ADR In Practice. Real Tools for Real Cases.
Join us for two full days of engaging MCLE Programming! Featuring ADR Services, Inc. speakers, this immersive event is designed to strengthen your everyday practice. You’ll leave each program with concrete practice tips, strategic takeaways, and materials designed for immediate use. Register for the event, and you will be able to build a custom agenda to attend as many courses as you need!
All credits will be issued before the 2026 MCLE reporting deadline of March 30, 2026.

ADR In Practice. Real Tools for Real Cases.
Join us for two full days of engaging MCLE Programming! Featuring ADR Services, Inc. speakers, this immersive event is designed to strengthen your everyday practice. You’ll leave each program with concrete practice tips, strategic takeaways, and materials designed for immediate use. Register for the event, and you will be able to build a custom agenda to attend as many courses as you need!
All credits will be issued before the 2026 MCLE reporting deadline of March 30, 2026.

Presented at the California Eminent Domain Annual Conference: From Project Inception to Acquisition: Collaborative Solutions.

 Join us for an engaging, interactive panel with Southern California mediation masters on new ABA Ethics Opinion 518.  The panel will discuss mediation ethics and provide practical tips and techniques from decades of real-world experience mediating high stakes litigated cases.

Co-Sponsored by the Women in Trial Travel Summit, What I Wish the Other Side Knew pulls back the curtain on what really matters to each participant in mediation.

In this candid, practitioner-driven program, seasoned panelists include plaintiff’s attorney Michelle West, defense attorney Wilma Gray, and mediator Debra Bogaards (who has a background representing both sides). The panel will share the insights they rarely get to say out loud—what they need, what they worry about, and what helps (or hurts) the path to resolution.

The panel explores critical moments before and during mediation, including effective briefing and information exchange, navigating layered insurance coverage and multiple parties, addressing ability-to-pay issues and bankruptcy realities, and preparing clients for the emotional and strategic “day in court” experience. The discussion concludes with practical strategies for crafting creative, sometimes non-monetary settlement terms that move cases forward when money alone isn’t enough.

Designed for attorneys on both sides of the aisle, this program offers practical perspective-shifting insights that can lead to more productive mediations—and better outcomes for clients.

Mediation of affirmative tenant claims are never just two-sided disputes — they are multi-layered negotiations shaped by local eviction control ordinances, insurance coverage issues, and the value of the tenancy.

Join Steve Abern (Mediator/Panel Counsel), Jacqueline Ravenscroft (Plaintiff’s Counsel), and Jeff Woo (Personal Counsel) for a candid, practical discussion of who’s really in the room — and how their roles intersect before and during mediation.

This program moves beyond generic mediation advice to focus on the players and their interplay: panel counsel, personal counsel, claims representatives, and plaintiff’s counsel. Through real-world habitability and wrongful eviction case examples, the panel will explore preparation and case evaluation, insurance coverage issues, attorney’s fees, statutory penalties, potential tenancy buyouts, and the optics that influence carrier decision-making.

Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how each role evaluates risk, communicates with carriers, navigates authority, and shifts strategy at mediation — and how to work more effectively across the aisle to reach resolution.

In this one-hour seminar Monty McIntyre, Plaintiff's counsel Will Small, and Defense counsel Micaela Banach will discuss many important case employment case decisions published in 2025 by the California Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeal.