Thursday, January 21st
8:00am PST | 11:00am EST
“Resolving Family Business Disputes - A Different Species of Mediation”
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
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Our special guest will be Richard Lutringer, Mediator
Mr. Lutringer is a Mediator in NY and CA of complex disputes among business owners, including members of family-owned enterprises, as well as probate and trust beneficiaries. Chair of Mediation Practice Group of the Family Firm Institute. American Foreign Law Association (past president),Member of mediation panels of CPR, AAA, C.A.R.S., NADN, US Bankruptcy Court, CDCA, NY Supreme Court, Commercial Division, NJ Superior Court, NYC Surrogate's Court (past Chair Pilot Mediation Panel.) Certified by MC3, ICI, CEDR. (London), IMI, Family Firm Institute, (Family Business Advisor). Judge and member of Program Committee of ICC Annual Mediation Competition; Partner, Morgan Lewis, Schiff Hardin. J.D. Cornell, M.C.L.Chicago. Civil Law Studies, Munich.
Presentations at annual conferences of ACR, NYSDRA, NYSBA, ABA (Business Law Section), FFI and NYCBA.
“Resolving Family Business Disputes - A Different Species of Mediation”
Disputes among business owners who are also family members present an increased level of complexity. Mediators helping to resolve a management or shareholder dispute in that context are faced with patterns of behavior that may be at cross-purposes to working cooperatively. A matriarch's striving to suppress disagreement among siblings in the hope of maintaining "peace in the family" may have planted the seeds of dissension that grow into open conflict after her passing to the detriment of both the family and the business.
The remarks will explain how undiscussed underlying issues can be addressed openly both in private session and in an open group setting using the interventions of facilitative mediation
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