What are the critical steps and skills to ensure a successful mediation, and where does it usually go wrong?
Is mediation always the right answer? Are we losing the skills to pick up the phone and negotiate directly with opposing counsel, by an over-reliance on mediation? How do we train the next generation of lawyers to negotiate effectively, in mediation and beyond?
Are there differences in UK and US approaches to mediation, and mediation platforms, from which we can learn?
Join our internationally renowned panellists on Wednesday 19 July for this IFSEA webinar, where they will discuss how different jurisdictions approach the mediation of disputes between key corporate players and executives, including:
The advantages and disadvantages of mediation over direct negotiation
Top tips on mediator selection
Unique mediation solutions that courts and tribunals cannot order
Best practices in preparing and conducting mediation (briefs/position statements exchange, caucus confidentiality, and insurance/contingency fee dynamics)
Speakers:
Lynne Hermle, Partner, Orrick (Silicon Valley)
Yulia Fedorenko, Associate, CM Murray LLP (UK)
Peter Rukin, Partner, Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP (San Francisco) & Mediator, Sequitur Resolutions (Chair)
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Jane Mulcahy KC, Blackstone Chambers (UK)
Jane Mulcahy KC is co-Head of Blackstone Chambers. She is recognised as a leading silk in two key areas: employment and sport. She is head of the employment group in Chambers and her sport work is high profile and varied, including disciplinary and regulatory issues, as well as arbitrations and investigations.
Ian Mill KC, Blackstone Chambers (UK)
Ian Mill KC is a leading silk, who has appeared frequently in substantial, high profile commercial disputes in the Chancery Division, the Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal, offshore in the BVI, Bermuda and Cayman and in international and domestic arbitrations.
Lynne Hermle, Partner, Orrick (Silicon Valley)
Lynne Hermle, an Orrick Silicon Valley partner, is consistently named as one of the best employment defense lawyers in the country. She has special expertise in the trial of high profile matters in state and federal courts, successfully representing major companies such as Microsoft, Twitter, SpaceX and others in complex employment suits.
Ana Cid, Partner, Seyfarth (New York/London)
Ana is a Partner at Seyfarth Shaw’s International Employment Law team based in New York. Spanish qualified, Ana specializes in International Employment legal matters around the world, with special focus in Europe and Latin America countries. Ana has extensive experience working across borders for complex multinational clients managing global multi country projects.
Yulia Fedorenko, Associate, CM Murray LLP (UK)
Yulia Fedorenko is an Associate specialising in partnership and employment law. Yulia advises both employers and senior executives on contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including whistleblowing, discrimination, harassment, settlement agreements and negotiated exits. Yulia has particular experience and interest in whistleblowing in the financial sector.
Peter Rukin, Partner, Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP (San Francisco)
Mediator, Sequitur Resolutions (Chair)
Peter Rukin is a mediator with Sequitur Resolutions, a mediation firm he established in 2022. Peter has been helping parties resolve their disputes through mediation for over 20 years. He is a long-time member of the Northern District of California ADR mediation panel, a graduate of the Harvard Negotiation Institute—Advanced Mediation Workshop, a member of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution, and co-author of the Mediation chapter of the CEB Treatise California Wage and Hour Law and Litigation. Peter is also a founding partner of Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP, where from 2005 to 2022 he represented clients in employment law matters.
Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Time: 5pm - 6pm BST (12pm - 1pm ET / 9am - 10am PT)
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