Mediation with Joe Salama - Conflict Resolution

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BIOGRAPHY

Joe Salama is a trial attorney licensed to practice law in California. Mr. Salama has litigated and helped resolve hundreds of cases in the areas of general civil litigation, commercial litigation, personal injury, medical malpractice, real estate, landlord/tenant, employment, construction defect, admiralty/maritime, and family law, among others, in federal court, in state court, before arbitration panels, the Department of Labor, the Workers Compensation Appeals Board, and in mediation. Mr. Salama obtained his mediation certification and his undergraduate degrees from U.C. Berkeley, and his law degree from Boston University School of Law, with a concentration in dispute resolution.

Mr. Salama's approach is very different from the traditional and more commonly practiced "evaluative/directive" approach which typically involves high pressure and intentionally long sessions. Although Mr. Salama draws on his jury trial and litigation experience to help the parties evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of their cases before going to court, he does not use this framework to force a settlement. Mr. Salama simply looks at it as one of the many possible outcomes for the mediation, and then helps the parties explore other, more optimal, win/win outcomes. This style of mediation virtually eliminates the "buyer's remorse" that parties often experience the day after the mediation.

Mr. Salama is fluent in English and in Arabic, Egyptian dialect.

PRESS

Mr. Salama was featured in an article in the San Francisco Examiner Online in July of 2009, which can be seen by clicking here.

Mr. Salama was interviewed on Arab American Television in San Jose, California in July of 2008. A twenty-minute clip of the interview can be viewed by clicking here.