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Moshe Cohen Moshe is a trainer and mediator based in Cambridge, MA. Since 1995, he has conducted hundreds of negotiation skills workshops for corporations, law firms, financial services companies, consulting firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations of all sizes. Moshe also teaches Negotiation and Leadership courses in the MBA program at Boston University and previously taught at Bentley College and Cambridge College. Moshe has published numerous articles on negotiation, mediation, conflict management, and leadership, and is a frequent guest speaker at business functions, conferences, and universities. As a mediator, Moshe specializes in business, employment, workplace and discrimination disputes and serves on a number of mediation panels locally and nationally. He has also served as a judge in the American Bar Association's negotiation competition held at Boston University Law School. Moshe received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cornell, a Master in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and a Master in Business Administration from the Boston University Graduate School of Management. Moshe's career includes over twelve years of engineering and project management experience prior to entering the negotiation and dispute resolution field. Melinda S. Gehris Melinda has served as a neutral since 1994. She mediates, arbitrates, facilitates and provides neutral evaluation services. Melinda mediates privately and in the New Hampshire Probate and Superior Courts and the Massachusetts courts. Melinda has facilitated the resolution of many types of disputes involving family and divorce, probate, trusts and estates, real estate, land-lord tenant, personal injury, collections, employment, contract interpretation and disputes between business owners. She is an experienced trainer, developing and leading programs in dispute resolution on topics including basic mediation skills, advanced and specialized dispute resolution training, negotiation and advocacy. She has also written and published numerous articles on dispute resolution topics. Melinda also practices law in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. She was named to Woodward and White’s Best Lawyers in America 2007 in dispute resolution and has also been named one of the Top 100 lawyers in New Hampshire. Melinda has been appointed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court Committee on Dispute Resolution. She served as past-president and treasurer of the Association for Conflict Resolution-New England Chapter, is a member of the New Hampshire Conflict Resolution Association and the Association for Conflict Resolution. She is Co-Chair of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s ADR Section and Vice-Chair of that Association’s Dispute Resolution Committee. Melinda received a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and also earned a Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the University of Massachusetts. She is on the faculty of Woodbury College in Vermont, where she teaches in the Mediation and Applied Conflict Studies Program. Ericka B. Gray Ericka has been a full-time management and dispute resolution professional since 1987 and has been providing conflict management, mediation, training and consulting services since 1985. She consults to a number of corporations, government and non-profit organizations to provide strategic planning, management consulting, conflict intervention, training, and dispute resolution systems design services relating to change initiatives, communication, interpersonal, and workplace issues. In addition to employment and workplace issues, including discrimination, sexual harassment, ADA, ADEA, and other claims, Ericka is experienced in mediating disputes involving business, including contract, dissolution, securities and financial; health care, including mental health; divorce and family business, trust and estate issues; personal injury; professional liability; insurance coverage; and many other types of claims. The founding director of the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse, and formerly senior mediator, director of professional services, and regional training coordinator with JAMS’ Boston office, Ericka has extensive experience training and supervising other neutrals. She served as a member of the Massachusetts Trial Court’s Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution from 2005 to 2007, on the Board of Directors and as an officer for the Association for Conflict Resolution, New England Chapter, and serves on the Leadership Council of the international Association for Conflict Resolution’s Workplace Section, in which she has attained the highest level of membership, Advanced Practitioner. A psychologist, she teaches mediation at Boston College Law School, Suffolk University Law School (Boston, MA), and Northwestern University (Chicago, IL). She is a mediator for the U.S. EEOC, U.S. Department of Justice’s American with Disabilities Act, and the United Parcel Service’s mediation programs, among many others. In 2006 and 2007, she worked under contract with the USAID to provide basic and advanced mediation training to Bulgarian mediators and Croatian Judges in Boston and Croatia. Diane J. Levin A mediator since 1995, Diane has conducted mediations in disputes in litigation or for private clients in tort, workplace, real estate, business, probate, and family matters, and serves on numerous mediation panels, including the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Before becoming a mediator, Diane practiced labor, employment, municipal, tort, and probate law. An experienced trainer of mediation, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills, Diane has taught thousands of people in corporate, institutional, governmental, and non-profit settings, from Fortune 500 executives to Croatian judges. She also serves as a negotiation and conflict resolution coach to entrepreneurs and consults on digital technology matters to professionals throughout the world. She has been an advisor to Meta-Culture, Bangalore's premiere dialogue and dispute resolution center. Diane writes the ADR column "The Human Factor" for The Complete Lawyer, an online magazine addressing professional satisfaction and work-life issues for attorneys, and publishes the award-winning blog MediationChannel.com which attracts thousands of readers world-wide and provides news and commentary on ADR, negotiation, and law. She is also the founder and webmaster of the World Directory of Alternative Dispute Resolution Blogs, which tracks citizen media relating to conflict management. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a B.A. in Russian Language, and earned her J.D. cum laude from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
William DeVane Logue Bill has been a mediator, facilitator, consensus builder, trainer and consultant to individuals, groups, associations, corporations, law firms, foundations and public organizations since 1986. He mediates employment, workplace, commercial, construction, environmental, and many other matters. Bill has engaged in public policy consensus building work in Massachusetts and Connecticut and has assisted in the creation of a statewide collaborative governance model in Maine. Bill also consults to foundations, nonprofits and public sector organizations on conflict resolution, collaboration, strategic and programming planning, and feasibility analysis and program evaluation. He has designed and lead conflict resolution training programs for numerous organizations in the public and private sector. Bill contributed three chapters to the Mediation Practice Book published in 2001 and is a regular contributing columnist on dispute resolution to the Connecticut Law Tribune. Past chair of the Connecticut Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section and Co-Chair of the Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution in the Courts, Bill is also a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), past President of the New England Chapter of ACR, and a member of the Environment and Public Policy Section and the Workplace Section of ACR. He is lead faculty for 40-hour mediation training program sponsored by the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University School of Law Center on Dispute Resolution. Bill teaches negotiation and mediation advocacy at Quinnipiac Law School. He is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Connecticut School of Law and is admitted to practice in Connecticut and Massachusetts. For four years he served as career law clerk for ADR matters to Senior U.S. District Judge Robert C. Zampano. |
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