Forum Video: Considering the Use of NDAs in Mediation Settlements

  Brian Farkas is an attorney at Arent Fox LLP, focusing his practice on complex commercial litigation. He represents clients in state and federal court, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings. Previously, Brian served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Lehrburger of the U.S. District… MORE >

Professor Julie Macfarlane is a Canadian law professor who has spent her career researching, writing about and advocating for access to justice. She is Director of the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, and now Emerita Distinguished University Professor at the University of Windsor. Julie has researched and written on the legal… MORE >

Nancy Welsh is a recognized scholar and has been a professor of law for the last 20 years, teaching dispute resolution and procedural law. She has dedicated the better part of her career to the practice, system design and assessment of mediation and other negotiative and conflict management processes, including… MORE >

Amy Schmitz is the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. From 2016-2021 Professor Schmitz was the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law and the Center for Dispute Resolution. Previously she… MORE >

Jody L. Newman, Employment lawyer/Mediator, of Counsel, Boston Law Collaborative Moderators: Jody L. Newman is an employment lawyer, independent investigator and mediator with more than 35 years’ experience in resolving workplace disputes and investigating bias and sexual misconduct cases across workplaces and college campuses. Jody’s deep experience resolving employment disputes… MORE >