NNENA ODIM | Mediator
MWI Divorce & Marital Panel
Four Faneuil Hall - Fourth Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02109-1632
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 Dispute Resolution Experience

Nnena Odim is a mediator, trainer, attorney, and consultant. She has been mediating since 1997 and has mediated disputes involving issues such as employment, housing, business, consumer, and specializes in mediating the full range of family/domestic relations (elder care, adoption, care and protection, CHINS, divorce, grandparent visitation, and GLBT issues, etc.). Nnena also designed and/or led numerous conflict management trainings for several local and national businesses and agencies, including Coca Cola Enterprises, the Boston Public Schools, and the Massachusetts Housing Authority. In addition to her mediation and conflict resolution training background, Nnena is the Associate Director and Clinical Instructor of the Family/Domestic Violence/GLBT Law Clinics at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. She provides experiential training to law students as she teaches them how to become effective and ethical attorneys.  Nnena also works with the Harvard Mediation Program and Harvard Program on Negotiation to provide trainings for students and various community members and to supervise Harvard Law School students in their mediation and negotiation studies. Nnena has mediated personal, academic, and administrative issues between students and faculty in higher education settings and serves as a coach of mediation skills in trainings at Suffolk and Boston College Law Schools, and New England School of Law.

Representative Matters
  • Worked with close to 100 same-sex couples in both mediation and litigation, on a variety of legal scenarios, such as 2nd parent adoptions, divorce (with and without children), paternity, business dissolution, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, and donor agreements for sperm donation
  • Drafted over a hundred post-mediation Settlement Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding
  • Guardian ad Litem, appointed by Suffolk and Middlesex County Family and Probate Courts
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
  • Member, Association for Conflict Resolution
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Ethics and Client Grievance Committees (Legal Services Center) 1999-2005
  • Licensed Real Estate Broker
Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted
  • Training faculty for MWI’s annual Advanced Divorce Training
  • Guest lecturer for Suffolk and Boston College Law Schools’ mediation courses
Background and Education
  • J.D., Northeastern University School of Law (1997)
  • M.S., University of Massachusetts/Amherst (1991)
  • B.S., University of Pittsburgh (1985)
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