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16-Hour Advanced Commercial Mediation Training

16-Hour Advanced Commercial Mediation Training
Friday, October 31 & Monday, November 3, 2025, | 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
NY CLE Credit: 16 Total: 12.0 skills, 1.5 ethics, 1.0 Professional Practice

Format: In-Person

Program Fee:
$799 Member | $999 Nonmember 

Registration is limited and is on a first come first served basis. Court staff please call 212 382 6663 to register.

Description:
If you have taken an initial mediation training and want to specialize in commercial cases, don’t miss this invaluable course. Using a combination of lectures, interactive exercises and role-plays, you will learn additional skills that contribute to successful commercial mediations. Topics will include: working with attorneys; caucus and risk assessment; impasse breaking and evaluative techniques; and ethical issues. This course does not guarantee your acceptance onto any court panel.

Attendance at all days of the program is required.

For New York Attorneys: Effective through December 31, 2025 newly admitted attorneys (those admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less) may earn skills credits in a traditional live classroom setting or through individual participation (self-study) or group participation, utilizing the following live, nontraditional formats where questions are allowed during the program (web conference, teleconference, video conference). After December 31, 2025, newly admitted attorneys must complete skills CLE credits in either the traditional live classroom setting or by fully interactive video conference group participation only (where participants are physically together in a group setting).  

For New York Attorneys: This program is a transitional/non-transitional course.

Lead Trainer:
Rebecca Price, Director, ADR Program, US District Court, SDNY

Guest Trainer:
Rachel Gupta, JAMS

Sponsoring Association Committee:
Alternative Dispute Resolution | Susan E. Salazar, Chair

Lead Trainer Bio:

Rebecca Price is the Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to this position she directed the Mediation Clinic at Brooklyn Law School, was a Supervising Attorney in the Mediation Clinic at CUNY School of Law, and taught ADR at the New York University School of Continuing Professional Studies. Rebecca has also taught lawyering/legal writing, and interviewing and counseling, at Cardozo Law School, and was supervising attorney in the Economic Justice Program at CUNY School of Law. Rebecca is the former Coordinator of the Special Education/Early Intervention and ACCES VR Mediation Programs for Safe Horizon Mediation Program (now the New York Peace Institute). Before turning her focus to ADR, Rebecca was the Assistant Director of Visual AIDS, created and oversaw the Children’s Mental Health Project at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and was a Senior Attorney in the Special Litigation and Appeals Unit of the Mental Hygiene Legal Service. Rebecca is certified as an Initial Mediation Trainer for the Community Dispute Resolution Centers Program of the Unified Court System of the State of New York. Rebecca currently teaches an ADR Survey at New York University School of Law and is a frequent speaker and trainer about mediation, conflict resolution, and communication. In the Spring of 2023, she was appointed Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, overseeing the mediation clinical programs for that semester. Rebecca was named a 2017 honoree for Distinguished Leadership as part of the New York Law Journal’s Professional Excellence Awards, Frontline Champion by the Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York for Mediation Settlement Day 2019, and the recipient of the Charles Newman award from the New York State Bar Association in 2025. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and her dog.

This course is approved under Part 146 by the New York State Unified Court System's Office of ADR Programs and satisfies the Part 146 additional mediation training requirements with at least 16 hours of training in commercial mediation. Final placement on any court roster is at the discretion of the local Administrative Judge; Participation in a course does not guarantee placement on a local court roster; Some courts may require additional training and experience beyond Part 146’s requirements; Acceptance on court rosters may depend on a court’s need for mediators at any given time and may include a particular court’s need for mediators with specific case-type training or experience.

This program will not be taped. You will have only one chance to participate – Live!


Where
42 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036

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