SEMINAR OVERVIEW:
You will learn how to:
• Improve your skills in mediation from
expert trial lawyers and mediators
• Handle court, as well as private,
mediations
• Prepare for the hearing, evaluate
your case, determine what demands
to make, and prepare your client for
the process
• Conduct the “trial” at the mediation
session

Which cases should you agree to mediate? How do you select a mediator? How do the mediators approach solving problems? All these issues and more will be covered by a panel experienced in the field of both private and courts mediations.

This program is designed for the trial lawyer who wants to improve his or her skills in mediation.

FACULTY:

Robert L. Conason, Esq. – Chair
Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz

Hon. Betty Weinberg Ellerin (Ret.)
Alston & Bird LLP, JAMS Mediator

Hon. Douglas E. McKeon
Presiding Justice of the Appellate Term, First Department

Bernard Londin, Esq.
Senior Court Representative at the Office of the New York City Comptroller

Shelley Rossoff Olsen, Esq.
NAM Mediator