[blindlaw] Animals and Mediation: Training on 1 Nov. Focusing Heavily on Service Animals

[Norman, Gary C. (CMS/OSORA)]

Greetings:


This is to inform of the forthcoming seminar, which will be co-instructed in Howard County on 1 November. My co-instructor, not to mention friend, and I would appreciate you sharing this notice with your networks. Due to the limits of list services, this is informally pasted below. If attendance numbers are not such by 25 October, the seminar will be scheduled to spring, 2014.


Sincerely,
Gary C. Norman, Esq. L.L.M.


Save the Date

The Mid-Atlantic Lyceum and the Mediation Center present -
Advance Mediation of Animal Disputes

November 1, 2013

8:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Sharply
Location to be determined prior to the date.
Contact for registration information:
The Mediation Center
Attn: Kim
3701 Courthouse Drive
Ellicott City, Maryland 21043
410-750-6710

Registration fees:

Ø  $250 "early bird" (On or before October 15, 2013)

Ø  $300   Standard fee (After October 15th, but before October 28th)

Ø  $325 late (after October 28th, 2013)

This interactive training, the first such seminar in Maryland to explore animal disputes and mediation, is an advantageous opportunity to obtain continuing education credits all the while advancing the field of animal law. Conflicts, between people concerning animals (inclusive of service animal and custody related concerns) will always be with us. How society responds and resolves these conflicts is changing; this makes the time to obtain advance training in mediating such conflicts a priority.

Trainers
Gary C. Norman, Esq. L.L.M.

Mr. Norman is a mediator, arbitrator, and public policy facilitator, who has completed 150 or more hours of training in Alternative Dispute Resolution, including, arbitration and mediation. He is Of Counsel at the Maryland Animal Law Center, and is the Co-founder of the Mid-Atlantic Lyceum. He is a past Fellow at the American Arbitration Association. Notably, his fall column in the Virginia-Maryland Dog Magazine covered applying dispute resolution tools, such as mediation, to animal disputes.



Cecilia Paizs, Esq. Principal of the Mediation Center

Ms. Paizs is licensed in Maryland, being noted widely as a talented and thoughtful mediation trainer, family law practitioner, and mediator. She is the Vice Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Maryland State Bar Association. She obtained her J.D. at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. Her notable skills in negotiation and dispute resolution do stem, at least in part, from her rich life experience of having lived abroad and having practiced law in many different states.