The “Ethical Mediator” Fact or Fiction

Friday, January 27, 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Pacific via ZOOM

This program is FREE for BHBA Members and $35 for Non Members. Reminder: BHBA members get access to all live webinars for free. Join at www.bhba.org/join

Earn 2.0 CA CLE Hours of Legal Ethics.

Meet the Speakers

Mary B. Culbert

Former Director

Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution

A. Marco Turk

Professor Emeritus

California State University -Dominguez Hills

Malcolm S. McNeil

BHBA President

Partner & International Practice Co-Leader

ArentFox Schiff LLP

(Moderator)

About this Program

Is it reasonable for parties and lawyers to expect that that their chosen mediators will, among other things: (1) disclose all potential conflicts of interest before accepting an assignment, (2) maintain party confidences obtained from one caucus to the next, and (3) follow generally accepted ethical mediation principles (And what are those principles?). To what end if your mediator fails to do this?  

Malcolm S. McNeil (President - Beverly Hills Bar Association & Partner and International Practice Co-Leader at ArentFox Schiff) will lead a discussion with Mary B Culbert (former Clinical Professor and Director of the Loyola Center for Conflict Resolution) and A. Marco Turk (Professor Emeritus, and former Director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding graduate/undergraduate programs at California State University-Dominguez Hills) to discuss these and other related questions, while presenting their ideas for a new streamlined Ethical Code of Conduct for Mediators. 

These ideas are further described in Professor Culbert's forthcoming article entitled "Proposal: A New Unified Canon of Mediator Ethics" to be published by the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution (Moritz College of Law) in 2023.

This program is presented by the Mediation section. The Mediation section is chaired by Adam Porter. Find out more about the section at www.bhba.org.

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