Piedmont Dispute Resolution Center (PDRC)

Oakland Circuit judge orders Rockwell Medical and former CEO and founder into mediation.  Mediate don’t litigate! Click below to read the article. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180529/news/662071/oakland-court-bars-rockwell-ceo-rob-chioini-from-business-he-founded

PDRC is pleased to announce that one of their family and general district court mediators, Meryem Grammick, was on the cover and featured in the Winter 2018 issue of She! Magazine.  Our mediators multitask that’s for sure!

Give to PDRC! Click here to go directly to our link on May 1, 2018!     https://www.givelocalpiedmont.org/PiedmontDisputeResolutionCenter

March Is Mediation Month! March 1, 2018 WHEREAS, 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the passage of the dispute resolution proceedings statute that continues to play an important role in institutionalizing the use of mediation in the courts in Virginia; and WHEREAS, with continued adherence to the 2002 Virginia Administrative Dispute Resolution Act, numerous governmental … More March is Mediation Month!

We are pleased to announce that we had a very successful 20-Hour Basic Mediation Class in early December 2017!  We trained nine people over a period of two and a half days.  According to the evaluations, the role plays were the best part of the trainings as students got to act as mediators in various … More Successful Basic Training Class!

http://www.mediate.com/articles/BenjaminDownton.cfm Downton Abbey Negotiations: A Primer on Surviving in Turbulent Times, Then and Now by Robert Benjamin January 2014 The author offers a ‘spoiler alert’ for those concerned. Some of the subject matter discussed references the current season. January 6, 2014 The PBS television drama series, Downton Abbey, depicting the turbulent social, cultural, and economic … More