'kon gres 2011 - LEADR's 11th international ADR conference

RUM Forum (Repeat Users & Mediators Forum)

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geoffsharp Join Geoff Sharp and a panel of mediation users for the RUM Forum – that is, a selection of lawyers and clients who repeatedly use mediation to resolve their disputes.

Geoff will moderate the discussion between the panel and the audience encouraging an exchange of ideas about what works, what doesn't and what should when we all find ourselves in the mediation room wearing different hats.

The panel includes: Mark Beech, Sharp Tudhope Lawyers, heads the dispute resolution team in New Zealand; Khory McCormick, Minter Ellison, head of Brisbane's Commercial Advisory, Dispute Resolution & Government Law groups, and Brett Heath, Carter Newell, specialist counsel for professional indemnity insurance.

Geoff Sharp

Geoff Sharp is a commercial mediator working in the main centres in New Zealand and more recently as needed in Sydney. He is the third LEADR Fellow and is the first Australasian to be elected to the International Academy of Mediators (USA).

Acknowledged as one of the pioneers of New Zealand mediation, Geoff is a Vice-Chair of the Independent Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute (IMI) in the Hague currently setting global mediator credentialing standards. In 2009 Geoff joined the International Advisory Board of Singapore Management University’s newly founded Centre for Dispute Resolution located in SMU’s School of Law Singapore.

Geoff remains as a barrister admitted to the New Zealand Bar, is an accredited mediator in Australia under the National Mediator Accreditation System and in New Zealand, he is on the advanced mediation panels of both LEADR and AAMINZ.Geoff has trained mediators and lawyers in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Malaysia and Thailand and has consulted widely to the New Zealand Government on aspects of public sector mediation.Prior to committing to a full-time mediation practice a decade ago, Geoff was a litigation partner at Bell Gully, one of New Zealand’s largest national commercial law firms.

For Geoff's website, see: www.geoffsharp.co.nz