TELECONFERENCE

ABA DR Book Club: Stories Mediators Tell November 19, 2013

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Eastern Time

Please join us for a discussion of the bestselling book, Stories Mediators Tell. This book is a collection of fascinating stories of overcoming challenges and resolving conflicts from practicing mediators. These stories of real mediations cover a wide range of conflicts from the funny to the poignant and heartbreaking. These true experiences offer priceless insights for practicing mediators and mediation advocates.

Moderator:

Joan Stearns Johnsen, JSJ Mediations, Boston, MA

Speakers:

Eric Galton, Lakeside Mediation Center, Austin, TX
Lela Love, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY

Price:

$75 – ABA Section of Dispute Resolution members $130 – ABA members
$150 – General/Non-members

$50 – DR Section members in Public Interest or Government Service
$99 – Non-members in Public Interest or Government Service

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**Please note: In order to protect your credit card information, the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution will no longer accept credit card payments via fax, email or mail. You are encouraged to use the online registration system for credit card payments. We will continue to accept checks, money orders and purchase orders (from government agencies).
Registration Deadline – November 18, 2013

CLE Information: The ABA will seek 1.25 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute-hour states and 1.50 hours of CLE credit in 50-minute-hour states in states accrediting ABA live webinars and teleconferences.* Credit hours granted are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

NY-licensed attorneys: This non-transitional CLE program has been approved for experienced NY-licensed attorneys in accordance with the requirements of the New York State CLE Board for 1.5 for 75-minute program New York CLE credits.

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Eric Galton

Eric Galton has been mediating for over 24 years and has mediated over 7000 cases and arbitrated over 100 disputes. Eric is a founding partner of the Lakeside Mediation Center in Austin, Texas. In 1991, Eric’s first book, Representing Clients at Mediation, won a CPR best book. Since that time, Galton has published 4 books about mediation, including his recent ABA collaboration with Professor Lela Love, Stories Mediators tell. Galton’s books have been translated into five languages. Galton has been named a SuperLawyer in ADR 7 consecutive years and received Texas Lawyers coveted Go To award in mediation. He is listed in Who’s Who in Commercial Mediation and is a Martindale Hubble Preeminent AV lawyer. Galton served on the board of the Texas Association of Mediators and is a Texas Distinguished Credentialed Mediator. Eric is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine School of Law and served as an adjunct professor at University of Texas School of Law. Galton is the current President of the International Academy of Mediators and has served on its board for five years. Galton lives in Austin with his wife, Kimberlee Kovach, his five children, and his beloved 105 pound labradoodle, Emmy Lou Kovach-Galton.

Joan Stearns Johnsen

Joan Stearns Johnsen is a mediator and arbitrator. For the past twenty years, Joan has concentrated her practice in the field of ADR. She is a frequent speaker and trainer having presented on various topics for the NASD/FINRA, PLI, ALI/ABA, The ABA, Westlaw, the Union International des Avocats, The New York Academy of Trial Attorneys, Association for Conflict Resolution, and for The Bar of the City of New York where Joan will be presenting a full day negotiation training in the spring. Joan is on the faculty of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s Advanced Mediator Training and a regular speaker for the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Section Monthly Teleconference Programs. She has been program chair and moderator for such topics as Neuroscience in Negotiation, E-mail Negotiation, The Future of Mandatory Arbitration and the Arbitration Fairness Act and Ethics in Negotiation. Joan has spoken and written extensively on Telephone Mediation for the ABA, Practising Law Institute, and for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Joan also is an accredited provider of CLE in New York State and has presented her negotiation programs to such firms as Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Wells Fargo, the Licensing Executive Society, and the Counselors of Real Estate Joan has written numerous articles and recently published an article on Deal Mediation in the Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues. Joan is a member of the ABA’s Section of Dispute Resolution’s Council and Co-Chair of the Section’s CLE Program.

Joan began her career as an enforcement attorney with the CFTC in Washington, D.C. She also was in-house at Smith Barney and the Commodity Exchange in New York. Most recently Joan was a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of Albany Law School’s Securities Arbitration Clinic where in addition to the Clinic, Joan taught Negotiation and ADR.

Lela Love

Lela Porter Love is Professor of Law and Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She started one of the first law school mediation clinics in the U.S.; regularly conducts mediation and arbitration training programs, teaching both nationally and internationally; and has an active practice as a neutral, ranging from community disputes to complex litigated matters. She has written widely on the topic of dispute resolution, including co-authoring three law school textbooks, and mediated a simulated product liability dispute for COURT TV. She co-authored, with Joseph Stulberg, The Middle Voice: Mediating Conflict Successfully and has recently co-edited, with Eric Galton, Stories Mediators Tell. She is a past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution. Both the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and the International Academy of Mediators have presented her with Lifetime Achievement Awards. She received her B.A. from Harvard University, M.Ed. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and J.D. from Georgetown University Law School.