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About V.
Michelle Obradovic, Esq.
Owner, Law
Professor, Court Mediator for the 10th Judicial Circuit
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.
General Background V. Michelle Obradovic is an attorney / mediator and Court Mediator for the 10th Judicial Circuit, Jefferson County, Alabama. She has mediated in excess of 2800 cases involving businesses, estates, personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, environmental issues and torts, among others, including several hundred 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, Arbitral Women, Mediators Beyond Borders
and local Bar Associations and is a frequent speaker at professional seminars
on advocacy in mediation, mediator skills, mediator ethics and business
development locally, nationally and internationally. Michelle is the Director of the Jefferson County, Alabama, Court Mediation Project, a program she created in 1999, that provides dispute resolution training to attorneys and judges and coordinates mediators with court dockets for the Judges in the 10th Judicial Circuit. Michelle has also been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law since 2002 teaching Mediation Advocacy, Mediation Practice and Process, Negotiation, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Trial Advocacy and she is Coach of Cumberland’s ABA Representation in Mediation National Teams. 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). 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.
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