Mediator
Mediation is an informal and non-adversarial process in which a neutral impartial person, the mediator, facilitates negotiations between the disputing parties. The mediator helps the parties find a mutually acceptable solution to their dispute. A mediator has no power to impose a solution and will not attempt to do so. Rather, the parties, rather than a stranger to the process like a judge or an arbitrator, are empowered to reach their own unique resolution. The mediation approach is different from arbitration or a court solution where the arbitrator(s) or the judge decides the dispute.
As a certified mediator, Ms. Cole brings to the mediation process a perspective honed by years of litigation practice and trial experience gained by representing private clients and governmental entities for over 26 years. Her years of evidentiary and procedural experience is often helpful to the mediation participants, especially if the mediation involves issues related to complex commercial or business litigation; contracts; labor and employment (both private and federal employment issues, representing both employers and employees); securities; construction; partnerships, insurance, antitrust; banking; or, utilities.
The following links may be helpful in better understanding mediation, both domestic and international.
Related Links:
- The Florida Circuit-Civil Mediator Society
- Association for Conflict Resolution
- FINRA Dispute Resolution
- International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) Management
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- American Arbitration Association (AAA)
- United States Council for International Business USCIB
- Mediation List for the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
- Mediators Without Borders (MBB). Ms. Cole is a founding and Board Member of MBB.
- Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Arbitral Judge, Vienna, Austria
- National Arbitration Forum (NAF)