Archive of Previous Events
The following are all previous events held by the Mediation Society. Please click on the description for details.
Historical Summary of Events
(Founded in 1998)
2006 – 2007
December
14, 2006
James R. Madison
“Significant Mediation Cases in 2006”
October
18, 2006
Breakfast Roundtable
Elizabeth A. Tippin
“Mastering the Technical Issues in Real Property ADR Cases”
__________
2005 - 2006
Eighth
Annual Membership Dinner and Installation of Officers
September 26, 2006
Steven Rosenberg
“mediation as a joke”
June
20, 2006
Breakfast Roundtable
Stephen H. Sulmeyer, J.D., Ph.D.
“The Psychology of Effective Mediation”
May
17, 2006
Dinner
Yolanda M. Jackson
”The Insurance Money Quandary
And The Town Hall Experience”
April
28,2006
Spring Training Workshop
“Expectations, Skills and Success in Mediation”
Panelists: Mary Alexander, Michael Dickstein, Alan Exelrod, Patricia Gillette,
Ike Lasater, Ralph Lombardi, Jessica Notini; Sheila Purcell, Martin Quinn,John
Toker
April 11, 2006
Breakfast Roundtable
Patricia A. Shanahan, MBA
Mediation Project Manager, Lumetra
“Medicare Comes to The Mediation Table”
March
9, 2006
Dinner
Jay Folberg and Lester Levy
“Black Farmers ADR”
February
7, 2006
Breakfast Roundtable
“A Breakfast Roundtable Conversation
With Louis J. Giraudo”
January
17, 2006
Dinner
An Evening with Mayor Willie Brown
“A Study in Contrasts – Deal Making v. Peacemaking”
December
8, 2005
Breakfast Roundtable
James R. Madison
“Significant Mediation Cases In 2005”
__________
2004 - 2005
Seventh Annual Membership Dinner and Installation of Officers
October 6, 2005
The Honorable Jeremy Fogel
“The Vanishing Trial and the Future of Mediation”
June
14, 2005
Breakfast Roundtable
Martin Quinn
“Reinvigorating The Opening Statement”
May
18, 2005
Dinner
Professor and Special Master
Francis McGovern
”Strategic Mediation Updated”
April
12, 2005
Breakfast Roundtable
Daniel Bowling
“Bringing Peace”
March
10, 2005
Breakfast Roundtable
Elaine Leitner and David J. Meadows
“Recent Developments in Ethics
Requirements for Mediators”
February
4, 2005
A Mediation Society Special Event
Kenneth R. Feinberg
Special Master for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund
January
25, 2005
Dinner
Starr Babcock
“Mandatory Active Bar Membership for Full-Time
Neutrals Who Are California Attorneys?????”
December
14, 2004
Breakfast Roundtable
James R. Madison
“Significant Mediation Cases In 2004”
October 19, 2004
Breakfast Roundtable
Marvin Schwartz
“Turning Up The Mediator’s Validation skills
How to Harness This Powerful Intervention to Generate Movement in Mediation”
__________
2003 - 2004
September
14, 2004
Sixth Annual Membership Dinner and Installation of Officers
Thomas J. Stipanowich
“The Vanishing Trial and the Ascendancy of Mediation”
Randall W. Wulff, Outstanding Achievement in Field of Mediation
June
9, 2004
Paul Dubow and Maury Zilber
“Regulations of Mediators?”
May
19, 2004
Hon. Dan Weinstein (Ret.) and Richard Chernick, Esq.
“Med/Arb, Arb/Med and Variants Thereof…
How to Use ADR Combinations Effectively and Avoid Pitfalls”
April
24, 2004
Spring Training Workshop
“Attorneys in Mediation: For Better or Worse”
Panelists 1: Mary Alexander, Steve Goldstein, Randolph Hall and Marjorie
Heinrich
Panelists 2: Gary Friedman, Kenneth Hawkins, Debra Mellinkoff and Martin
Quinn
April
6, 2004
Michal Longfelder, J.D.
“Are You Interested in Creating Your Most Powerful
Marketing Message? Then You Won’t Want to Miss
**Telling Your Story”: The Key to Building A
Successful Career in Conflict Resolution**”
March
18, 2004
John M. Seitman, Esq.
“Does ADR Specialization Work?”
February
18, 2004
Howard Herman
“Negotiation Styles and What They Mean for You as a Mediator”
January
14, 2004
An Evening with Frederick White
“Visions of Peace: Remembering the Message of Dr. King”
December
9, 2003
James R. Madison
“Year-End Summary of the Major Mediation Cases”
November 13, 2003
Richard C. Reuben
“Lessons I Learned During the UMA Drafting and Implications for
California Lawyers”
October
14, 2003
Mimi Lyster
“Sequential and Hybrid ADR Processes”
__________
2002– 2003
September
17, 2003
Fifth Annual Membership Dinner and Installation of Officers
Jeff Kichaven and Michael Carbone
“A Discussion on Rojas v. Los Angeles Superior Court”
James Madison, Outstanding Achievement in Field of Mediation
June
10, 2003
Robin W. Siefkin
“When the Participants’ Experience in Mediation is Less Than
Positive”
May
10, 2003
Spring Training Workshop
Burton V. Jones
“Diversity in Mediation”
April
10, 2003
Richard J. Collier, Esq.
“Preparing for Mediation”
March
18, 2003
“An Evening with Pat Brown”
February
11, 2003
James R. Madison and Kenneth M. Miller
“Mediating Construction Cases
January
15, 2003
“An Evening with Bruce A. Edwards”
December
10, 2002
James Laflin
“Mediating Tort and Bad Faith Cases Across Time Zones”
November
13, 2002
Justice Ignazio J. Ruvolo and John A. Toker
“Appellate Mediation: Selected Issues, Inside and Out”
October
8, 2002
John S. Blackman and Paul Dubow
“Coping with the New Rules for Court Connected Mediations
__________
2001- 2002
September
18, 2002
Fourth Annual Membership Dinner
Rebecca Westerfield
“Mediating from Four Corners”
Nancy Yeend, Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Mediation
June
11, 2002
Harris Weinberg
“Who Ate Nails for Breakfast- Dealing with the Difficult Lawyer”
May
15, 2002
Catherine A. Yanni
“Mediating the Multiparty Case”
May
4, 2002
Spring Training Workshop
Forrest S. Mosten
“Building a Profitable Mediation Practice”
April
10, 2002
Michael P. Carbone
“True Confessions or Mistakes of the Mediator”
March
6, 2002
Judge Robert B. Freedman
“Mediator Ethics- Proposed Standards of Conduct for Mediators in
Court Connected Mediation Programs”
January
30, 2002, Third Annual Membership Dinner
Jay Folberg
“Shared Stories, Experience and Aspirations”
Jerry Spolter, Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Mediation
December
11, 2001
Teresa Carey and Paul Faberman
“The Written Word in Mediation - Confidentiality, Fee, and Settlement
Agreements”
November
14, 2001
Randall Wulff and Yarko Sochynsky
“Mediation - A Personality Altering Profession”
November
3, 2001
Advanced Mediator Workshop
Elizabeth Allen and Donald Mohr, Coast to Coast Mediation Center
“Mediation Advocacy Workshop for Advocates and Mediators.”
October
9, 2001
James R. Madison and Ron Kelly
“The Fine Print in Foxgate”
__________
2000- 2001
July
12, 2001
William A. Quinby
"Marketing a Mediation Practice"
May
16, 2001
Honorable Eugene F. Lynch (Ret.)
"Memorable Moments in Mediation"
April
11, 2001
Michael McCabe
"Learning from One Another in Mediating Insured-Party Cases"
March
7, 2001
Professor and Author, Michael D. Lang
“Developing Excellence in Practice: The Path to Artistry”
February
14, 2001
Juan Martin Jayo, Corporate Environmental Counsel for PG&E
"Be My Mediator - What the Corporate Client is Looking for in a Mediator”
January
24, 2001
William A. Quinby
“Marketing a Mediation Practice”
January
17, 2001
Honorable William Cahill (Ret.)
"Passionate Mediation: The Essential Ingredient"
December
13, 2000
Jim Madison and Frank Spalding
"The Big Debate...Mediation Confidentiality... Absolute or Qualified?"
November
15, 2000
James Melamed of mediate.com
“Integrating the Internet into Your Mediation Practice.”
October
11, 2000
Dana Curtis
“More Than Money- the Effective Use of Apology and Forgiveness in
Mediation”
__________
1999 - 2000
September
13, 2000, Second Annual Membership Dinner
James F. Henry, President of the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution
“CPR’s Mission: To Bring ADR into Mainstream Corporate Law
Departments and Major Law Firms”
Profession Jay Folberg, Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field
of Mediation
June 14, 2000
John Gromala
“Mediation –An Expanded Vision”
June
3, 2000, Advanced Mediator Workshop
Nancy Yeend
“Dealing with Impasse.”
May
10, 2000
Honorable Wayne D. Brazil
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court
Northern District of California
“ADR in the Federal Courts: Status, Directions and Issues on the
Road Ahead”
April
11, 2000
Dr. Scott McCreary, Concilium
“Environmental Mediation: A Decade of Experience”
March
15, 2000
Professor and Special Master Francis E. McGovern
“Strategic Mediation”
February
9, 200
Ron Kelly
“Toss Out the Current Laws Protecting Mediation
January
12, 2000
Steve Tobin, Program Officer for the Hewlett Foundation
“ Reflections on the Field of Mediation”
December
8, 1999
Nancy Yeend
“Mediators, Are They Trained, Trainable, and Qualified”
November
10, 1999
Sheila Purcell, ADR Director for the Multi-Option ADR Project of the San
Mateo County Courts
“Are You Competing With Yourself? Court Programs that Pay”
October
26, 1999
Harris Weinberg
“Ethics in Mediating”
__________
1998-1999
September
15, 1999, First Annual Membership Dinner
Gary Friedman, Center for Mediation in Law
“Differences Among Mediators”
August
31, 1999
Jay Folberg and Brian McDonald
“Dealing with the Emotional Content of Disputes”
July 21, 1999
Byron Bland, Associate Director of Stanford School on Conflict and Negotiation
“Conflict and Negotiation in North Ireland”
June
16, 1999
Tony Piazza
“ The Piazza Mediation Method”
May
12, 1999
Gordon Gibler, FBI; Mark Hamlin, San Mateo Sheriff’s Office;
Chris Lefertz, former San Francisco Police Department Hostage Negotiator
“Negotiation in a Hostage Crisis Situation”
April
27, 1999
Steven Rosenberg
“Mediation Styles: Facilitative, Evaluative and Transformative”
March
10, 1999
Hon. Daniel Weinstein (Ret,
“Mediating in the Balkans”
February
23, 1999
Bruce Wald
“What an Advocate in Looking for in a Mediator”
December
15, 1998
Lani Bader, Frank Spalding, and James Gault
“Whose Case is It? The Client as Captive”
November
17, 1998
Hon. Gene McDonald (Ret.)
“Mediating without a Black Robe”
October
28, 1998
Lani Bader, Frank Spalding, and James Gault
“Is It Really Mediation? Style and Its Impact on Process”
September
23, 1998, Inaugural Dinner
Hon. Charles B. Renfrew
“ADR Here and Abroad in the 21st Century”