May / June 2007
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MEDIATE OHIO
Ohio Mediation Association
www.mediateohio.org
A Bi-Monthly Publication
May/June 2007
President: Jay Patterson (614) 403-3825 E-mail: jmpmediation@ameritech.net
Immediate Past President/Mediate Ohio Editor: Shirley Cochran (614) 863-4775 E-mail: scochran@insight.rr.com
Vice President: Phil Dunfee (740) 366-3297 E-mail: phil@phildunfee.com
Treasurer: Sheri Center (614) 783-7281 E-mail: findingcommonground@yahoo.com
Secretary: Christy Radigan (614) 855-6926 E-mail: cardigan@insight.rr.comMark your Calendars for our exciting 2007 meetings!! (First Friday of the even numbered months except our conference or April meeting since it is at a facility for conferences.)
June 1, 2007 Mediation and Education: What is new? Sarah Wallis, Director
Education Programs Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management.
August 3, 2007 TBA
October 5, 2007 Mediating with Schools to Meet Needs of Children. Steve
Polovick, Mediator Ohio Department of Education Office of Exceptional Children
December 7, 2007 Probate and Guardianship Mediation. Ann L. Snyder,
Magistrate Summit County Probate Court
All meetings, except the Annual Conference, to be held at 11:30 AM at the MCL Cafeteria at Westerville and Schrock Roads in Westerville until further notice. (Directions on last page.)
Don’t forget—after each OMA bi-monthly meeting, the Case Study Group gets together to discuss a case presented by an OMA member. If you are interested in a lively discussion of different types of cases, this is the group for you. For questions or to volunteer to present a case, please contact Susan Shostak (740) 681-1031, or shostak@ohiohills.com
Ohio Loses a Champion of Mediation with Passing of Bill Clark of Columbus
In January the Dispute Resolution field lost a giant with the passing of Bill Clark. Bill was an original member of the Supreme Court of Ohio’s Committee on Dispute Resolution and a Commissioner for the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management. He also was active in the Ohio State and Columbus Bar Associations’ Committees on Dispute Resolution. Bill had been a trial lawyer who left that practice to devote himself entirely to dispute resolution and he will be greatly missed. Our sympathies go out to Bill’s family.
Ohio’s Uniform Mediation Act (UMA) Survives Its First Attack?
What Happens in Mediation Stays in Mediation.
By Shirley A. Cochran (Originally published in the Columbus Bar Lawyers Quarterly Spring 2007, Page 31.)
It started when the Corporation contacted the Mediation Center to mediate between two employees, but before that could occur, one was terminated. Then the Corporation asked the Mediation Center to help resolve conflict in the department of the former employee about avoiding problems like were created in the future. The Mediation Center’s Director sent out confidential questionnaires to the department’s employees asking for issues to be discussed, met with groups of employees, facilitated the discussion of problem areas and assisted in their resolution of the disagreements and the employees submitted to the Board a plan of action to avoid the issues raised by the situation with the former employee. Meanwhile, litigation filed in Common Pleas Court pitted Plaintiff employee against the Corporation. Counsel for Plaintiff issued a subpoena duces tecum for the Mediation Center records and testimony by the Director of the contact with Defendant Corporation. That is when I got the e-mail in response to the request made when the Uniform Mediation Act (UMA) training took place in 2005, to have anyone subpoenaed contact us to track such incidents and offer help to quash subpoenas if the mediation privilege was attacked.
The Uniform Mediation Act (UMA) was enacted by Ohio’s legislature as Chapter 2710 of the Ohio Revised Code and became effective October 29, 2005. It repealed Ohio’s former mediation privilege statute, replacing it with a very broad protection of the confidentiality of the mediation process that is a cornerstone of why mediation works. In a mediation if people know what goes on in the session will stay there, they are more likely to open up the discussion to what is really behind the dispute and be more willing to brainstorm solutions that may end the problem. To protect that confidentiality and keep the parties, mediator and nonparty participants from having to testify the UMA provides a privilege personal to each person’s position in the mediation with the mediator being able to refuse to testify about anything that happened at the mediation, with certain exceptions, and to keep others from testifying about what the mediator said during the process. Specifically, it provides: O.R.C. Section 2710.01 (A) “Mediation” means any process in which a mediator facilitates communication and negotiation between parties to assist them in reaching a voluntary agreement regarding their dispute.
2710.02 (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, sections 2710.01 to 2710.10 of the Revised Code apply to a mediation under any of the following circumstances: *** (3) The mediation parties use as a mediator an individual who holds himself or herself out as a mediator, or the mediation is provided by a person that holds itself out as providing mediation.
2710.03 (A) Except as otherwise provided in section 2710.05 of the Revised Code, a mediation communication is privileged as provided in division (B) of this section and is not subject to discovery or admissible in evidence in a proceeding unless waived or precluded as provided in section 2710.04 of the Revised Code. *** (B) In a proceeding, the following privileges apply: *** (2) A mediator may refuse to disclose a mediation communication. A mediator may prevent any other person from disclosing a mediation communication of the mediator.
In other words, if a person facilitates communication and negotiation between parties in dispute, assisting them in reaching voluntary agreement about the dispute and holds themselves out to be a mediator, the privilege is theirs to assert to keep them from having to testify in discovery or in a proceeding.
It appeared fairly obvious that although there were two different instances involved, the Mediation Center staff attempted to facilitate the communication and negotiation between parties in dispute (originally Plaintiff employee and a member of Defendant’s staff; secondly between members of Defendant’s staff in the department), assisted them in reaching voluntary agreement about the dispute (no agreement in the first instance as the session was never held; voluntary agreement in the second instance); the Mediation Center staff held themselves out as mediators, and the Mediation Center staff believed confidentiality is very important to the mediation process.
Plaintiff’s counsel did not see it that way. He asserted the Director acted as a consultant and although he never explained what that meant, he felt if this privilege was permitted to stand all sorts of consultants could go into businesses and by using “magic words” keep from having to testify about anything that went on. A copy of testimony in a deposition of one of Defendant Corporation’s employees was provided as proof that there was no mediation when the meetings with the departmental staff took place, but it was not clear why he thought that it was proof there was no mediation. A heated telephone conversation took place after the filing of the motion for a protection order where he made accusations of perverting the true meaning of the UMA, but in the end, Plaintiff’s counsel withdrew the subpoena in a formal court filing making the motion moot while reiterating his accusation of frivolousness and perversion of the UMA. It was not a pretty win; but a win nonetheless.
Should anyone be aware of any other subpoenas issued for anyone to testify about a mediation communication, please contact me or Maria Mone Executive Director Ohio Commission on Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution so we can be consistent in responses to attacks on Ohio’s mediation privilege statute.
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Shirley A. Cochran is an attorney and mediator in Columbus. She is Immediate Past President of the Ohio Mediation Association and former chair of both the Columbus Bar and Ohio State Bar Associations’ committee on Dispute Resolution. She was involved in creation of the original privilege statute and the passage of the UMA in Ohio, serving as one of the trainers of mediators through funding from the Supreme Court of Ohio as well as the Commission on Dispute Resolution.
Monthly Presenters for OMA
by Sandra Fredrick
I wanted to let the members of the Ohio Mediation Association aware that I will be coordinating the monthly presenters for our organization. I am very interested in any appealing presenters and if you feel you have a new program or approach that you would want to share with your peers it would be appreciated. Please contact me with ideas as well The following are ways to contact me: Sandra Fredrick, (937) 225-4099 or I can be reached by e-mail at fredricks@mc.ohio.org I look forward to hearing from you
OMA Conference 2007 “Being a Better Mediator” Big Hit
As the conclusion to Ohio’s Conflict Management Week, the Ohio Mediation Association’s Annual Conference “Being a Better Mediator” was held on Friday, May 11, 2007. One hundred people came to hear Nina Meierding present on questioning and impasse resolution at the Riffe Center in Columbus. Participants were the first to receive the new OMA pen and a drawing was for books by Bernie Meyer. Winners were Barbara Dixon, Judith Thomas, Laura Tonsic, Patti Smith, Terry Wheeler, Joe Palmer, Marcie Vendetti, Joe Natalie, Kristine Hayes, Bonnie Edwards, and Kendal Isaac. According to the evaluations, the presentation was more than most anticipated and was very well received. The Better World Award was presented as set out in the following article and the officers gave their reports at the business meeting at lunch. A good and educational time was had by all.
Better World Award 2007 Recipient Marya Cody Kolman
Nominated by Sheri Center
Marya Cody Kolman has been the Director of Mediation Services for the Franklin County Domestic Relations Court and Juvenile Branch since 1999. Through Marya’s vision, energy and persistence, she expanded the programs provided by the department and offered services for never married parents, post divorce parenting time disputes, juvenile domestic violence, and truancy, along with continuing to maintain the already established mediation programs.
Marya has nurtured and continues to offer an apprenticeship program for mediators pursing the Supreme Court of Ohio requirements to mediate divorce. Along with support from staff and volunteers, Marya offers basic mediation training classes at no charge for the participants and throughout the year she speaks, trains and teaches in many different venues to many people from many different walks of life, including teaching at The Ohio State University Law School as an adjunct Professor. Marya is very active with the Association for Conflict Resolution and has been dynamic on the Conference Committee for several years, as well as part of the Family Section. She has recently received recognition for her invaluable contributions from ACR, and from the Capital University Conference for Minority Professionals to whom she contributes significantly each year.
Marya Kolman’s generosity of spirit with her staff, the programs she has brought to the court’s mediation department, the mediation opportunities she has made a available for volunteers and contract mediators, her love of mediation and devotion to promoting opportunities that allow for both the access to mediation for the citizens of this community and the persons interesting in pursing mediation as an avocation is absolutely extraordinary and awe-inspiring and has contributed to making this a better world.
Mediate Ohio Material: Please send material for Mediate Ohio by the 20th of the even numbered months to permit publication in the newsletter. The next deadline is June 20, 2007. My address is 2897 Liberty Bell Lane, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 Phone/fax: (614) 863-4775 E-mail: scochran@insight.rr.com Thanks, Shirley Cochran, Editor
Job Announcements: There are some announcements that become available for the meetings. Be sure to attend the meeting and check Mediate Ohio for openings we might receive notice of and if you have a position you would like to have listed, provide it by the deadline to the Editor. In addition, watch for e-mails from the OMA President. An additional website to check is at Mediate.com: http://www.mediate.com/jobs/
THE MEDIATION COUNCIL OF GREATER CINCINNATI
The Mediation Council of Greater Cincinnati, which has been in existence since the mid-1980’s, is a networking organization of mediators who live or practice in the greater Cincinnati area. The group meets at noon on the second Wednesday of each month from September – May to learn about matters of interest and share information. Members as well as non-members are welcome to attend the meetings; annual membership fees are $15.00. Meeting Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location : The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati* Rookwood Tower (5th Floor) 3805 Edwards Road, Suite 500 *Health Foundation will not allow food to be brought in to its facility. Please Note: with the exception of the September meeting, the following schedule of presenters and topics may be subject to change. Join the Mediation Council for monthly meeting reminders with updated information.
If you have questions or need information, contact Marie Bader at 859-380-2137
Association for Conflict Resolution News
Mark your calendar to join colleagues and friends at the Association for Conflict Resolution Seventh Annual Conference “Rethinking the Table: People, Places and Practices” October 24-27, 2007 Held at the Phoenix Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Phoenix Hotel in beautiful downtown Phoenix, Arizona Program, hotel and travel information will be posted at www.ACRnet.org as details become available.
Conflict Resolution Day Facts at a Glance:
- 2007 will mark the third annual celebration of Conflict Resolution Day
- In 2006, there were at least 22 official proclamations from states, counties and cities recognizing Conflict Resolution Day
- The conflict resolution day logo of a tree was designed to match the intention for Conflict Resolution Day to grow organically from the “grassroots.”
- Conflict Resolution Day 2006 was celebrated in North America, South America, the Caribbean and Europe
Conflict Resolution Day 2007 is October 18. How will you celebrate? For great ideas and listings of past events, visit www.ACRnet.org/crday.
Upcoming ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Sponsored Events:
August 9-11, 2007 ABA Annual Meeting San Francisco California
April 2-5, 2008 Tenth Annual Section of Dispute Resolution Conference Sheraton Seattle, Washington
August 7-9, 2008 ABA Annual Meeting New York
April 15-18, 2009 Eleventh Annual Section of Dispute Resolution Conference Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers New York
July 30-August 1, 2009 ABA Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois
Renewing, New Members and Additions/Corrections to the Directory (not the entire list of members—see the directory at our web site for that list): New and renewing members may send applications to Immediate Past President, Shirley Cochran at 2897 Liberty Bell Lane, Reynoldsburg OH 43068. Contact Shirley for membership applications. A membership application can be sent electronically for your convenience or you can download it from the OMA website www.mediateohio.org If there is a correction or an addition, please let Shirley know but only you can correct the directory on the website. If you have misplaced your membership number and password, please contact Christy Radigan for assistance.
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Mediated Solutions 2720 Airport Drive Columbus OH 43219 |
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| Adams, Scioto & Pike (ASAP) Mediation c/o Sharon Bell
602 7th Street, 4th Floor Portsmouth OH 45662 |
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| George Albu Commissioner Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service
1682 Schrock Road Columbus OH 43229 |
(614) 794-9047
Fax: (614) 794-5998 |
| Artz & Dewhirst, LLP c/o Terrence T. Wheeler 560 E. Town Street Columbus OH 43215 |
(614) 221-0944
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| Thomas L. Bailey, Jr.
Capital Mediation Associates 445 Hutchinson Ave. Suite 800 Columbus OH 43235 |
(614) 410-3370
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| Better Business Bureau of Dayton/Miami Valley, Inc.
c/o Steven Popp |
(937) 610-2263 Fax (937) 222-3338 |
| Barton A. Bixenstine, Esq.
Ulmer & Berne, LLP 1660 W. 2nd St., Suite 1100 |
(216) 583-7032
Fax: (216) 583-7033 |
| Sheri Center Finding Common Ground P.O. Box 13786 Columbus OH 43209-1866 |
(614) 783-7281
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| Center for Resolution Of Disputes, Inc. c/o Jerry H. Lawson President 8 West Ninth Street Cincinnati OH 45202-2036 |
(513) 721-4466
Fax (513) 721-3383 |
| Catholic Charities
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(419) 244-6711 ext. 410
Fax: (419) 244-4860 |
| Cincinnati Better Business Bureau c/o Christine Baker
7 West 7th Street, Suite 1600 Cincinnati OH 45202 |
(513) 639-9132
Fax: (513) 621-0907 |
| Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio c/o Shelley Whalen 67 Jefferson Avenue, 2nd Floor Columbus OH 43215 |
(614) 228-7191
Fax (614) 228-7213 |
| Dr. Christopher Cottrell
953 Sapphire Flame Drive Delaware OH 43015 |
(740) 990-9589 |
| Crime Victim Services c/o David Voth 116 W. North Street Lima OH 45801-4311 |
(419) 222-8666
Fax: (419) 227-7478 |
| John J. Cruze Hamilton Co. Common Pleas ADR
1000 Main St. Room 450 |
(513) 256-6642
Fax: (513) 946-5477 |
| James J. Cullers
920 Club Drive Mount Vernon OH 43050 |
(740) 392-0391
Fax: (740) 392-0391 |
| Phillip Dunfee 1407 Morgan Bryan Drive Newark OH 43055 |
(740) 366-3297 |
| Brenda English #C8
5415 Yorkshire Terrace Drive Columbus OH 43232 |
Work (614) 461-0256 Fax (614) 461-1256 Home (614) 861-9236 englishb@sconet.state.oh.us |
| Mark Farmer
401 E. Schrock Road Westerville OH 43081 |
(614) 519-8703 |
| Maara Fink University of Toledo College of Law 2801 Bancroft Street Toledo OH 43606 |
(419) 530-4236
Fax: (419) 530-2605 |
| Ernie Fischer
508 Stedway Court Gahanna OH 43230 |
(614) 476-3779 (home)
Cell (614) 499-1037 |
| Sandra Mendel Furman One Easton Oval, Suite 500 Columbus OH 43219 |
(614) 416-5611
Fax (614) 416-5770 |
| Martha Green Athens County Court of Common Pleas
1 S. Court Street, 4th Floor Athens OH 45701 |
(740) 592-3220 |
| Jessica M. Harmon
Harmon ADR Services 98 Kelly Marie Drive Pataskala OH 43062 |
(614) 403-3590 |
| Wendy S. Hawbaker Ashtabula County Joint Court Mediation Project 25 West Jefferson St.
Jefferson OH 44047 |
(440) 576-3239
Fax: (440) 576-4639 |
| Kristine L. Hayes, Attorney at Law Easton Town Center
4200 Regent St., Suite 200 Columbus OH 43219-6140 |
(614) 944-5170
Fax: (614) 453-5389 |
| Marie Hill
2004 Forestcrest Way Cincinnati OH 45244 |
(513) 378-8548 |
| Kathleen P. Hoenie Family Matters Mediation Services 2227 Buckley Road Columbus OH 43220-4613 |
(614) 457-3177
Fax (614) 457-3177 |
| Jeff Hutson Two Miranova Place Suite 500 Columbus OH 43215 |
(614) 233-4747
Fax (614) 228-0146 |
| The Isaac Firm
c/o Kendall Isaac 5300 E. Main St. Ste. 103 Columbus OH 43213 |
(614) 755-6540
Fax: (614) 755-6542 |
| Francie Kaufman c/o Columbus Medical Assn. 431 E. Broad Street Columbus OH 43215 |
(614) 240-7410
Fax (614) 240-7415 |
| Faye Sutton List 42857 N. Ridge Road Elyeria OH 44035 |
(440) 324-9619
Fax: (440) 324-9001 |
| Lorain County Court Civil Mediation Office
c/o Gail Ignatz-Hoover 225 Court Street, Room 301 Elyria OH 44035 |
(440) 328-2250
Fax: (440) 328-2252 |
| Sharon Maerten-Moore 14 South Paint Street, Suite 38 Chillicothe OH 45601 |
(740) 779-6662
Fax: (740) 779-6665 |
| Michael E. Masterson Hamilton Co. Domestic Relations Court
800 Broadway, 2nd Floor Cincinnati OH 45202 |
(513) 946-9138
Fax: (513) 946-9142 |
| Frederick Meister 150 E. Mound St., Suite 200 Columbus OH 43215-5429 |
(614) 221-1644
Fax: (614) 221-1696 |
| Miami County Juvenile Court Tom Bomhard
201 West Main Street Troy OH 45373 |
(937) 440-5970
Fax: (937) 440-5971 |
| Margaret E. Honore Miller Mediation Services of South Central Ohio 15 N. Paint St., Suite 203 Chillicothe OH 45601 |
(740) 775-0333 x 115
Fax: (740) 775-2512 |
| Montgomery County Domestic Relations Court c/o Sandra Frederick P.O. Box 972, 301 W. Third Street, 2nd Floor Dayton OH 45422-4248 |
(937) 225-4099
Fax (937) 225-5017
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| Joseph E. Natalie 452 W. Lawndale Place Zanesville OH 43701-3950 |
(740) 454-0811 |
| Nancy R. Nickey, Mediation Services of Franklin County 5616 Hensel Woods Road Gahanna OH 43230-1811 |
(614) 855-5233
Fax (614) 855-5233 |
| Ohio State University College of Law Professor Sarah Cole
55 West 12th Avenue |
(614) 688-4918
F (614) 292-2035 |
| Joseph R. Palmer, Ph.D. Mediation Services of Ohio 536 S. Third Street Columbus OH 43215 |
(614) 228-5515
Fax (614) 461-0066 |
| Jennifer A. Patterson Center for Public Mgt. & Regional Affairs Miami Univ. 2 Harrison Hall Oxford OH 45056 |
(513) 529-6923
Fax: (513) 529-6939 |
| Marcie Patzak-Vendetti Mahoning Co. Juvenile Court
300 E. Scott Street Youngstown OH 44505 |
(330) 740-2244 ext. 6408
Fax: (330) 742-5899 |
| David Wade Peck Barron, Peck Bennie, & Schlemmer Co. L.P.A. 3074 Madison Road Cincinnati OH 45209 |
(513) 533-2002
Fax (513) 721-2401 |
| Christy K. Radigan
7058 Dean Farm Road |
(614) 855-6926 (home)
Fax (614) 855-2798 |
| John Randle, Sr.
3822 Hickory Rock Drive Powell OH 43065 |
(740) 917-9445 |
| Carolyn Streit Roehrig
10428 Lee’s Creek Road Harrison OH 45030 |
(513) 246-0511
Fax: (513) 246-0525 |
| Susan Grody Ruben 30799 Pinetree Road, #226 Cleveland OH 44124 |
(216) 464-4060
Fax: (216) 595-5274 |
| Vivian T. Russell 1504 Venice Drive Columbus OH 43207 |
(614) 491-5597
Fax (614) 491-3404 |
| Susan E. Shostak 248 Pearl Avenue North Lancaster OH 43130 |
(740) 681-1031
Fax (740) 689-3631 |
| Patti Smith 3478 Run Around Road Junction City OH 43748 |
(740) 987-7466
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| John C. Spille 3200 N. Whitetree Circle Cincinnati OH 45236 |
(513) 794-1137 |
| Summit County DR Court c/o Edward Schneider 205 South High Street Akron OH 44308 |
(330) 643-5456 |
| Jerry Sutton
1405 Glen View Road Yellow Springs OH 45387 |
(937) 243-8501 |
| Leslie Swift, Ph.D. 7654 Montgomery Road Cincinnati OH 45236 |
(513) 791-8849
Fax (513) 791-8873 |
| Diane Tedeschi On Track Disability Management 5284 Lola Way Columbus OH 43235 |
(614) 459-0826
Fax: (614) 459-4720 |
| Edward E. Turner 65 E. State Street, 12th Floor Columbus OH 43215-4213 |
(614) 644-8716
Fax (614) 466-3074 |
| Barbara A. Venesy, Law Offices of Barbara A. Venesy
2741 Foxwood Drive |
(330) 864-6060
Fax (330) 864-6060 |
| Jerome F. Weiss, Mediation, Inc. 1600 Midland Building
101 Prospect Avenue W. Cleveland OH 44115 |
(216) 589-9995
Fax: (216) 589-9723 |
| Shelley Whalen Community Mediation Serv. of Central Ohio 67 Jefferson Avenue, 2nd Floor Columbus OH 43215 |
(614) 228-7191
Fax (614) 228-7213 |
| Wayne Wisniewski MA Greene Co. Family & Children First
158 E. Main Street Xenia OH 45385 |
(937) 562-5600
Fax: (937) 562-5601 |
| Robert N. Wistner, JD
5650 Blazer Parkway, Suite 100 Dublin OH 43017 |
(614) 734-8354
Fax: (614) 717-9586 |
| Union Co. Common Pleas Ct. Kathryn L. Wollenburg, Esq. Mediation Director
221 W. Fifth St., Ste. #337 Marysville OH 43040 |
(937) 645-4176
Fax: (937) 645-4174 |
TRAINING & WORKSHOPS:
Free UMA training with CLE credits—June 19, 2007 from 12:30-5:00 PM in Waverly Ohio. Call (740) 355-8368 for reservations and speak with either Sharon Bell or GR Hamm.
Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio and the Columbus Bar Association Basic Mediation Training June 13 & 14, or September 12 & 13, 2007 and 40 Hour Domestic Mediation Training October 3, 4, 9, 10, & 11, 2007. Presenter Shelley Whalen, Executive Director of CMS and a past president of OMA Training site 91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus OH, the Thurber Center CLE and CEU’s Contact CMS (614) 228-7191 or www.communitymediation.com Fax: (614) 228-7213 Mailing address: 67 Jefferson Avenue, 2nd Floor, Columbus OH 43215.
Capital University Law School Center for Dispute Resolution
Center for Dispute Resolution, Capital Law School, 303 E Broad Street, Columbus OH 43215-3200, Phone (614) 236-6430/ Fax (614) 236-6956 CDR Directors include Roberta S Mitchell and Scot E Dewhirst, Co-Directors of the Center, and Terrence T Wheeler, Executive Director of the Center. Please visit our website at www.law.capital.edu/disputeresolution to gain more detailed information on our trainings or to register on-line.
Cleveland Mediation Center United Office Building, Suite 906 2012 West 25th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 2005 Presenters include Dan Joyce and Wendy Hawbaker For further information on all training contact: Bob Curtis, Training Co-coordinator Phone: (216) 621-1919, extension 500 Fax: (216) 621-3202 E-Mail training@clevelandmediation.org .
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Presents: 20th Annual Professional Skills Program, June 21-23, 2007, Malibu, California Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Pepperdine Law School present an annual three day program featuring twelve courses addressing distinct dispute resolution processes. Course offerings range from basic to advanced courses, as well as specialized areas of mediation. For program content, faculty bios, and cost, please visit our website at: straus.pepperdine.edu and click on “Mediation Training and Conferences” or call (310) 506-6342.
Family Mediation Series Presented by the Northern Virginia Mediation Service June 11-16 and June 18-21 This intensive family series will cover the topics needed to practice family mediation in a variety of contexts, including mediating issues in divorce as well as disputes within intact family units. This series builds upon the learning from the basic Mediation Skills and Process workshop and prepares participants to begin the co-mediations needed for Virginia Certification. Please note that additional workshops are needed to complete the NVMS Certificate in Family Mediation. For more information on additional requirements visit our web page http://www.nvms.us or call us at (703) 993-3724.
Pepperdine University School of Law presents A World Class View of Dispute Resolution, the 20th Annual Professional Skills Program with seventeen courses, thirty-seven faculty, over 300 participants from around the world, two and a half days of interactive dialogue and in cooperation with Mediate.com. Woodstock, Vermont co-sponsored by Vermont Law School, October 4-6, 2007. To register or for more information, visit straus.pepperdine.edu or call Lori Rushford at 310.506.6342.
Web Sites of Interest:
Ohio Mediation Association: www.mediateohio.org
Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management: www.disputeresolution.ohio.gov/
Ohio State Bar Association: www.ohiobar.org
Mediation Association of Northeast Ohio (MANO) www.manomediate.org
DIRECTIONS TO OMA MEMBERSHIP MEETING LOCATION—MCL CAFETERIA
Schrock & Westerville Roads, Westerville Phone: (614) 818-1700
All meetings begin at 11:00 AM with the program immediately following
From Western Ohio: Take I-70 East to I-270 North Two exits past I-71 is Westerville Road Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center
From Southwestern Ohio: Take I-71 North through town to I-270 East two exits to Westerville Road Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center
From Northern Ohio: Take I-71 South to I-270 East two exits to Westerville Road Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center
From Eastern Ohio: Take I-70 West to I-270 North to the Westerville Road exit Take the part of the exit that will take you north on Westerville Road Either turn right at Schrock Road, left at the light at Otterbein Road, and left into the shopping center (first driveway on left) or cross Schrock Road to next light, turn right into shopping center and follow driveway to far end of the center