Panel Presenters - Bios
Steve Shapiro is the ADR Specialist for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Administrative Litigation. Steve played an important role in designing and implementing his agency's new litigation office which is a team-based organization with one important design goal, which is to have more cases settle through consensual resolution. Steve also serves as a mediator in the Shared Neutrals Program, the Postal Service's REDRESS Program, and the Montgomery County Circuit Court and Bar Association Panels. In this capacity he has mediated well over 70 cases involving employment, contracts, and domestic matters over the last 7 years. He has also organized and taught ADR classes before hundreds of federal and private sector employees.
Jerry Roscoe is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator with sixteen years experience. He is a principal with ADR Associates in Washington, D.C. Mr. Roscoe
=s experience includes commercial, employment, medical, environmental, tort, insurance, family, telecommunications, law partnership, public policy and international dispute resolution. He is a certified mediator with the United States Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the Supreme Court Judicial Council of the Commonwealth of Virginia, The Center for Public Resources (CPR), and RESOLVE. He has teaching, training and public speaking experience and has worked extensively as a trainer for federal agencies.
Linda Netsch is a member of the ADR Team at Postal Service Headquarters. She provides attorneys, paralegals, and other Postal Service officials with advice, training, and mentoring in the use of ADR, particularly mediation. Ms Netsch also mediates federal cases, acts as ADR counsel in mediations, and is currently involved in helping the Postal Service make use of negotiated rulemaking. Prior to her current position with the Postal Service, Ms Netsch spent nearly 15 years in the Air Force. Her last assignment was as associate professor of law at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where she created the Academy
=s first permanent course in negotiation and conflict resolution. Ms Netsch is a consultant for the integration of women at The Citadel, teaching communication, conflict resolution, and prevention of sexual harassment. She is also an associate consultant and trainer for Egger, Philips & Partner, a Swiss negotiation consulting company. Since 1991 Ms Netsch has been on the teaching staff of the Harvard Negotiation Project, teaching summer seminars in negotiation and conflict resolution to lawyers and business professionals. She has taught interest-based negotiation skills to US Attorneys at the request of the Department of Justice.
RESOURCES
Books
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most@ by Doug Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen. Viking Penguin, 1999.
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The Promise of Mediation@ by Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger. Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Article
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Understanding Mediators= Orientations, Strategies, and Techniques: A Grid for the Perplexed,@ 1 Harvard Negotiation L. Rev. 7 (1996). Leonard R. Riskin
Websites
Center for Public Resources (CPR) Website: www.cpradr.org (Proposed Model Rule of Professional conduct for the Lawyer as Third Party Neutral
B cover page attached)
Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) Website: www.spidr.org (Home page attached)
American Bar Association
=s Section of Dispute Resolution Web: www.abanet.org/dispute/ (Home page attached) (Uniform Mediation Act B cover page attached)
Statutes
Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996 (ADRA) 5 U.S.C.
'571 et seq.
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 5 U.S.C.
'552 (1994 and Supp. II 1996)
The Privacy Act of 1974 5 U.S.C.
'552a (1994 and Supp. II 1996)