Spring 2012 30-hour Civil Mediation Training

Enhance your practice or career – become a court-approved and/or private practice civil mediator.

Mediation is rapidly becoming the preferred method for parties to resolve lawsuits and disputes. If you are an attorney, accountant, business person, mental health or other professional and want to become a qualified civil mediator and receive training from New Jersey's premier association of professional mediators, you should take this course.

The course will be held on March 11, 12, 25 and 26, 2011 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (centrally located off NJ Turnpike exit 9).

Why take your mediation training from NJAPM?

• Instructors who are highly experienced and distinguished mediators.
• Miss only two weekday workdays.
• Small class size: class limited to 24 students.
• Numerous valuable role plays with personalized role play feedback for each student.
• Meets the basic training requirements for admission to the court’s civil mediation roster under Rule 1:40.

The course fee is $1,195.  Course fee includes all meals, snacks and course materials (except the course textbook).

NJAPM reserves the right to cancel the training and return all fees. Any cancelation by a student received within ten days of the course start date will be subject to a 25 percent cancelation fee. Refunds will not be issued after the program has started. The deposit is not refundable.

Maximum of 24 students in a class.  A waiting list will be taken once we have reached the class maximum and those students will have priority for the next class.

Continuing legal education credits (including ethics credits) have been applied for and are pending.

Further details can be found in the attached flyer below.
 

Recommended optional courses:

Law for non-attorneys: To be effective, a mediator must be able to speak the language of their clients.  Being fluent in civil and court procedure is essential in earning the trust and respect of the attorneys in each case.  This addition to the basic course is recommended for all non-attorneys.  Please visit the link to learn more.

Civil Mediation Apprenticeship: Practice your mediation skills and gain experience by mediating actual court cases in special civil part under the supervision of an accredited mediator.  Many past civil mediation training students go on to take the apprenticeship.  Click the link to learn more.

To register for the 30-hour Civil Mediation Training course:

Click here to sign up for the 30-Hour Civil Mediation Training or to pay your balance due.

The mandatory textbook is "The Practice of Mediation: A Video-integrated Text" by Douglas Frenkel and James Stark.  The book can be purchased from Amazon.com at this link.