The State of the Mediation Movement
An Open Panel Discussion
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If you missed the live event on March 25th, here's
your chance to view the full webinar.
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Panelists
- Tracy Lemmon, Moderator
- Fred D. Butler, ADR Services, Inc.
- Jay Folberg, JAMS
- Mark LeHocky, ADR Services, Inc.
- Ken Strongman, The Mediation Society
- Kyungah "Kay" Suk, Ninth Circuit Panel Mediator
- Lauren E. Tate, Judicate West
- Darlene Weide, Executive Director, Community Boards
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Tracy C. Lemmon, Esq., Moderator
Tracy C. Lemmon practices resolution-oriented advocacy in employment law through her firm, Lemmon Employment Law & Conflict Resolution. Ms. Lemmon has been a community and professional mediator for over twenty years. She mediates employment, business, family and community cases while also representing employees and small business employers in employment disputes. Ms. Lemmon is a past Board President of Community Boards. She currently serves as the President of Community Boards' Advisory Council and is a member of The Mediation Society.
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Fred D. Butler, Esq.
Fred D. Butler is a full-time arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes, including but not limited to personal injury, insurance, employment matters such as labor disputes, termination, race, sex, disability discrimination and family medical leave issues; civil rights disputes and culturally sensitive matters. Mr. Butler also serves as a neutral in residential real estate disputes, including homeowners’ associations, landlord-tenant matters and construction and development issues. He is also available for neutral fact finding and investigations.
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Jay Folberg, Esq.
Mediator & Arbitrator, JAMS
Jay Folberg, Esq., former Dean at the University of San Francisco School of Law, has resolved complex disputes on a wide variety of subjects. Considered one of the founders of ADR practice with decades of experience as a mediator and arbitrator, he is particularly skilled at getting to the heart of multifaceted issues and dealing with the human factors that create obstacles to settlement. Jay Folberg also conducts cases virtually.
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Mark LeHocky, Esq.
For over 30 years, Mark LeHocky has mediated, managed and resolved hundreds of cases nationwide ranging from intellectual property, antitrust and other business disputes to real estate, class and individual consumer and employment cases, as well as individual and mass torts. For this work, Mark has been nationally recognized among the Best Lawyers in America for Mediation for successive years. Along with his mediation work, Mark serves as an arbitrator and appointed special master for select matters.
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Ken Strongman, Esq.
As a full-time, Mediator and Arbitrator since 2004, Ken’s overarching purpose is to leave the disputing parties in a better position than when they came to him. Ken works to unite people into purposeful and unified directions, actions, and efforts by getting under surface appearances. By doing so, he facilitates the parties in developing their unique solutions. Disputes addressed include business, securities, construction defects, real estate, intellectual property, employment, environment, energy, and trusts & estates.
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Kyungah "Kay" Suk, Esq.
Kyungah “Kay” Suk is a Circuit Mediator for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, who mediates federal appellate matters throughout the 11 states and territories in the Ninth Circuit. She has mediated hundreds of matters in the areas of commercial, insurance, employment, tort, education, civil rights, class action, environmental and public policy. Prior to focusing full-time on mediation, Kay was a Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice as a civil litigator and an Administrative Law Judge with the California Office of Administrative Hearings.
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Lauren E. Tate, Esq.
After 33 years as a successful trial attorney and firm owner specializing in medical malpractice, premises liability and wrongful death, Lauren Tate realized her passion for mediation and began to make her transition in 2012. While her litigation practice focused on personal injury matters, she has successfully mediated a wide variety of matters including business and real estate disputes. Lauren is particularly skilled at maintaining control of negotiations and reaching settlements in emotionally charged cases. She brings to each case her strong emotional intelligence coupled with extensive experience working with professionals in complex medical cases and remains committed to resolution throughout the process.
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Darlene Weide, MPH, MSW
Darlene Weide, MPH, MSW, is the Executive Director of Community Boards. Since 2007, she has been overseeing all aspects of Community Boards, with an emphasis on equity and inclusion with initiatives such as Taking Mediation to the People Project, the curriculum for addressing LGBTQ discrimination in schools, the Rising Up homeless youth project, the BayView collaboration, and the San Francisco Peacemaker Awards. She is also an organizational ombuds, specializing in healthcare and higher education settings. She is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University and at City College of San Francisco. She is the author of Conflict Resolution Skills in the book Foundations for Community Health Workers, and the former Executive Director of the STOP AIDS Project.
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