Training & Events

Event Information:

• Thu

  10

  Oct

  2024

  3-day Commercial Mediation training

  Zoom

  

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  Last week we completed our Part 146 approved, 3-day Commercial Mediation training. This was our fifth online training since the commencement of COVID. It was a delight and honor spending time with our participants and guests. Each of you brought unique insights and experience, generating stimulating dialogue and lively and entertaining exercises and role-plays. I would like to thank a number of people who made this possible.

  Thank you to New York State Bar Association
  We would like to thank the New York State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section and its Chair Jill Pilgrim; and all those on NYSBA's staff, starting with Simone Smith, Continuing Legal Education Program Manager; Kathy Suchocki, Associate Executive Director of NYSBA; Pat Stockli, Director, CLE, Law Practice Management & Sections and Meeting Services; Mercedes Peno, Kate Tortola and the entire NYSBA team. The NYSBA staff worked tirelessly behind the scenes.

  Thank you to Our Facilitators:
  Every year we hear from program participants that the role plays and facilitators' feedback during panel discussions were perhaps their favorite part of this experience, and this year is no exception. We cannot sufficiently thank the highly experienced mediators Thomas (Tom) Rothschild, Krista Gottlieb, Richard Janvey, Tom Wiegand, Alan Sacks, William Bierce, Pamela Esterman, Bart Eagle, Evan Spelfogel who shared their time and insight with us for each of our three major role plays.

  Thank you to the Court, et al.:
  We would like to thank Hon. Adam Silvera, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge, New York City Courts, for delivering our program's kick-off remarks. We are grateful for the longstanding support of Joel Kullas and Bridget O'Connell, Regional ADR Coordinators; and to Albert Levi, ADR Coordinator of the Civil Division for Bronx County for his comprehensive description of ADR activities in the Bronx Supreme Court.

  Special Thanks:
  Special thanks must go to Ia Kurkhuli and Ryder Fleming-Jones of Resolve Mediation Services, Inc., who worked hard to make this happen. We are eternally grateful to our Program Co-Chair Evan Spelfogel, for contributing his insights and experience, and for his willingness to jump into the roleplays as a last-minute fill-in.