Jeff Trueman, Esq., is an experienced, full-time mediator and arbitrator. He helps parties resolve a wide variety of litigated and pre-suit disputes and interpersonal problems concerning catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, professional liability, toxic and environmental torts, employment, business dissolution, and real property. Specializing in interpersonal conflict, he is well known as a manager of difficult conversations. Jeff joins Len Levy to tell the story of a business relationship between two women who had been friends since high school and had been operating a very successful hair salon business. Their business and personal relationship had deteriorated due to a variety of factors, not the least of which was the involvement in the business of one of the women’s daughters. How did Jeff overcome the considerable barriers to resolving the dispute? Listen and learn how a master mediator utilized a variety of tools and how a surprise appearance from “The Dude” got the job done!
Jeff is a past Director of Dispute Resolution for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, overseeing more than 70 retired judges and senior attorneys conducting over 1,500 mediations, settlement conferences, and neutral evaluations per year. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, an invitation-only membership organization consisting of some of the most successful commercial mediators in the world. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine School of Law in Malibu, California.
Jeff Trueman is a Certified online mediator, Mediate.com, a Full Member of the International Council for Online Dispute Resolution, and serves as a Panel Arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Jeff is in demand as a public speaker and presenter of mediation and negotiation-related dynamics at law schools, law firms, and dispute resolution conferences. He is also a recipient of the Paul A. Dorf Memorial ADR Award for “substantial contributions to the furtherance of the goals of alternative dispute resolution to resolve legal conflicts in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area.”