Exploring alternative dispute resolution options for Lawyers

1. Lawyers Becoming Mediators:
Why The Fit Is So Good

2. A Little About Me
• Nationally Accredited Legal
Mediator.
• 20 years of experience with dispute
resolution.
• ‘Light bulb’ moment in 2011, retired
from Barnes Brinsley Shaw
partnership in 2012, and set up
SHAW Mediation Australia in 2013.

3. Understanding Mediation
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=FVuWabbl3Kw

4. Model Of Mediation
Opening
Parties’
opening comments
Reflection & summary
Issue exploration
Private sessions
Negotiation
(Private sessions)
Agreement
and closure
Agenda setting-
identifying the issues
Pre-mediation:
the preliminary
conference
Post-mediation:
parties’
implementation
of the agreement
Problem
Solving
Resolution
Understanding
and
exploration
Future
Past
Source: https://www.leadriama.org/dispute-resolution/about-mediation

5. Interactive Workshop

6. Keeping It Simple
• 5 questions, available on your table
• 2 minutes to brainstorm each question with your group
• Followed by room discussion of the responses, facilitated by me

7. Question 1
What are the personal attributes that make a good mediator?
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8. Question 2
What are the personal attributes that lawyers have that are different or
additional to the attributes of a good mediator?
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9. Question 3
What can lawyers add to the
process of mediation?
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Opening
Parties’
opening comments
Reflection & summary
Issue exploration
Private sessions
Negotiation
(Private sessions)
Agreement
and closure
Agenda setting-
identifying the issues

10. Question 4
Why would some lawyers not make good mediators?
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11. Question 5
What are the benefits to the client of having a legal mediator?
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12. Why Legal Mediators Are The Way
Forward For Dispute Resolution
• Legal Mediators understand the various forms of dispute resolution,
including litigation.
• Legal Mediators use their transferable skills such as questioning,
listening and negotiation to get to the core issues.
• Legal Mediators are knowledgeable and can tackle any subject
matter.
• Legal Mediators have emotional intelligence and empathy.
• Legal Mediators are truly independent, and are distanced from the
management of the business and the dispute.

13. Thank You - Questions?