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FORMAL MEDIATION TRAINING
Mediating the Litigated Case, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, the nation's leading program in dispute resolution
A forty-hour program for neutrals who mediate disputes already in suit. Completed 2026.
STATE COURT MEDIATOR ROSTER
Registered on the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution Roster
Available for court-referred mediation appointments statewide, in addition to private engagements by agreement of the parties.
PRACTICE AREAS · FIDUCIARY DISPUTES
“A public filing never disappears. A private room leaves no record.”
In trust and fiduciary mediation, these disputes put family relationships, professional reputations, and the trust itself at risk. A private resolution protects all three.
MATTERS MEDIATED
Trustee & personal representative liability
Breach of fiduciary duty
Accounting challenges & surcharge
Trustee-removal petitions
Trust administration conflicts among beneficiaries
Guardianship & conservatorship matters
WHY THE BENCH MATTERS HERE
For ten years these were the cases he decided from the bench: trustee conduct, disputed accountings, removal petitions. In caucus, his assessment of how a court will weigh a fiduciary's actions carries the authority of someone who has made that ruling.
And because fiduciary allegations can end careers and divide families whether or not they are proven, the confidentiality of mediation is worth as much as the outcome. No filing, no docket, no audience.
EASTERN SHORE MEDIATION
P.O. BOX 1473 · FAIRHOPE, ALABAMA 36533 · (205) 531-1116 · JIM@EASTERNSHOREMEDIATION.COM