Contact Steven Shapiro

Mr. Shapiro serves as a mediator and neutral in family matters including divorce, separation, custody, parenting plans, alimony, pre-nuptial agreement, marital separation agreements, elder cases including care, medical directives and decisions, capacity, guardianships, family business.

Mr. Shapiro is an attorney who has been a pioneer in the field of dispute resolution for the past 30 years. He has served as a federal mediator, and appointed by State, Local and Federal Governments to mediate national cases impacting the environment and environment. He helped begin Alternative Dispute Resolution/mediation practices in the US Government, the State of Maryland and Montgomery County, Maryland Circuit Court in the decades of the 1990's and 2000's. He has served as a mediator on hundreds of family law and divorce mediation cases.

Mr. Shapiro served as a law firm partner with Press, Potter and Dozier, a Federal Mediator with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a corporate counsel with a Fortune 200 firm, Continental Telephone Co., and as a mediator for September 11 First Responders settlements.

Mr.Shapiro has taught, trained and practice in the field of Dispute Resolution for the past 30 years. He has served in well over a thousand cases involving family, employment, commercial, environmental and public policy. Training received as an ADR Professional Include:

- The Center for Dispute Settlement,. Mediation Training for the Professional
- The Center for Dispute Settlement - Advanced Mediation for the Professional
- Advanced Mediation - Harvard Law School
- Negotiation Training - Harvard Law School
- Multiparty Mediation and Public Policy Mediation - CDR & Associates

Juris Doctor - Antioch University School of Law, Advanced Clinical Work in Family Law

Bachelor of Business Administration - Adelphi University, Major, Organizational Design

Graduate Law Work, George Washington University Law School - major Government contracts

Mr. Shapiro's approach to mediation and conflict resolution is a transformative listening approach that first off enables all parties involved in the conflict to feel heard and recognized for their interests and concerns. Mr. Shapiro works with the parties in listening together to the other's concerns and finds that when this type of sharing takes place, often miracles begin to happen in the process. Mr. Shapiro recognizes that conflict often cycles through the mediation. This means that when the parties regress or reach an impasse what is often occurring is some earlier need or concern was either not fully expressed or heard by the other. Mr. Shapiro keeps the parties eyes on listening for the key needs of the other. When this takes place, there is a greater capacity to develop settlement options and solutions that may have not been considered prior.

Family and local commercial business mediation and ADR - $360.00 per hour.

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