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Forrest (Woody) Mosten
Information on Forrest Mosten:
website: www.mostenmediation.com
Collaborative Attorney and Mediator, Los Angeles
Recipient of ABA Lawyer as Problem Solver Award, ABA Lifetime Award for Legal Access, and Peacemaker of the Year Award, Southern California Mediation Association
Author: Collaborative Divorce Handbook, Mediation Career Guide, and Unbundling Legal Services (Online order form)
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Biography of Forrest Mosten:
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orrest S. Mosten is a family mediator and collaborative lawyer who has been in private mediation practice since 1979. Mr. Mosten is in constant demand as a master trainer for mediators and collaborative professionals for basic courses, advanced courses, individual supervision, and training other conflict resolution trainers. He is popular presenter at mediation and family law conferences throughout the world. In addition to his work as a neutral, Mr. Mosten maintains an active practice as a family lawyer representing clients in divorce, pre-marital agreements, and complex-high conflict issues in property, support, and parenting issues after divorce. The California State Bar has recognized Mr. Mosten as a Certified Family Law Specialist. Mr. Mosten does not accept engagements that involve court appearances. He practices with a collaborative and problem solving model and has trained Collaborative Lawyers throughout the world and serves as a negotiation and mediation consultant for other family litigators. Mr. Mosten is again named Super Lawyer by Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine and as one of the top 25 Family Mediators in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Mr. Mosten has been given two major awards by the American Bar Association: A Lifetime Achievement Award for Innovations in Legal Access by the ABA Section of Delivery of Legal Services and Mr. Mosten was named the recipient of the Lawyer as Problem Solver Award by the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution.
Mr. Mosten teaches mediation as a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law. He also teaches in the Dispute Resolution Programs at Hamline School of Law and Pepperdine School of Law. He has taught at USC Law Center, Whittier School of Law, SMU, University of San Diego School of Law, and was Director of Clinical Education and law professor at the Mercer School of Law. In addition to training mediators, lawyers, therapists and organizations world-wide, Mr. Mosten has published numerous articles on mediation and is the author of The Complete Guide to Mediation (ABA , 1997). His last book, Mediation Career Guide, was published in 2001 has been a bestseller on Amazon in mediation since its release. His next book, Collaborative Divorce Handbook shall be published by Jossey- Bass in 2009. Mr. Mosten is recognized as the “Father of Unbundling” for his pioneering work in promoting Discrete Task Services for lawyers to play a major and effective role in mediations and his ABA book Unbundling Legal Services: A Guide to Delivering Legal Services A La Carte was published in 2000 and he served as a Keynote Speaker at the first national conference on unbundling in October 2000 in Baltimore. Mr. Mosten is the Editor of Family Court Review’s Special Issue on Collaborative Law and was the Plenary Presenter at the 2008 Annual Conference of Association of Family Conciliation Courts and and shall be the opening Plenary presenter at 2009 ABA Dispute Resolution Meeting in New York. Mr. Mosten has also been credited as the inventor of the Client Library, Confidential Mini-Evaluation, and as an authority on preventive law including his use of the Conflict Wellness/Personal Legal Check-Up, first developed by Mr. Mosten’s mentor, Professor Louis M. Brown. Mr. Mosten was named 1999 Peacemaker of the Year and 2006 Conference Keynote Speaker by the Southern California Mediation Association, was awarded the Louis. M. Brown Conflict Prevention Award by the Los Angeles County Bar, and is the founding Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Beverly Hills Bar and recipient of its President’s Award for his work in mediation. He currently serves as Chair of the ADR Committee of the Family Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar and has been Executive Chair of the International Client Counseling Competition since 1989.
Currently, Mr. Mosten is actively engaged in a number of initiatives to increase the awareness and use of conflict resolution and prevention in our society. He is the Chair of the Association of Conflict Resolution Taskforce to establish a National Peacemaker Museum and is a key thinker and supporter of the movement to form a US Department of Conflict Resolution and Prevention. In 2006, the Southern California Mediation Association established the SCMA/Forrest S. Mosten Mediation Library Fund to set up citizen information centers on conflict resolution institutions throughout Southern California. And in 2007, the University of California at Riverside established the Forrest S. Mosten Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Program to form an academic Minor Degree in this area of study, an annual Scholar in Residence and Lecture Program, and a student internship program. Mr. Mosten was the inaugural Scholar in Residence on May 6-7, 2008 and his lecture was : “Peacemaking: From Kindergarten to the Middle East.” Following this lecture, Mr. Mosten to served as UCR’s 2008 Commencement Speaker at which he addressed 5,000 people on the topic, “Taking a Peacemaker Pledge.” His innovations in mediation and legal access have been reported in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, The New York Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Chicago Tribune, ABA Journal and many other publications throughout the world. Mr. Mosten is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Riverside and received his Juris Doctorate at the UCLA School of Law. He is married to Dr. Jody Mosten, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in her own private practice . He has a daughter, Jordana Mosten, age 24, and a stepson, Derek Grotzinger, age 27. He is a passionate golfer whose handicap ranges from 10 to 17, depending on his workload.
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