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Join us as Professor Robert A. Baruch Bush presents the Transformative Approach to Conflict & Mediation: Three Dimensions. Click HERE to preview a portion of the presentation.

About Robert A. Baruch Bush

Rains Distinguished Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University; Co-Founder and Board Member, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation.

Professor Bush’s scholarship and teaching focuses on mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He is one of the originators of the “Transformative Approach” to mediation, as explained in his best-selling book, The Promise of Mediation (1994, 2d ed. 2005), co-

authored with Dr. Joseph Folger and translated into six languages. Bush has practiced, taught and written about mediation for over 40 years, authoring five books and more than thirty articles/chapters on mediation and ADR. His latest article is “Hiding in Plain Sight: Mediation and the Value of Human Agency.” In 2017, Bush received (together with co-author and colleague Joseph Folger), the Association of Conflict Resolution’s “William Kreidler Award for Distinguished Service to the field of Conflict Resolution.”

About the Hosts/ Interviewers:

Richard Erhard

Richard Erhard is Principal | Owner of the consulting firm, Richard Erhard and Associates, LLC, providing mediation and consultation services focusing on educational disputes. Mr. Erhard’s clients include public school agencies, private parties and non-profit agencies in California and New Mexico. He is currently an Associate member of the American Bar Association and San Diego County Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections. Mr. Erhard also serves on the board of directors of the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA),where he served as Program Director in 2019/20. In 2021, he assumed the position as President Elect and Co-Chair of the Program Committee and in 2022, Mr. Erhard assumed the Presidency of the SCMA. In addition to his private dispute resolution practice and membership with multiple non-profit Boards, Mr. Erhard serves on the adjunct faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law, Center for Conflict Resolution, as a lecturer in law. Here, Mr. Erhard teaches courses in special education dispute resolution and directed research.

Jennifer Johnson Terando, Esq.

Jennifer's career is well rounded, dating back to her obtaining her B.S.N, with honors from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University twenty years ago and continuing on through her scholarship to Case Western Reserve University School of Law where she obtained her J.D. with a certificate in health law from the perennially recognized Law and Medicine Center and served as an associate editor on the Health Matrix: Journal of Law and Medicine. Before forming a boutique firm, Jennifer worked at law firms in Los Angeles and Chicago.

She is admitted to the state bars of California and Illinois and has completed the Los Angeles County Bar Association's mediation training and mediation training at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University. Jennifer serves as a mediator in litigated cases involving medical legal and health law issues. She is active in many professional organizations, including the Southern California Mediation Association, where she is President Elect, Co-Chair of Programs, and sits on the Attorney Outreach Committee. 

She is a registered nurse in the state of California and has worked as a clinical nurse in Cleveland and Los Angeles. Jennifer is married to a physician and together, they are raising three great children. 

Cost:

SCMA Sustaining Members & Members: No Charge

Non-Members: $35