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Since 1994, when she limited her professional practice to mediation, Joan Morrow has conducted over 1000 mediations, currently enjoying a resolution rate exceeding 96%. The cases Joan has mediated have involved all aspects of employment law (including discrimination, sexual harassment, defamation, tortious interference and non-competes), as well as professional firm and business dissolutions, intellectual property, breach of contract, fraud and malpractice. She has mediated or served as a court-appointed settlement master in numerous multi-party and class action cases involving discrimination, healthcare contracts, consumer fraud and Fair Labor Standards Act issues.
In 2001, Joan relocated from Minnesota, where she had practiced since 1978, to Williamsburg, Virginia, becoming an East Coast-based mediator, mediating in person in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., and nationally via videoconferencing.
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Civil |
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Commercial |
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Employment |
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Insurance Bad Faith |
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Insurance Claims |
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Professional Malpractice |
IAM Member since
2004
Background
From 1978 to 1994, Joan Morrow was a litigation partner with the Rider Bennett firm in Minneapolis, where her practice focused on employment law and litigation and insurance coverage disputes. Her initial act of professional peacemaking came when she was asked in 1985 to chair the Minnesota State Bar Associations Task Force on Tort Reform, a committee composed of diametrically opposed plaintiffs and defense counsel. For forging consensus on difficult issues, Joan was awarded the Bar Associations Presidents Award for Professional Excellence. She was then appointed Chairman by the Minnesota Legislature of its Injury Compensation Study Commission.
Her years of experience as a litigation lawyer showed Joan that mediation might be a superior means of resolving disputes. After mediating for four years as part of her litigation practice, Joan became a fulltime peacemaker in 1994. Her skill at dealing with people with strongly held principles and heightened emotions, combined with her thorough preparation, have worked to make her a successful professional mediator.
Education/Training
B.A., Cornell University.
J.D., cum laude, William Mitchell College of Law.
Licensed to practice in Minnesota.
Basic and advanced mediator training from the Center for Dispute Resolution in Boulder, Colorado, The Mediation Center in Minneapolis and U.S. Arbitration and Mediation.
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