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Voluntary Early Mediation (VEM) ProgramChoosing a MediatorThe parties agree that BASF will administer the case if this mediator is chosen. File the Mediation Consent form (43KB Norman BrandMediator/Arbitrator
Since 1983, Mr. Brand has practiced full time as a dispute resolution neutral. He has mediated executive compensation, commission, discrimination, and wrongful termination disputes involving employees of Fortune 500 - as well as smaller-companies. He has mediated discrimination cases for the EEOC, a Super Fund dispute for EPA, wage and hour disputes, the model agreement between the State of California and the Sacramento Delta Reclamation Districts, and the nation's first "pay for performance" contract in the Denver City School District. He mediates appellate employment cases for the Court of Appeals, First Appellate District. Brand is respected as a quick study who brings a problem solving approach to complex factual, legal, and scientific issues. He guides parties to examine the risk-adjusted value of their dispute, and focuses them on negotiating their differences. He is resolute in moving parties toward settlement. He was named a Northern California "Super Lawyer" in ADR, in 2006, 2007and 2008. Brand is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, and a member of the Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation at UC San Francisco medical school. (Mt. Zion campus) His publications include How ADR Works (Washington: BNA, 2002), and contributions to "ADR and Settlement," in California Practice Guide - Employment Law (Rutter Group: 2001) and Designing Integrated Conflict Management Systems (Cornell Studies in Conflict and Dispute Resolution, 2001). Brand has a Ph.D. and has taught mediation, negotiation, and arbitration to neutrals, and students at Albany Law School and Hastings College of the Law. Hourly Rate: $500 |
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