Judith Kaluzny, long-time North Orange county divorce lawyer and mediator, has  been accepted as a presenter for family law mediation at the 19th annual Mediation Week observances, Therese Gray, member of the OC Mediators Committee, announced yesterday.

This year’s event, “Celebrating Mediation Week in the OC,” will be held March 18 at Coastline Community College Garden Grove campus. Download the Mediation week flyer.

“We anticipate the conference will attract approximately 200 dispute resolution practitioners from all over California and beyond, said Ms. Gray.  The Orange County Mediation Conference committee sponsors include CSP, Inc. – Dispute Resolution Services; Mari Frank, Esq. and Associates; Gray Mediation; OC Human Relations Commission; Scott Mather and Debra Rocha.

Judith Kaluzny’s topic is, “The Elkins Family Law Task Force: Do Private Mediators Have a Role in the new Regime?”  She has attended nearly all the public meetings of the Elkins Task Force which was appointed by the California Judicial Council to fix family law courts.

Kaluzny, who practices in Fullerton, was a presenter at the first mediation week observance in Orange County, instituted by then-chair of the Board of Supervisors, Roger Stanton, in 1992.         Other areas of mediation that will be addressed include     the Community Practitioner – landlord-tenant, neighbor, HOA, peer, school; the Civil Mediation Practitioner – small claims, limited civil, unlimited civil, unlawful detainer, civil harassment; the Restorative Justice Practitioner – victim-offender, criminal restraining orders, restitution, talking circles, spiritual; the Business Practitioner – construction, employer-employee, labor contracts, malpractice, personal injury, insurance, real estate; and the Face of the Practitioner – ethics, dispute resolution styles, practice building