“MCAD Announces New ADR Initiative – Keeping Your Options
Open”
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has announced a
new alternative dispute resolution initiative which will impact all
practitioners who appear before the Commission.
You are cordially invited to attend the Labor and Employment
Section Open Meeting on September 27, 2012 regarding the Commission’s
Collaborative Law Pilot Project.
The panel will include:
·
Moderator John F. Tocci, Tocci Goss
& Lee PC
·
Commissioner Sunila Thomas-George, MCAD
·
Linda
Cohan, MSW, CSC
·
Michael A. Zeytoonian, Esq., Zeytoonian Center for Dispute
Resolution, LLC
Commissioner Thomas-George will discuss this new initiative, its goals and how
it adds another process options for those with cases before the MCAD, Attorney
Zeytoonian will speak on behalf of
the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council (MCLC) which developed the Pilot
Project to provide this novel ADR option to parties who appear before the MCAD
and will provide the perspective of a collaborative lawyer representing one of
the parties, and Ms. Cohan will provide the perspective of a neutral
coach/facilitator in the collaborative case process.
This Open Meeting is a joint presentation of the Massachusetts Bar
Association’s ADR Committee and Labor and Employment Section and is a free
program.