Thursday, September 11th
Our special guest this week, Diana Mercer, Esq., retired Attorney-Mediator will Present:
Bridge to Exit: Crafting and Cashing in on Your Mediation Practice
If you’d like to sell your practice when you retire or switch gears, you need to have something to sell---financials, IP, good will, and/or tangible assets. These don’t have to all be perfect, and you don’t have to have all of them, but you need a good mix of these or you won’t have anything to sell. Advance planning will set you up for success when the time comes to cash out
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Our presenter:
Diana Mercer sold her mediation practice, Peace Talks Mediation Services, Inc., in 2013. She’s a graduate of the Indiana University Mauer School of Law and has a bunch of impressive credentials, happily none of which matter anymore.
Diana Mercer, Esq. is a retired Attorney-Mediator and the founder of Peace Talks Mediation Services in Los Angeles, California (www.peace-talks.com), which she built by herself from the ground up and sold in 2013. A veteran litigator, she devoted her practice solely to mediation starting in 2000.
She is the co-author of Making Divorce Work: 8 Essential Keys to Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Your Life (Penguin/Perigee 2010), Your Divorce Advisor: A Lawyer and a Psychologist Guide You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of Divorce (Simon & Schuster/Fireside 2001) and 8 Simple Keys to Building and Growing Your Mediation or Arbitration Practice (Peace Talks Press 2011). An active blogger, she wrote for the Huffington Post and maintained the interactive Making Divorce Work blog. She’s an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and is admitted to practice law in California, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Since her retirement, she’s attended culinary school in the United States and France, written a novel, Cooking School, A Love Story (Quill & Copper 2024), played in the World Series of Poker, traveled extensively, renovated houses, learned woodworking, learned to fish, attended bartending school, and rescued a sassy pug, among other dogs.
Offered by Will Work For Food, founded by Natalie Armstrong-Motin (www.HowToMarketMyMediationPractice.com, moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com) and Program Coordinator, David Shraga
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