MWI College and University Mediation Program Overview
MWI offers our college and university clients a wealth of experience in higher education and employment matters,
expert
consultation on the form and timing of dispute resolution, and competitive
prices. We are sensitive to the needs of higher education and fully
understand its culture.
We could be especially helpful to you in the following types of mediation:
• EEO claims
• Disputed terminations
• Disputes involving faculty, administrators, students, or departments
• Tenure disputes
• Labor-management contract disputes
Our clients turn to mediation to avoid the expense of trial. Many have
also found that mediation can produce excellent cost-saving results before a
dispute has turned to litigation. And for organizational disputes or those
between individuals, mediation has often found solutions that rebuild
relationships, save management time, and avoid adverse publicity.
Sample Panel Bios
Steven S. Manos, the former Executive Vice President
of Tufts University, mediates for Mediation Works, Inc., the Boston Bar
Association, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. His work includes
employment and business disputes, family disputes and divorce, and
landlord/tenant suits. EVP of Tufts for 26 years, Steve was responsible for
finances, human resources, legal services, information technology, and plant
management. Earlier he served as a corporate attorney and as an Assistant
District Attorney and administrator for the Manhattan District Attorney. He also
was the CEO of a social services agency, a senior administrator for the Cornell
University Medical College and an Assistant Executive Director of the American
Bar Association. Steve served as an officer on an aircraft carrier in the U.S.
Navy, heading the ship’s legal office. He currently serves on the Boards of the
Cambridge Health Alliance and Network Health, a health insurer, where he is Vice
Chair. Steve has a B.A. from the University of Minnesota, summa cum laude, a
J.D., cum laude, from the New York University School of Law, where he served as
Note and Comment Editor of the law review, and an M.P.A. from New York
University. He has a doctorate in business administration, honoris causa, from
Tufts University.
Charles P. Doran is an experienced mediator, trainer, and ombudsman
specializing in the resolution of business and workplace disputes. Charles is
the founder of Mediation Works Incorporated (MWI), a dispute resolution service
and training organization in Boston, Massachusetts. A mediator since 1992, he is
a member of the CPR Dispute Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Massachusetts Commission
Against Discrimination (MCAD), Mediation Works Incorporated (MWI), the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Dispute Resolution Panel, the Harvard
Mediation Program and the United States Postal Service REDRESS I and REDRESS II
Mediation Panels. In addition to his mediation work, Charles works nationally
and internationally as a dispute resolution trainer and consultant with
corporate, governmental and non-profit clients including Coca-Cola Enterprises,
General Motors, Bose Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harvard
Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School. Charles has served as a teaching
assistant on multiple occasions with Professor Roger Fisher at Harvard Law
School's Program of Instruction for Lawyers Negotiation Workshop. In 1993,
Charles completed a Specialization in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the
Program on Negotiation and chaired two regional ADR Conferences in 1997 and
1999. Charles served as a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution and was Chair of the Qualifications
Subcommittee. Charles is an arbitrator with the Massachusetts Bar Association's
Fee Arbitration Board and is a past president of the Association for Conflict
Resolution (formerly the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution), New
England Chapter.
Jane Juliano has over fifteen years experience in mediation and
arbitration and is an Adjunct Professor in Mediation and Negotiation at the
Georgetown University Law Center at George Washington University Law School.
Jane has mediated cases of complex litigation with multiple parties, private and
governmental. She was appointed mediator with the District of Columbia and
Virginia Courts, the World Bank, the Federal Election Commission and Arbitrator,
U.S. Library of Congress Copyright Royalty Arbitration Panel. Construction
dispute resolution case highlights include resolving real estate matters and
investment property interests for construction development, mediation and
arbitration of construction disputes, including claims for failure of structure
at a construction site resulting in personal injury, construction contract
damages, real estate/construction of parking garage and general substantial
construction contract damages. Trainings she has conducted include the
Department of Justice, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the U.S.D.A,. the EEOC,
the International Trademark Lawyers Association - San Paulo, Brazil and Berlin,
Germany 2007-8 and Difficulties in Settlement – Personality Disorders,
Georgetown Medical School. She recently returned from conducting mediation
training sessions in China. Jane graduated with honors from Georgetown
University Law Center and she is a member of the American Bar Association,
Sections on Dispute Resolution, Employment and ADR in Tax; the Ethics Committee,
American Bar Association, Section on Dispute Resolution and past President of
the Virginia Mediation Network. Jane is currently a Scholar of the College at
Harvard University and she continues there as an associate professor as well.
She also continues workplace investigation and mediation and arbitration
nationally.
John G. Wofford has been on MWI’s panel of mediators for many years. He
is a lawyer, but for over 25 years has provided only impartial services in
hundreds of matters in a wide range of subject areas, including universities.
Jack was a law clerk for a United States District Judge, a partner in the real
estate department of a Boston law firm, a senior mediator at Endispute, Inc.,
and held positions of responsibility in universities (Fellow and Associate
Director, Institute of Politics, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government 1966-70;
project director, Legal Issues in Urban Transportation, Harvard Law School
1969-71) ) and in state and federal government (Director, Central Transportation
Planning Staff for the Boston Region 1974-77; Deputy General Counsel, US
Department of Transportation 1977-79). He is a past co-chair of the ADR
Committee of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the Boston Bar Association.
From 1999 to 2002, he was a Presidential appointee to the Federal Service
Impasses Panel, which resolves disputes in negotiations between the federal
government as employer and its unionized employees. He has had his own dispute
resolution practice since 1993. Jack is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard
Law School, and of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Scope of Services
Mediation: We encourage college and university general counsels,
deans, directors of human resources and other decision makers to utilize MWI's mediation services. Mediation is a
voluntary process designed to resolve disputes efficiently and fairly, costing
the parties substantially less than if they were to engage in extensive
discovery and go to trial. MWI is dedicated to bringing parties together
to settle disputes. We have a wealth of experience in dispute resolution and
deliver reliable, quality service attuned to the needs and interests of our
clients.
Contact
For more information, including fees, please call Tad Mayer, Director of Commercial
and Facilitation Programs at 800-894-8323
x26 or tmayer@mwi.org
or fill out the form below
for more information or to schedule a session.
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