Bucks Writs - Summer 2018 - 21

The Top 10 Reasons
Why the BCBA Dispute Resolution
Committee is Happening!!
-By Georgeann R. Fusco, Chair

We won the 2018 Pennsylvania Bar Association County
Bar Recognition Award for "Mediation Moments"!!
"Mediation Moments" are videos located on the BCBA
website explaining the benefits of mediation. Thank you to
Barbara N. Lyons, Esquire, and Joseph A. Chellew, Esquire,
for their outstanding performances and to Robert Whitley,
Esquire, for his outstanding filming and editing.

of Marcia Binder Ibrahim, LLC (Spanish translation); Dorian,
Goldstein, Wisniewski & Orchinik (Polish translation); and
Barbara N. Lyons, Esquire (Russian translation).

Good Shepherd will conduct Basic Mediation Training
at the BCBA on August 22 - 24, 2018. Thank you to
our sponsors: Covenant Bank and Barbara N. Lyons, Esquire.

We maintain the list of approved attorney mediators
on the BCBA website and the Bucks County Court
of Common Pleas website. If you need a mediator, please
check out this list.
Attorneys can now complete and submit their
mediator application for placement on the Mediator
List directly from the BCBA website.
We updated the Dispute Resolution Alternatives
Brochure, which is available on the BCBA website
and at local offices such as the Bucks County Prothonotary's
Office, Bucks County District Justices' Offices and Bucks
County offices of Legal Aid of Southeastern PA.

The Dispute Resolution Alternatives Brochure has
been translated into Spanish, Polish and Russian with
all versions available on the BCBA website and at the local
offices listed above. Thank you to our sponsors: Law Office

Barbara N. Lyons, Esquire, and Hillary Moonay, Esquire,
will co-present a CLE about mediation during the
BCBA Bench Bar Conference to be held September 20 - 22,
2018 at the Hershey Hotel.
Barbara N. Lyons, Esquire, presented the Mediation
for Civil Litigators Continuing Legal Education course
("CLE") on April 11, 2018 at the BCBA.
We supported, through a BCBA Resolution,
the Statewide Alternative Dispute Resolution
Commission, which is a commission that would coordinate
mediation throughout Pennsylvania.

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We meet four times a year. Our next meeting is
October 12, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. at the BCBA. New
members are welcome.

The mission of the Dispute Resolution Committee is to educate the public about alternative means to resolve disputes and
to assist the Bucks County Bar Association membership in their position as mediators. 

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