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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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