Employment Law Mediation: From the Minds of Mediators

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Format: Webinar

• Description
• Faculty
• Agenda
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• An experienced panel of employment law mediators will guide practitioners through best practices for employment law mediations, from 1) mediation preparation: mediator selection issues, drafting effective mediation statements and preparing clients and attorneys for mediation; and then through 2) issues arising at the mediation itself: avoiding impasse, mediator’s proposals, inability to pay issues, Rule 68 vs. Cheeks, and more.

  Program Fee:
  $199 Member | $299 Nonmember
  In-House Counsel: Free for Members | $149 Nonmember Small Law Firm: $119 Member

• Rebecca Price
  Director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program
  U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

• 9:30 am – 9:35 am
  Introduction of Topic, Panelists & Program Overview

  9:35 am – 10:35 am
  Preparing for the Mediation
  · Mediator Selection Issues · Drafting An Effective Mediation Statement · Preparing Your Client for The Mediation · Preparing Yourself for the Mediation

  10:35 am – 10:50 am
  Break

  10:50 am – 11:30 am
  Issues Arising at Mediation
  · Dealing With Unruly Clients/Adversaries
  · How to navigate inability to Pay issues
  · Working with current employees
  · Helping the mediator help you and your client
  · Raising Cheeks v. Rule 68 (for FLSA cases)
  · Avoiding Impasse
  · Mediator’s Proposals

• New York: 2.0 Skills
  New Jersey: 2.1 General MCLE
  California:2.0 Skills
  Pennsylvania: 1.5 General MCLE

• Sponsoring Association Committee:
  Labor & Employment Law, Tracey Salmon-Smith, Chair

  Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
  Yelena Balashchenko, Manager, Business Development & Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | ybalashchenko@nycbar.org