Thursday, December 1st
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun.
Ms. Waugh and Mr. Hicks invite you to support Covenant House & FISH of Clarke County.
Our special guests this week, Brenda Waugh, Lawyer and Mediator & Elliot Hicks, Lawyer, Arbitrator and Mediator, will present on:
The First Five Minutes: Maximizing the Potential for Success in Mediation
Like many important events, we often win, or lose, the most important people to the process during the first five minutes of a mediation session. In this session we discuss how mediators should make intentional decisions about strategy and procedures to to capture the parties' attention and the dedication to ensure a successful mediation. Decisions the mediator makes about whether to convene a pre-mediation meeting, who participates, and whether to include opening statements will shape the mediation.
Elliot G. Hicks has practiced law in Charleston, West Virginia for more than forty years, three years as a sole practitioner or in a small firm, thirty years with several of West Virginia’s most distinguished law firms, and now, again as a sole practitioner.
Elliot attended Washington and Lee University, and then graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1978. He graduated from West Virginia University College of Law with a Juris Doctorate degree and was admitted to practice law in West Virginia in 1981.
Elliot has taken well over one hundred jury trials to verdict in the state circuit courts and the federal district courts. He has tried cases to a jury verdict in the areas of products liability, premises liability, corporate and commercial litigation, insurance defense, and medical malpractice defense. His practice is now focused on dispute resolution through mediation and arbitration practice under the name of Hicks Resolutions.
He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and he was also elected a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. He maintains the highest rating of “AV” ® with Martindale-Hubbell, and he is recognized by inclusion in the publications, Best Lawyers in America®, and Super Lawyers®.
Elliot served as President of the West Virginia State Bar from 1998 1999, the first lawyer of color to hold that position.
Among his several other community activities, Elliot served for seven years on the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, establishing policy for all state-supported colleges and universities, and served as the Chairman of the Concord University Board of Governors.
Brenda Waugh is a lawyer/mediator and restorative justice facilitator with Waugh Law & Mediation in Virginia and West Virginia. Prior to this position, she served as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Berkeley and Kanawha Counties, counsel to the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee, clerk with the West Virginia Supreme Court and a Legal Services Attorney. She has taught courses at the WVU College of Law and at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice and Peace.
She has contributed to a number of different publications including law review articles published by the Washington University Journal of Law and Public Policy and Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Brenda has presented at workshops and conferences throughout the United States and Canada.
She is a proud alum of the University of Virginia (B.A.), West Virginia University (J.D.) and Eastern Mennonite University (M.A.)