What Will Work For Food Does
The Will Work For Food programs are presented primarily by and for attorneys, mediators and arbitrators. Each Thursday at 8am Pacific an amazing colleague joins us to give a webinar presentation about a timely topic. These programs are free. You can join us for all or one. We don’t ask you to pay for these invaluable webinars, instead we hope that you’ll make a donation of any size to your local food bank.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
The Origin Story of Will Work For Food
In April of 2020, just as Covid19 was really taking root, I was like everyone else and endlessly watching various television news channels. The physical, emotional, mental, economic, and political tolls of coronavirus were devastating and just getting started. I watched, and was stunned at the speed at which demands on food banks doubled, then tripled, then kept growing. It was heartbreaking.
My immediate response was to write a check. But I’m just one shorter-than-average woman with limited financial resources. I couldn’t do much all by myself. I was also feeling quite small (existentially that is, not a dig on being 61 inches).
To make myself feel better and to possibly do some good I called on my colleagues in the resolution industry to help. I created Will Work For Food to help raise awareness and donations for food banks worldwide as well as provide educational programs for the ADR industry. The programs offered are created by and for mediators, arbitrators and attorneys.
Will Work For Food programs are free. The speakers are volunteers and greatly appreciated. The moderators, Jeff Kichaven and Jean Lawler, donate their time, money, professionalism, love for the resolution industry, and passion for helping. They are one and all good humans. Thank you all.
I hope that you enjoy what you watch, feel moved to participate, will share the invitation to join us each Thursday with your colleagues, and are able to make a donation of any size to food bank near you.
Natalie Armstrong-Motin
Meet Our Team
Natalie Armstrong-Motin
Mrs. Armstrong-Motin is the author of “The Essential Guide to Marketing Your ADR Practice”. She is frequently invited to speak around the globe on the successful marketing strategies of the resolution and legal industry. For more than 26 years she has been the business and marketing consultant to many of the premier providers in the ADR industry. Her company, Marketing Resolution (known formerly as Golden Media), has designed and developed thousands of business strategies, websites, social media platform engagement plans, and email campaigns for private practices, firms, educational institutions, authors, organizations and associations around the world.
Mrs. Armstrong-Motin has received certificates in both Mediation and Arbitration from the Institute of Conflict Management and International Mediation from both Tulane University School of Law and Humboldt University School of Law in Berlin Germany. She has received nearly 150 hours in training in numerous national and international mediation, arbitration and communication courses.
She was Vice President of the Southern California Mediation Association and Chair of the Membership Committee, a member of the Board of the London Club. Mrs. Armstrong-Motin has served on the Board of the California Dispute Resolution Council. For the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section she served as Vice-Chair of Practice Development Committee and as the Co-Chair of the Standing Committee for Practice, Business and Skills Development, Vice-Chair of Website Committee and International Membership Committee member.
To contact Natalie directly please email Natalie@HowToMarketMyMediationPractice.com or log on to the Marketing Resolution website.
Jeff Kichaven
Has generously donated hundreds of hours to Will Work For Food as our moderator.
He is an independent mediator of business disputes with an international, online practice who help lawyers and clients cement relationships as tough cases get settled.
"Ranked in Chambers (USA)" list of the country's top mediators for the past three years.
Who's Who Legal "Global Elite Thought Leader" in mediation.
California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award in ADR, 2006. Instructor, Master Class for Mediators, Harvard Law School, 2007. Award for Excellence in Mediation, Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center, 2010. Best Lawyers' "Best Mediation Lawyer in Los Angeles," 2015.
Harvard Law School (JD Cum Laude, 1980).
University of California, Berkeley (AB Economics, 1977; Phi Beta Kappa).
Specialties: Insurance Coverage, allocation and Bad Faith; Intellectual Property/Information Technology/Entertainment; Professional Liability; Employment; Trusts and Estates.
To reach Jeff Kichaven directly email him at JK@JeffKichaven.com or log on to his website at www.JeffKichaven.com
Jean M. Lawler
Has generously volunteered to serve Will Work For Food as a moderator.
Based in Los Angeles, California, Ms. Lawler is a commercial mediator and arbitrator whose nationwide practice focuses on commercial, insurance and general civil litigation, including matters involving data breach, ransomware, privacy violations and cyber insurance. Since March 2020 she has conducted @200+ online mediation sessions. Ms. Lawler’s legal experience has been diverse and international – ranging from insurance litigation to professional liability and complex commercial litigation to evolving risks such as ADA, data breach, cyber & privacy liability. She has a deep knowledge of the insurance industry, insurance policies and the various risks they insure against (primary, excess, reinsurance, program, surplus lines, London Market + international insurers).
Ms. Lawler received her JD from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and her basic mediation training from Pepperdine University Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. She holds a BBA degree (Finance) from Loyola Marymount University. In 2020 she received the CIPP/US (Certified Information Privacy Professional) certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, Ms. Lawler has been recognized as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” since 2006 (Insurance Coverage - 2006-17; ADR - 2018-present). She has been recognized on Martindale’s Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers and has been on Super Lawyer’s list of Southern California Top Women Lawyers, in 2016 being one of only 20 women recognized in the field of Insurance Coverage. She is honored to be a Fellow and Founding Regent of the American College of Coverage Counsel and a Past President of both the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel and of the Insuralex Global Insurance Lawyers Group (Chambers-Band 1). She is a member of Arbitral Women and the ABA’s Women In Dispute Resolution.
To reach Ms. Lawler directly, email her at Jlawler@LawlerADR.com or log on to her website at: www.LawlerADR.com