Monday, October 31, 2022 | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Thursday, November 3, 2022 | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Friday, November 4, 2022 | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Monday, November 7, 2022 | 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
NY
CLE Credit: 26.0 Total: 22.5 Skills, 1.5 Ethics, 1.0 Professional Practice & 1.0 Diversity & Inclusion
Webinar: $1,295 City Bar
Members & Court Staff | $1,495 Nonmembers
This 30 Hour Online Initial Mediation
Training is designed to provide a firm foundation in the mediation of court
disputes, with a blend of theory and practice. The training will introduce
skills and approaches designed to assist in the mediation of court-annexed
cases. Specific topics to be covered include: mediation norms in
court-annexed cases, pre-mediation process, active listening, use of caucus,
effective inquiry, and working through barriers to an agreement. The
training will also address issues of ethics, identity, and culture in
mediation. A certificate of completion will be issued at the conclusion of the
program.
This
30-hour training is approved for the 24-hour training under the Part 146 of the
Rules of the Chief Administrative Judge. Final placement on any court roster is
at the discretion of the local Administrative Judge and participation in a
course that is either approved or pending approval does not guarantee placement
on a local court roster.
Attendance at all days six days of the
program is required.
Registration is limited; advanced
registration is strongly advised.
Click Here to View Program Agenda & Faculty
Lead
Trainer:
Rebecca
Price,
Director, ADR Program, US District Court, SDNY
Sponsoring
Association Committee:
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Philip Goldstein, 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. Rebecca was
named as one of the 2017 honorees for Distinguished Leadership as part of the
New York Law Journal’s Professional Excellence Awards, and Frontline Champion
by the Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York for Mediation
Settlement Day 2019. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and her dogs.