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The Best Training for a Mediator? Mediation.

What is an adequate amount of mediation training? It’s a source of debate in legal circles. Unlike law itself, educational institutions seldom dispense formal degrees in mediation or arbitration. Few, if any, states require licenses or certification to practice mediation, and requirements differ from one accrediting group to the next. Mediation is an exacting profession without exacting admission standards.

Which leaves it to clients and counsel to judge the value and effectiveness of an individual mediator. In the end, the parties in dispute do not hire the brand name of a large or well-known firm. They hire the instincts, experience and intelligence of a single man or woman. They place trust in an impartial, empathetic individual, not an institution or brochure.

BDR mediators have the most appropriate training possible: decades of actual legal practice, working for and with clients — and decades more as successful mediators, with thousands of cases satisfactorily resolved.

Good mediators — BDR mediators — have more than intelligence and focus. They respect the particulars of each case rather than relying on their own ideas or force of personality alone. They know how to work openly, in a manner than wins trust in minutes, not days. They make eye contact. They assess the possibilities for closure and posit pragmatic, feasible ways forward. And, before and after the session itself, they go the extra mile to help their clients get beyond today’s problem.

BDR offers this rare combination of experience, empathy, and focus on more direct, efficient terms.

Experience, trust and good judgment count.