
Alec Wisner
Agency for Dispute Resolution
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9595 Wilshire Blvd.
9th Floor
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA
800-616-1202 x753
Fax: 818-776-1770
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Description of Practice
Commercial - I am prepared to do whatever it takes to resolve a specific case, including evaluative and distributive mediation techniques as well as old-fashioned jawboning.
Professional Background
1974-78 - Private practice, litigation
1978-96 - Owner and Manager - Printing and publishing businesses
1996-2002 - Partner - Stanbury, Fishelman & Wisner
1996-1999 - Lecturer, legal ethics,Lawtalk
2009-2009 - Lecturer, mediation, Lawtalk
1992- - Director - Golden Triangle Financial Services
2002- - Mediator and arbitrator, Wisner Dispute Resolution Services
2013- Mediator at Agency for Dispute Resolution
Experience
Alec has successfully mediated hundreds of cases during the past ten years. The parties have reached successful resolution in the vast majority of those cases. Alec's experience has taken him from courthouse to board of director meetings, to intimate sessions with divorcing couples, all in the course of his mediation practice.
Degrees
1974 – J.D. – University of Southern California Law Center
1971 – A.B. – U.C.L.A.
Training
Dates | Trainer(s) | Title |
2002 | Los Angeles County Bar Association/DRS | Basic Mediation Training - 30 hrs. |
2003 | Straus Institute, Pepperdine University – Encino, CA | Mediating the Litigated Case - 40 hrs. |
2004 | Jim Melamed - Oregon Mediation Center – Eugene, Oregon | Mediating the Divorce - 40 hrs. |
2004 | ACR National Conference, Sacramento, CA | “When ‘Sit Down, Shut Up and Behave’ Doesn't Work: Successful Mediation Strategies for Working with Enmeshed, Resistant and Angry Couples in Divorce Mediation” |
2004 | ACR National Conference, Sacramento, CA - Bill Eddy | “Working with Borderlines and Narcissists: Seven Skills for Dispute Resolution Professionals” - 2 hrs. |
2004 | ACR National Conference, Sacramento, CA | “Bringing Grief Out of the Closet in Divorce Mediation: The Art and Practice of Situational Mediation” - 2 hrs. |
2004 | ACR National Conference, Sacramento, CA | “Power Imbalances in Mediation: Ten Stages of Assessment and Twenty Specific Interventions” - 2 hrs. |
2004 | ACR National Conference, Sacramento, CA | “Mediating Imbalances in Financial Issues: Structuring the Process for the Clueless and the Controller” - 2 hrs. |
2004 | Peter Robinson, Lee Jay Berman - Dispute Resolution Services/Pepperdine University – Los Angeles, CA | Advanced Mediation Skills Forum - 8 hrs. |
2005 | Peter Adler, Robert Benjamin - ACR National Conference, Minneapolis, MN | “Stalinist Facilitation: The Uses, Abuses, Illusions, and Self-Delusions of Mediator Power” - 2 hrs. |
2005 | Nina Meierding - ACR National Conference, Minneapolis, MN | “Effective Strategies for Resolving Property and Spousal Support Issues in Divorce - 2 hrs. |
2005 | Louise Senfft Phipps - ACR National Conference, Minneapolis, MN | “Transformative Divorce Mediation: An Introduction to the Unique Challenges of Applying this Model to Divorce” - 2 hrs. |
2005 | Bernie Mayer, Chip Rose - ACR National Conference, Minneapolis, MN | “Innovative Caucus Strategies” - 2 hrs. |
2005 | Larry Fong - ACR National Conference, Minneapolis, MN | “What’s Going On Here? John Haynes Revisited” - 2 hrs. |
2006 | Jeff Kichaven - ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Annual Meeting – Los Angeles, CA | 8 hrs. |
2006 | Linda Meyer, Peter Robinson - Pepperdine University/Straus Institute, Culver City, CA | Looking Beneath the Surface - An Exploration of the Hidden Interests and Fears Which Impact the Mediation Process - 8 hrs. |
2009 | ACR National Conference, Atlanta, GA | Various Seminars - 15 hrs. |
2011 | Advanced Commercial Mediation Institute, San Diego, CA | 16 hrs. |
2011 | ACR National Conference, San Diego, CA | Various Seminars - 15 hrs. |
Approach
I prefer an integrative, facilitative method, but am prepared to do whatever it takes to resolve a specific case, including evaluative and distributive mediation techniques as well as old-fashioned jawboning. Part of my job as a mediator is to enable parties to understand risks and costs of litigation as well as the broad possibilities offered by mediation as opposed to litigation.
Fees
For fees, contact my Case Manager, Michele Pfeiffer, at (800) 616-1202 x706.
Other Information
In approaching family mediation, I prefer a very facilitative approach that aims to empower the parties to make the most capable decisions for themselves. I attempt to move position-based negotiations to those based upon underlying interests.
Areas of Practice
- ADA (25 mediated)
- Adult Family (50 mediated)
- Business (250 mediated)
- Civil (general) (400 mediated)
- Commercial (400 mediated)
- Construction (100 mediated)
- Contracts (300 mediated)
- Cross Cultural (100 mediated)
- Divorce (all issues) (40 mediated)
- Divorce (parenting) (10 mediated)
- EEOC (25 mediated)
- Employment (100 mediated)
- Family (50 mediated)
- General (400 mediated)
- Insurance (100 mediated)
- Landlord - Tenant (50 mediated)
- Legal Malpractice (20 mediated)
- Marital Mediation (40 mediated)
- Medical Malpractice (30 mediated)
- Partnership (50 mediated)
- Personal Injury (350 mediated)
- Real Estate (250 mediated)
- Victim - Offender (30 mediated)
- Workplace (75 mediated)
Professional Services
- Mediator
- Parenting Coordinator
- Online Mediator
- Conflict Coach
- Fact-Finder
- Mediator-Arbitrator
- Mediation Consultant
- Mediating Lawyer
- Collaborative Professional
- Facilitator
- Communication Skills Trainer
- Counselor
References
Jeffrey B. Bohrer, Esq.
Law Office of Jeffrey B. Bohrer
John Kalajian, Esq.
Law Offices of John Kalajian
Gary Aardema
Aardema & London
Keith Elder, Esq.
Law Offices of Keith F. Elder, APC
Scott E. Schutzman, Esq.
Law Offices of Scott E. Schutzman
Richard Stellar
Saving the Lives of Our Own and Interstellar9
Mark Egerman, Esq.
Egerman & Brown, LLP
Scott R. Keating, Esq.
Keating Law Office
Joseph M. Kar, Esq.
Law Office of Joseph M. Kar
Alan S. Lazar, Esq.
Marlin & Saltzman