Don't know your BATNA from your WATNA from your ZOPA? Think PATNA is a type of rice? Not sure what Cellar Blindness is? Or what FDRs/DI Ps/ LIPs are? Mediation: An A-Z Guide tells you, distilling practical information, informed comment and useful advice and tips. Over 500 entries provide curated information on practical mediation topics guiding you through the thicket of mediation jargon.
Mediation: An A-Z Guide ensures you have no need to feel nervous about mediation because you:
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Walker, Stephen
Stephen Walker is an independent civil and commercial mediator. He has conducted over 750 mediations. He is ranked in the top 40 UK mediators by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and WWL and is on the International Mediation Institute's (IMI) panel of accredited international mediators.
He became an accredited specialist online mediator in 2015 and has done over 150 online mediations. He also undertook specialised training in family and workplace mediation and is dual certified in the USA through INADR.
Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Royal Society of Arts as well as a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London. He is regularly asked to give workshops, talks and presentations on mediation.
Stephen is the author of five mediation books published by Bloomsbury Professional Mediation Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation (2nd Ed); Setting Up in Business as a Mediator (2nd Ed); FAQs for Mediators; Mediation: An A-Z Guide; and Mediation Behaviour: Why We Act Like We Do.
For further information please visit www.swalkermediation.com
Stephen Walker practices as a civil and commercial mediator and has conducted over 300 civil and commercial mediations. He has undertaken specialised training in family and workplace mediation and advanced training with MATA and is dual certified in the USA through INADR. Stephen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration and also a visiting lecturer in mediation at Kings College London. He was also a judge at the ICI International Mediation Competition in Paris in 2014 and 2015; and a speaker and panelist at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Dispute Appointment Convention in November 2014 and the ADR Group's Annual Oxford Conference in 2014.
Publications
* Mediaton Advocacy: Representing Clients in Mediation (Bloomsbury Professional, 2015)
* Contributor to How to Master Commercial Mediation (David Richbell, Bloomsbury Professional, 2014) - chapter on mediating shareholder disputes and warranty claims
* Advising and Representing Clients At Mediation (co-written with David Smith, Wildy Practice Guide, 2013)
