This book provides lawyers with advice about selecting a mediator, preparing clients for mediation, and coaching the clients through the negotiation process to a settlement. It offers wise perspectives, examples from cases, and bullet-point practice tips.
Mosten, Forrest S.: -
Forrest (Woody) Mosten has been in private mediation practice in Los Angeles since 1979 and teaches mediation as Adjunct Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He trains professionals in mediation from basic to advanced courses and is in constant demand worldwide as a conference keynote speaker and expert witness on mediation.
Mr. Mosten serves as a mediator in the following practice areas: Business and Partnerships, Real Estate, Commercial Litigation, Family Law, and other disputes involving complex legal and financial issues and high conflict of the parties.
Mr. Mosten is the author of four books and numerous articles on mediation and other dispute resolution topics.
Mr. Mosten was a 2009 ABA Frank Sander Co-Lecturer and has been recipient of the ABA Lawyer as Problem Solver Award, ABA Lifetime Legal Access Award, Los Angeles County Bar Louis M. Brown Conflict Prevention Award, and was named by the Southern California Mediation Association as Peacemaker of the Year. He is the founding Chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Dispute Resolution Section and has received two major awards for his work in mediation from that organization.
Mr. Mosten can be reached at mostenmediation.com
Scully, Elizabeth Potter: - Hon. Elizabeth Scully sits in a family law assignment on the Los Angeles Superior Court. She received her AB in Classics (Latin) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1993 and her JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1996. Prior to taking the bench in December 2020, she was a certified Family Law Specialist (California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization) in private practice and a founding partner of Jacobson Scully LLP, providing mediation, collaborative and minor's counsel services, in addition to traditional litigation representation. As an attorney, she was also vice president of the Board of Directors of Levitt Quinn, a nonprofit law firm serving the working poor, and a member of A Better Divorce, a collaborative practice group in Los Angeles's South Bay. She has taught experiential courses in mediation and in negotiation theory and practice at UCLA School of Law and has co-authored numerous books and articles (with Woody and others) on topics relating to consensual dispute resolution in the family law context. She was co-recipient of the Association of Family and Conciliation Court's 2016
Traum, Lara Traum: - Lara Traum is a partner at Roytberg Traum Law and Mediation, P.C. She practices matrimonial and family law in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and practices as a family and matrimonial mediator throughout the United States and internationally, in English and in Russian. Lara received her BA from NYU in music, literature, and Judaic studies in 2010 and her JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2016, where she graduated cum laude with a concentration in family and matrimonial law and a Jacob Burns Medal for Scholastic Achievement after serving as editor in chief of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. Lara serves on the Board of Directors of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation and is an active member of Long Island Collaborative Divorce Professionals. Outside her practice, Lara lectures on matrimonial and conflict resolution matters, publishes academic works on mediation and family law, and performs as a musician in various venues throughout New York City. Lara has been a co-trainer with Woody and co-author for numerous articles.
