Professional Background
Experience
65+ family dissolution/parenting plan mediation 300+ Business/Commercial Mediation 100+ Employment/Workplace Related Mediaiton 65+ Family dissolutions/parenting plan mediations (no longer practicing in the family mediation area) 8 hours EEO update Continuing Education required yearly.
Approach to Mediation
Primarily facilitative. I believe it is the parties dispute and to begin to assert my own values, opinions, or beliefs is to turn the mediation into a settlement conference where their personal or emotional issues are diminished or ignored completely in favor of a settlement that I orchestrate.
Fees
I bill on an hourly, half-day or full-day basis. Fees generally split by the parties. Administrative fees are billed when appropriate. This is always discussed up front. The final invoice is always based on time, so if a client has booked a full day mediation and we finish in 6 hours 45 minutes, that is the time the client will be billed for, not 8 hours.
Other Information
I have been the Co-Chair for the WSBA ADR Section Northwest Annual ADR Conference for 8 years. I was one of three Program Co-Chairs for the April 2008 ABA DR National Conference in Seattle, WA.
Areas of Practice
- ADA (5 mediated)
- Business (200 mediated)
- Civil (general) (200 mediated)
- Conflict Coaching
- Community (75 mediated)
- Contracts (100 mediated)
- Education (25 mediated)
- EEOC (75 mediated)
- Employment (100 mediated)
- General (200 mediated)
- Health Care
- Labor - Management (10 mediated)
- Landlord - Tenant (100 mediated)
- Online Mediation (200 mediated)
- Organizational (50 mediated)
- Partnership (25 mediated)
- Postal Service (75 mediated)
- Securities
- Work Place (100 mediated)
Professional Services
- Mediator
- Fact-Finder
- Mediation Consultant
- Mediation Trainer
- Systems Designer
- Online Mediator
- Facilitator
Phone: 206-399-1805