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Andrew Schepard: Challenges Within Family Mediation

This video is presented as part of Mediate.com’s 25th Anniversary Conference.

Andrew Schepard discusses challenges within family mediation: domestic violence, cultural differences and parties’ expectations of the mediator, and a need to pre-screen violent parents.

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Andrew Schepard

Professor Andrew Schepard's special interests are in family law, especially as it affects children, civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution and developing simulation-based programs of clinical education. He is the co-director of the Hofstra University-North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's Center for Children, Families and the Law. In 1995 Professor Schepard… MORE >

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