Nnena Odim

Serving as an Ombuds & Mediating Divorce, Family, and Employment Matters with MWI
Case Manager: Josh Hoch: 617-895-4028 | jhoch@mwi.org

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Dispute Resolution Experience

Nnena Odim is an ombuds, 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 LGBTQ 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 Director and Senior Clinical Instructor of the Family/Domestic Violence Law Clinic at The 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 has also worked 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 served as a coach of mediation skills for trainings at MIT, Suffolk and Boston College Law Schools, and New England School of Law. In 2013, Nnena was a Top Women in the Law award recipient from Mass. Lawyers Weekly. In 2015, she received the Harvard Law School Dean’s Award for Excellence.

Focus Areas

Organizational Ombuds Work
Worked with over 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 100 post-mediation Settlement Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding
Guardian ad Litem, appointed by Suffolk and Middlesex County Family and Probate Courts
Workplace and Employment Mediation

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

Top Women in the Law award recipient, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 2013
Member, Association for Conflict Resolution
Member, American Bar Association
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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