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| Name: | Karen Joffe | ||||
| Address: | 902 Rose Avenue | ||||
| Piedmont, CA 94611 | |||||
| Telephone: | (510) 654-9114 | Fax: | (510) 654-0196 | ||
| Email: | karen@joffes.com | ||||
| Fees: | $150 per hour | ||||
| Other Costs: | Meeting space cost is extra; no charge for travel time; will do sliding scale & occassional pro bono. | ||||
| BAR Number: | 0000000 | ||||
| Attorney: | Non-Attorney Professional Mediator/Arbitrator: x Retired Judge/Justice: | ||||
| Mediation Experience: | - real estate land/lord tenant: : co-mediated 29 cases, 1998 - present - civil harassment: co-mediated 15 cases, 1998-present - family disputes: solo and co-mediated 10 cases: 1998-present - organizational disputes: 4 solo & co-facilitated: 1998 - present |
| Mediation Training: | Highlights form from Fall 1997-present: - Harvard Negotiation Project - Basic Negotiation w/ Fisher; Mediation w/ Sander, Singer & Lewis; & Advanced Negotiation w/ Heen, Patton, Stone - 120 hours; - Bill Lincoln, Negotiation & Mediation - 40 hours (did certification exam); - Ron Kelly, Business Mediation - 40 hours; - High conflict communication skills: w/ Tony Roffers - 32 hours total; Stanford cont. ed. & JFK U. - 40 hours; - Public Conversations Project w/ Roth & Stains - 18 hours; - Global Facilitator Service Corps w/Brenson-Lazan, Karpoff, & Quant - 16 hours. |
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| Subject | Personal Injury: | Employment: | x | Business: | x | Real Estate: | ||
| Matter: | Legal Malpractice: | Public Agency: | x | Probate: | Construction: | |||
| Medical Malpractice: | Environmental: | Insurance: | Securities: | |||||
| Product Liability: | Landlord-Tenant / Neighborhood: | x | Dental Malpractice: | |||||
| Foreign Language(s): | x | Intellectual Property/High Technology: | ||||||
| Accoutings: | Conservatorships/Guardianships: | Wills/Trusts: | ||||||
| Other: Consumer, family , mental health. | ||||||||
| Other Education: |
U.C. Berkeley, B.S., Conservation of Natural Resources, 1971 Madeleine Kamman\'s chefs school, 2 yrs. of training & certification, 1974-76 |
| Mediation Approach: |
I am a facilitative mediator. |
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| Other Information: |
I help resolve conflicts involving difficult personalities and issues related to principle and emotion. I am skilled at working with individuals with physical and mental disabilities. I offer an affodable rate, and over 20 years of business experience and many years of cummunity volunteerism. I can mediate as a sole provider or as a co-mediator, when facilitative skills or partnering would enhance the panel. |
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Biography available upon request. |