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Upchurch Watson White & Max is a Florida- and Alabama-based professional association of mediators. Our team of conflict resolution specialists practices in a wide range of alternative dispute resolution disciplines. Specific areas of practice include business mediation, corporate mediation, commercial mediation, family mediation, arbitration and more. We also offer niche services such as multi-party, complex, malpractice and class action mediation. Please explore our site to learn more about our mediators in Florida and Alabama and the mediation services we offer.

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Mediator Cristina Maldonado Hosts, Instructs Group's First-Ever Entirely Online 40-Hour Family Mediator Training

UWWM mediator Ana Cristina Maldonado, together with other trainers, recently took to Zoom to present a five-day family mediation training course. They had been scheduled to teach live and in-person for the Florida Mediation Training Center in Davie, but those plans were upended by the Covid-19 restrictions. The Monday before the class was to begin, "we figured we were cancelled," Cristina says. "On Tuesday, the Supreme Court said we could do it online." Two days later, she started the online meeting, launching the class.

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Time of Covid-19 Has Solidified Technology's Merger With Mediation Mediator Cristina Maldonado to Present Zoom 'Lunch & Learn' for Palm Beach Hispanic Bar Association Mediators Art Garcia and Richard Lord to Present Webinar on Remote Mediation Today Mediate with us virtually, using Zoom or GoToMeeting

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Fred Lauten, Former Chief Judge of 9th Circuit, Joins Upchurch Watson White & Max

He begins his mediation career as in-person conferencing has been curtailed, but he has a strategy for that and for preparing attorneys and parties to get maximum results from mediation videoconferences.

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Upchurch Watson White & Max Establishes Model Cybersecurity Protocol for Mediation Videoconferences Upchurch Watson White & Max Moves Up to a New Office in Miami John B. Marion IV, a Named Partner in South Florida Law Firm, Pursues Full-Time Mediation Practice South Florida Mediator Ana Cristina Maldonado Joins Upchurch Watson White & Max

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NADN Executive Director Says Reports on Zoom Flaws Should Not Be 'Headline News'

"This is a classic case of 'user error' – as advised during our Zoom webinar in March, if you’re going to use Zoom for mediations (or any business purpose) you should ALWAYS ENABLE WAITING ROOMS functionality and ALWAYS PASSWORD PROTECT your meetings. Once mediations start, you can also LOCK those meetings. Those steps alone make it impossible for unwanted guests to crash your meeting - period. And, on Apr 5, Zoom changed DEFAULT settings so waiting rooms + password requirement are the norm across all paid accounts now."