What is your profession and title?

Attorney at Law and Mediator

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education)

Although I have conducted a litigation practice since 1974, and have been a student of negotiation and settlement since the 1980's, I have been involved in mediation since my first training in 1995. I am an approved Parenting Act Mediator, current in all S.A.D.R. Training Requirements and qualifications.

Since that first training, I have attended 90+ trainings, totaling more than 350 hours of traning.

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?

I Chair the Board of Directors of The Mediation Center, with which I am also an Affiliated Mediator. I am a Member and serve as the Secretary of the ADR Section of the Nebraska State Bar Association. And I am a Founding Member of, and also serve as the Secretary of the Nebraska Mediation Association.

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com

Opportunities for more -- and more diverse -- training and continuing mediation education. Professionally, I would also hope to be able to mediate, facilitate, and train with other Members of the Association as opportunities to do so arise. Whenever the opportunity to do so arises, I will endeavor to co-mediate with any fellow mediators.

Do you/your company have a website?

http://www.demarsgordon.com

What other ADR related sites do you visit?

Mediators Beyond Borders
Mediate.com
The Mediation Center
NAFCM -- National Association for Community Mediation
Heartland Mediators Association: HMAOrganization@everestkc.net

What else do you want to tell the ADRhub.com community (what you are up to, what you would like to do in ADR, etc.)

As an ODR-approved Parenting Act Mediator, and qualified to do S.A.D.R. cases, my goal is to do more mediations of, and litigate fewer cases involving, family law issues, especially custody cases.