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| February 11, 2012 |
| Announcing WEBSITE DESIGN and SEO For Mediators By Thurman Arnold |
| Posted By Thurman W. Arnold, III |
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Website Design, Development and Optimization for
Divorce and Family Law Mediation
This blog article is written for anyone who is a mediator, or who is beginning to seriously consider making the commitment to establishing a mediation practice within their community. In order to be successful, you need to be visible to the public you would serve. However, for most legal professionals how to accomplish that visibility on the Web is a deep mystery.
I believe so passionately in mediation as a highly productive, relatively inexpensive, and richly satisfying alternative to family court litigation that I want to do everything within my sphere of influence to popularize it, including helping other lawyer-mediators and nonlawyer mediators to establish and develop their own dispute resolution practices. The internet is an incredible tool for reaching out to legal consumers and educating them about the availability and benefits of this option. It is an excellent setting for showcasing our own mediation philosophies and styles. Those of us who love to mediate because of the positive differences it makes in people's lives - and in our own professional practices to the extent that we divorce attorneys become an active part of the solution, rather than problem generators - have the opportunity and possibly even the responsibility to do everything we can to have an on-line conversation with disputants about the economic and emotional perils of adversary litigation. Mediator websites are a powerful platform from which to begin that dialogue. Not only do our on-line identities represent an ethical vehicle for attracting business and so earning a living, they are tools for change in how society, and people at the end of relationship in particular, make choices about what we value. If we value relationship warfare, that is what we will experience together with all the harm it causes ourselves and others. If people recognize that it is natural to be conflicted and reactive when the emotional and economic relationship implodes, but that it is possible to manage those feelings and to choose not to let them rule our lives, then another world of choices and outcomes opens up. The goal of dissolution related mediation is to alleviate human suffering, one couple at a time.
For these reasons I've decided to offer my services to legal and mental health professionals who wish to develop a sophisticated on-line presence in the field of divorce and family law mediation. After having invested hundreds and hundreds of hours developing my own sites, and sites for others (including two nationally recognized mediation trainers), I have gained a powerful intimacy with how Google and other search engines operate. I want to apply that expertise to your advantage. I can assist you with website design, in choosing and negotiating with the right website design company (for instance, Scorpion Designs), with important feedback concerning whether to incur costs with website developers like Findlaw.com and Mediate.com, and with search engine optimization techniques and content writing. My websites speak for themselves (please feel free to browse the links at the bottom of this page, and www.LosAngelesFamilyMediationServices.com). And they speak to potential mediation clients 24/7.
If you wish to know more about the types of services I can offer you, and the reasons why utilizing these services will have a far higher impact on your customer base and the success of your mediation practices, please visit me at www.FamilyLawSEOSpecialists.com.
Thurman Arnold, III
Mediation Website Design and Optimization
Email:
twarnold@verizon.net
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| February 07, 2012 |
| GARY FRIEDMAN to Teach RIVERSIDE County Attorneys Mediation Skills at Upcoming Workshop |
| Posted By Desert Family Mediation Services |
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I am pleased to be this year's Chair of the Desert Bar Association's Family Law Section (FLS). Together with Barrie Roberts, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Director for the Riverside County Superior Courts, FLS is putting on a mediation program for family law attorneys in the Palm Springs and greater Riverside County area to introduce us to the Understanding Based Mediation Model developed by Gary J. Friedman, and as a useful tool in appropriate family law cases for helping people resolve their cases with far less strife than traditionally encountered.
The Riverside County Superior Court is launching a county-wide Family Law Mediation Panel in March, 2012, which is aimed at serving at least two purposes: 1) increasing the number of trained family law mediators to include those family law attorneys who are approved by the Courts as having significant family law background and experience and 2) creating a pool of trained mediators for the new Voluntary Settlement Conference Program (VSC) that will begin to take place in April, 2012 for selected self-represented parties to pending dissolution cases.
Gary Friedman will be putting on a four-day workshop in Palm Springs at the end of February, and in the first week of March, for lawyers who have been accepted to the new Mediation Panel (and certain non-lawyers including mental health professionals, who will be eligible to co-mediate cases with attorneys), and for those who are interested in adding mediation to their family law and civil practices but who don't qualify for the Panel. This program is made possible through the sponsorship of the Riverside County Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Services program, as well as the sponsorship of the Desert Bar Association and the Riverside Courts.
Beginning in approximately April of this year, Judge Dale Wells of the Indio Superior Court will be supervising a new VSC program in Indio on the first Monday of each month, relying upon the services of the members of the newly created Mediation Panel. Its focus for now will be directed to assisting parties without lawyers to move their divorce and family law cases to conclusion through mediation rather than litigation. We hope to expand the program to make mediation a viable alternative for resolving pending cases in our jurisdiction.
This is truly and exciting development. Approximately 15 attorneys in the greater Coachella Valley will be participating in this workshop, as well as attorneys from Hemet and downtown Riverside. This is expected to have benefits to the public beyond the Panel and VSC program, by increasing the number of trained and experienced family law mediators in our area. Mediation truly helps attorneys, even in litigated cases, to focus on compromise and resolution rather than expensive and time-consuming litigation in every case.
T.W. Arnold, Chair of the Family Law Section of the Desert Bar Association (2012)
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