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Biography
V. Michelle Obradovic,
Esq., Mediator, Owner
The defining characteristic of
any mediation practice is the value of dialogue. Through facilitating the
exchange of ideas, we can help parties and advocates recognize issues,
clarify their perceptions of them and understand the ways in which one issue
bears upon another, amplifying, modifying or challenging what has come
before. We are the experts in process; a process that when properly done,
makes the wise resolution self-evident to parties committed to the concept of
self-determination. I have the knowledge, skills and abilities the mediation
process demands, and the experience necessary to be an effective advocate for
resolution. It would be my pleasure to discuss with you the opportunity of
serving as your mediator.
 Professional
Education
• B.A. Communication and Business,
Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
• J.D. (accelerated) Cumberland School of Law,
Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
• LL.M. Pepperdine University,
Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Malibu,
California
General Background
V. Michelle Obradovic is an attorney / mediator and Court Mediator for
Jefferson County, Alabama. She has mediated in excess of 2300 cases involving
businesses, estates, personal injury, wrongful death, products liability,
environmental issues and torts, among others, including co-mediation of over
145 complex cases.
Michelle is a member of the
panel of neutrals for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Alabama, is listed on the Supreme Court Appellate Mediation Roster, and the
Alabama State Court Mediator Roster. She is an active member of the
International Academy of Mediators, Arbitral Women, Mediators Beyond Borders
and local Bar Associations and is a frequent speaker at professional seminars
on advocacy in mediation, mediator skills, mediator ethics and business
development locally, nationally and internationally.
Michelle is the Director of the Jefferson
County, Alabama, Court Mediation Project, a program she created in 1999, that
provides dispute resolution training to attorneys and judges and coordinates
volunteer mediators. The Project resolves in excess of 400 small claims cases
per year and since 2004 has been charged with mediating all pending property
tax appeal cases in Jefferson County. The next phase of the Project is
Victim/Offender Conferencing and Restorative Justice programs in the county.
Michelle has also been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law since 2002
teaching Mediation Advocacy and Mediation Practice and Process and is Coach
of Cumberland’s ABA Representation in Mediation National Teams.
She was educated by the Sisters of Notre Dame
de Namur at Trinity College in Washington DC, is a graduate of Samford
University, Cumberland School of Law and holds an LL.M. from Pepperdine
University, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Michelle clerked for Judge Michael F.
Bolin, Probate Court of Jefferson County (now a member of the Alabama Supreme
Court) and Senior Judge Edward S. Smith, (dec.) U.S. Court of Appeals Federal
Circuit, Washington, DC and for the 104th Congress, United States Senate
Judiciary Committee, Democratic Minority Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Technology and Government Information, Senators Herbert H, Kohl (D-WI),
Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
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