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V. Michelle Obradovic, Esq., Mediator, Owner
The defining characteristic of any mediation
practice is the value of dialogue. Through facilitating the exchange of
ideas, we can help parties and advocates recognize issues, clarify their
perceptions of them and understand the ways in which one issue bears upon
another, amplifying, modifying or challenging what has come before. We are
the experts in process; a process that when properly done, makes the wise
resolution self-evident to parties committed to the concept of
self-determination. I have the knowledge, skills and abilities the mediation
process demands, and the experience necessary to be an effective advocate for
resolution. It would be my pleasure to discuss with you the opportunity of
serving as your mediator.
 Professional
Education
• B.A. Communication and Business,
Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
• J.D. (accelerated) Cumberland School of Law,
Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
• LL.M. Pepperdine University,
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Malibu, California
General Background
V. Michelle Obradovic is an attorney / mediator and County Mediator for
Jefferson County, Alabama. She has mediated in excess of 2000 cases involving
closely held businesses, estates, personal injury, wrongful death, products
liability, environmental issues and business torts, among others, including
co-mediation of over 145 complex cases.
Michelle is a member of the panel of neutrals
for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, is listed
on the Supreme Court Appellate Mediation Roster, and the Alabama State Court
Mediator Roster. She is an active member of the International Academy of
Mediators and the American and Birmingham Bar Associations and is a frequent
speaker at professional seminars on advocacy in mediation and mediator skills
and ethics locally, nationally and internationally.
Michelle is the Director of the Jefferson
County, Alabama, District Court Mediation Project, a program she created in
1999, that provides dispute resolution training to attorneys and judges and
coordinates volunteer mediators. The Project resolves in excess of 400 small
claims cases per year and since 2004 has been charged with mediating all
pending property tax appeal cases in Jefferson County. The next phase of the
Project is to begin developing Victim/Offender Conferencing and Restorative
Justice programs in the county. Michelle has also been an Adjunct Associate
Professor of Law since 2002 teaching Mediation Advocacy and Mediation
Practice and Process and is Coach of Cumberland’s ABA Representation in
Mediation National Teams. She was educated by the Sisters of Notre Dame de
Namur at Trinity College in Washington DC, is a graduate of Samford
University, Cumberland School of Law and holds an LL.M. from Pepperdine
University, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Michelle clerked for Judge Michael F. Bolin, Probate Court of Jefferson
County (now a member of the Alabama Supreme Court) and Senior Judge Edward S.
Smith, (dec.) U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, Washington, DC and for the
104th Congress, United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Democratic Minority
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information, Senators
Herbert H, Kohl (D-WI), Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
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