Elder Mediation Group
Conflict Resources for Elders and Their Families
4000 Bridgeway, Suite 401
Sausalito, California 94965
415.289.0423 • fax 415.663.4204 • dlc@eldermediationgroup.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dana Curtis Mediation, Sausalito, California 1997-present
Mediation, fact-finding and facilitation of wide range of civil and workplace matters;
mediation training
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco 1993-1997
Full time Circuit Court Mediator, mediating hundreds of federal civil appeals
Mediation Law Offices, Mill Valley, California 1991-1993
Private mediation practice in employment, tort, commercial and family disputes
McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen, San Francisco and San Jose 1988-1991
General commercial, tort and employment litigation and labor practice
California Supreme Court, San Francisco 1987-1988
Law clerk to Associate Justice Edward A. Panelli
NEUTRAL EXPERIENCE
Mediated over 1,000 matters since 1991. Substantive areas include: business and commercial, civil rights, employment and labor, franchise, elder (abuse/probate, trusts & estates/adult family), family and unmarried partnership dissolutions, homeowner association and neighbor disputes, partnership dissolutions, partition actions, personal injury, product liability, real property (partitions/landlord-tenant/homeowner/neighbor, sexual abuse and workplace disputes. Recognized by the L.A. Daily Journal as a “Top 50” California neutral.
MEDIATION TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Elder Mediation Group, Advanced Elder Mediation Workshop. San Francisco 2009
As principle of EMG, designed and taught 3-day intensive on elder mediation, Including
litigated cases (elder abuse/probate, trusts & estates) and adult family decisions and
disputes
Stanford Law School, Lecturer in Law 1997-2006
Mediation and interviewing and counseling seminars, Gould Center for Conflict Resolution
Programs
Court of Appeal, First, Second and Third Appellate Districts 2000-present
Designed and taught five-day training for approximately 600 court mediators
San Francisco Zen Center Conflict Education Program 2005 – present
Designed and taught conflict and mediation workshops and leadership groups
Minnesota, Arizona, Hawaii and Nevada Appellate Courts 1997-2008
Designed and facilitated trainings in appellate mediation two-day training
Stanford Law School Executive Education 2003
Mediation and Mediation Advocacy Training 5-day program for lawyers
University of Rome, La Sapienza and Hamline University School of Law, Rome, Italy 2003
Designed and co-taught Mediating International Business Disputes
Santa Clara University School of Law, Adjunct Professor 1988-1997
Designed and taught Interviewing, Counseling and Mediation and Mediation Theory and
Practice (for lawyers and law students)
Diverse ADR, San Francisco 1997
Designed and taught 40-hour mediation training for start-up panel of minority mediators
MEDIATION TRAINING
Over 1,000 hours of mediation training, including:
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco 1999
Two-day panel mediation training with Michael Lewis and Linda Singer
Harvard Program on Negotiation, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1995
Five-day mediation training with Robert Mnookin and Gary Friedman
Center for Mediation in Law, Mill Valley, California 1990-1994
30-hour introductory and advance trainings, conflict, communication, neutrality
EDUCATION
Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D. 1987
University of Idaho, M.A., English 1970
University of Montana, B.A., English 1968
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bonner County School District, Sandpoint, Idaho 1970-1983
English and Child Development teacher; Idaho and National Teacher of the Year
North Idaho College, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 1972-1983
Director of satellite campus; instructor of American Literature and Composition
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Founder, Director and Secretary, RockRose Institute 501(3)(c), San Francisco 2004-present
Supporting conflict resolution through dialogue and collaboration; producing Justice
Religion and Conflict Resolution: A World Forum, 2007, San Francisco
Member, John F. McFetridge American Inn of Court 1993-present
Member, Ethics and Reconciliation Council, Zen Center of San Francisco 2003-present
Co-chair, Bar Association of San Francisco Mediation Committee 1997-2005
Board of Directors, California Dispute Resolution Institute 2002 - 2003
Member, California State Bar ADR Standing Committee 1999-2001
Co-chair, Training and Programs Committee, BASF ADR Section 1992 -1994
Chair, San Francisco Barristers Club ADR Committee 1991-1993
Member: Mediation Society; Association for Conflict Resolution of Northern California;
California Dispute Resolution Council
Mediator Panelist: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; Court of Appeal,
First, Second and Third Appellate Districts; Marin Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco
Superior Courts; UCSF Mediation Program; Boston Law Collaborative
PUBLICATIONS
Litigator’s Guide to Representing Clients in ADR, co-author of two chapters, “Preparing for Mediation“ and “The Mediation Process,” Continuing Education of the Bar, 2005.
Ninth Circuit Education Programs on Court Sponsored ADR, Western Justice Center, 2006.
“Representing Clients in Appellate Mediation,” The Recorder Appellate Symposium
Handbook, 2001 (with John Toker).
“Representing Clients in Appellate Mediation: The Last Frontier,” Dispute Resolution Alert, December 2000 (with John Toker).
“The Power of Forgiveness,” California Lawyer, December 2000.
“The Role of Empathy in Reconciliation,” chapter in ADR Personalities and Practice Tips, 1998.
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DANA L. CURTIS, Esq.
