Supreme Court Certified Mediator in the following areas:
Dependency Mediation Certification Training
David is a primary trainer for Dependency Mediation Certification in Florida. He conducts a Training retreat annually at his home where the chairs are comfortable and you can enjoy his wife, Marty's delicious snacks and hot lunches. The presentations are on a 61” hi-definition monitor.
The course is five, 8 hour days (40 hours) long and is presented over two consecutive weekends. The next training will be announced in this section, please check back frequently for updates. The training includes lectures on Dependency Law, mediator's standards of conduct, ethics, diversity training, psychological aspects of the dependency system, domestic violence, communication techniques, community resources, general mediation techniques, and court process, breaking impasse, Mediator's Ethical Advisory Opinions, and caucus. Each attendee will be a disputant and a mediator in role play mediations which will be critiqued by certified, professional dependency mediators. Other information will be disseminated though demonstrations and video tapes.
Our coarses have been previously approved by the Florida Bar for 48 general hours of C.L.E.R., 5 hours of ethics, and 19 hours for attorneys' certification, and an application is pending to renew the approval.
The cost for the training is $850.00, but a special discount rate for early registration of $825.00 will apply until 30 days prior to the training. If you are a State of Florida employee please inquire about the State discount.
Included with the training package at no additional charge is the Dependency Module of Nutshell Mediation Office, a software program which, among other things, prepares all documentation necessary and desirable for mediations. Daily snacks and lunch are also provided.
CME/CLEThe second and third day of the above training is open to the public for Continuing Legal Education and Continuing Mediation Education units. All required subjects are covered in those two days to satisfy the CME requirements in all fields of mediation.
David is a secondary trainer in County, Civil Circuit, Family and Dependency Mediation and is available throughout the State of Florida and elsewhere, to conduct Role Play Critiques.
Authored, developed and distributed Nutshell Office Production Incorporated's Nutshell Mediation Office which produces all the forms necessary and desirable to conduct all certifications of mediation in Florida.
Nutshell Office Productions, Inc. is a software production organization which is geared to the legal profession. The first of our products is Nutshell Mediation Office. The program was designed by an attorney with thirty-five years of experience in various areas of the law, who is a mediator certified in Florida to practice all fields of mediation and has mediated hundreds of cases. The programmer who created the runtime program is an experienced Visual Basic programmer who teaches the program at the collegiate level.
This powerful mediation software is designed to speed you through the rigors of producing all documents necessary and desirable for a successful mediation. It contains separate forms for Family, Dependency, Circuit Civil and County Cases. It is a stand alone product and does not require a word processor or data base to operate; it includes its own word processor and data base. The only requirement to run it is Windows 95 or higher and above and a reasonably fast computer; the faster the computer, the faster the merge process.