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The Southern California Mediation Association’s attorney outreach committee presents a FREE webinar on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, from 6:00 -7:30 p.m. PST, as we discuss the ability, and often the necessity, of mediators to take mediations beyond the traditional format to facilitate settlements. The panel will discuss how mediators must be creative and how they can, and when they should, pivot during the mediation process to overcome obstacles to reaching resolutions. The panel will also explain how attorneys can best prepare themselves and their clients for mediations that take such a turn, and how attorneys can do their own pivoting to best benefit their clients during the mediation process. 

The panel features two outstanding mediators, Daniel Ben-Zvi, Esq. of ADR Services, and Lee Jay Berman of the Mediation Offices of Lee Jay Berman. Craig C. Lang, Esq., co-chair of the SCMA Attorney Outreach Committee and Board Secretary of SCMA, will moderate.

This program is available to any mediators and attorneys, including non-members of SCMA).  Supporting reading materials will be distributed before the program to all who register.

Daniel Ben-Zvi, Esq.

Daniel Ben-Zvi, Mediator with ADR Services, has mediated over 3,000 disputes with highly successful results.  He’s a “Distinguished Fellow” [International Academy of Mediators] and “Power Mediator” [Hollywood Reporter]. He’s also co-author of the book, “Inside the Minds – Alternative Dispute Resolution”. His creativity has led him to also be a writer on the television show “L.A. Law”.

Mr. Ben-Zvi’s guiding principle as Mediator: “The mediation opportunity should be effectively exhausted, with no stone left unturned.”

Lee Jay Berman

Lee Jay Berman is an American Arbitration Association Master Mediator for employment matters, a national panelist on their commercial and construction panels, and a select mediator on their International Center for Dispute Resolution mediation panel.  He is a Distinguished Fellow with the International Academy of Mediators, a Charter Diplomat with NADN, and certified by the International Mediation Institute (one of the first 5 mediators in the U.S.).

Also a popular trainer, Mr. Berman founded the American Institute of Mediation after seven years as Director of Pepperdine Law School's "Mediating the Litigated Case" program (ranked #1 nationally). He has trained mediators, judges, attorneys, and business leaders across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe, as well as in Croatia, Dubai, Jordan, India, Uzbekistan, Australia, and New Zealand, and has consulted with court systems across the U.S., and in India.

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