with disabilities should feel free to contact us at 415-982-1600 regarding any reasonable accommodation.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Attorneys in Mediation: For Better or Worse (BASF EVENT CODE ADR2035) Name ____________________________________ BASF ID ______________ State Bar ID_______________ Firm _____________________________________ Charge Card Information: / / Mastercard / / Visa Address___________________________________ Account _________________________________________ City/Zip __________________________________ Exp. Date ______________ Amount Paid $ ____________ Phone _______________Fax _________________ Signature ________________________________________ Email _____________ (Please make checks payable to BASF) Mail to: q I am a member of the Mediation Society BASF ADR Services q I am a member of the BASF 465 California Street, #1100, and /or BASF ADR Section San Francisco, CA 94104 q I am a member of ADRNC (415) 982-1600 FAX (415) 989-0381 www. SFBAR.org AGENDA
Description of Panelist Presenters Mary E. Alexander, M.P.H., J.D., principal in the San Francisco firm of Mary Alexander and Associates, is Vice President of the Roscoe Pound Institute. Ms. Alexander is Immediate Past President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and is an experienced trial lawyer in personal injury, products liability and business litigation. She has received numerous awards as a top trial lawyer from the Daily Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle and the ATLA. Gary Friedman is co-founder and co-director of the Center for Mediation in Law and practitioner with Mediation Law Offices in Mill Valley, California. He is author of A Guide to Divorce Mediation (Workman Publishing) and conducts training programs in mediation and mediative approaches to the practice of law in the United States, Europe and Israel. R. Stephen Goldstein was founding President of the Mediation Society, mediates privately and on assignment from the U.S. District Court, lectures on mediation and negotiation — most recently at the International Bar Association 2003 — and is a litigation partner with Goldstein, Gellman, Melbostad, Gibson & Harris, concentrating on business and real estate matters and employment discrimination. Randolph Hall is Chief Assistant City Attorney for the City of Oakland, California. He has supervised the City Attorney Office’s Litigation Division since 1987. Mr. Hall has handled and/or supervised a wide range of litigation and transactional matters, including many police use of force civil rights, employment/personnel, breach of contract, and personal injury cases. Kenneth Hawkins is principal of Northern California based Kenneth Hawkins & Associates, and Hawkins Bay Associates, is widely recognized as a leader and innovator in conflict resolution, organizational development, diversity management and building teams for higher performance. He has conducted studies on cultural assumptions underlying the North American mediation model and is currently a faculty member for the Institute of Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon. Marjorie Heinrich is a highly experienced insurance defense attorney, currently working for State Farm’s Insurance Staff Counsel’s Office in San Francisco, handling complex personal injury litigation. She has extensive trial, mediation and arbitration experience. Debra Mellinkoff has been a professional mediator for more than 28 years. For thirteen of those years, she also practiced law in New York City and San Francisco and specialized in civil litigation. Ms. Mellinkoff conducts seminars for attorneys on using mediation proactively to resolve disputes before they escalate into litigation, and how lawyers can be effective advocates in mediation. Sheila Purcell directs the Multi-Option ADR Project, a partnership of the San Mateo Courts, bar and community with distinct programs and staff in civil, small claims, family, probate and juvenile courts. She served as the State Bar of California’s ADR Program Developer. She helped found the California Dispute Resolution Council, she served as the ABA ADR Courts Committee Co-Chair and received the ABA DR Committee of the Year award in 2001-2002 for work on the first-ever national Court ADR conference. Martin Quinn was a trial lawyer in San Francisco for over 25 years. He became a full-time JAMS panelist in 1996, where he mediates and arbitrates complex business and tort disputes, and acts as a special master and discovery referee. He teaches mediation as an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law.
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