Rosemarie McElhaney

Practice Areas:
• Employment/Workplace
• Real Estate
• Insurance
• Contracts
• Victim Offender
• Consumer Issues
• Community Issues
• Family: Divorce, Parenting,
Child Support, Spousal Support,
and Property Division

“A place to be heard and respected” – Rosemarie McElhaney

OVERVIEW: Rosemarie McElhaney is a practicing attorney and training certified mediator serving the Southern California area for over twenty years with offices in North and South Orange County. She also serves as a hearing officer for the California Housing Finance Agency. With an undergraduate degree in psychology and a Juris Doctorate in law, she also has over two thousand hours of training in mediation, collaboration, interest based negotiation, facilitation, neutral fair hearing and communication skills. Rosemarie has limited her private law practice to mediation and collaborative law where she facilitates settlements without court intervention.

BIOGRAPHY: Rosemarie’s experience includes work as an Administrative Law Judge, Judge Pro Tempore, Adjunct Law School Instructor, Negotiator, Mediator, Orange County Superior Court Mediation Panel, Riverside County Superior Court Mediation Panel, Mediation Trainer, United Nations NGO mediation delegate to international conferences, Speaker and Mediation Program Director. She co-founded Redwood Empire Community Mediation Center, Sonoma County Probation Department’s Juvenile Victim Offender Mediation Program and Collaborative Divorce Solutions of Orange County where she was also founding President Elect. She has served on the Board of Directors for Mariposa Community Center, Redwood Empire Mediation Center, Southern California Mediation Association and Collaborative Divorce Solutions of Orange County.

Rosemarie is zealous about mediation, the expanding collaborative movement and other consensual dispute resolution models. She consistently volunteers her time contributing to local, state, national and international organizations which promote dispute resolution solutions and participates in conferences, committees, advanced trainings and annual presentations. She has participated in the United Nations Climate Change Conferences in Mexico and Europe as a Mediation Beyond Borders International mediation delegate and is currently being solicited to participate in an international peace research project in Switzerland.

COURT ADMISSIONS
• Supreme Court of California
• United States District Court for the Central District of California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
• California State Bar Association
• Association for Conflict Resolution
• Mediation.com
• Southern California Mediation Association
• Mediation Beyond Borders International
• Alliance for Peace
• Anaheim Hills Rotary Club
• Rotary International

EDUCATION & TRAINING
• Juris Doctorate – Western State University College of Law – Fullerton, California
• Advanced Graduate Study: Psychology & Education – University of Nevada – California State University
• Bachelor of Arts: Psychology – California State University – Los Angeles, California
• Mediation Training Institute – Employment – Workplace
• Administrative Law Judge – Insurance
• Center for Mediation In Law – Family Law
• Center for Understanding in Conflict – Divorce
• Stott Monsma & Associates – Real Estate
• Sonoma County Legal Service Foundation – Victim Offender
• MSU International Training Center – Cross Cultural
• Mediation Beyond Borders International – Intercultural
• Redwood Empire Mediation Center – Community
• Sonoma County Legal Service Foundation – Racial Diversity
• CDA Center – Environment
• Colorado Dispute Resolution Center: Mediation Process
• Lemmon Mediation Institute: Mediation Process
• St. Vincent Community Service: Mediation Process
• Redwood Empire Mediation Center: Mediation Process
• Forrest Mosten (UCLA Mediation Professor): Advanced Mediation
• Forrest Mosten (UCLA Mediation Professor): Advanced Monthly Mediation Study
• University of Nevada Judicial College: Fair Hearing Process
• The Law Collaborative Center: Collaborative Process
• Stuart Webb (Father of Mediation): Mediation & Collaborative Process
• Stuart Webb: Advanced Collaborative Practice
• Tessler & Sandmann: Advanced Collaborative Process
• LACFLA: Advanced Collaborative Process
• American Mediation Institute: Advanced Dispute Resolution
• William Lincoln/The Lincoln Institute: Interest Based Negotiation
• William Lincoln/The Lincoln Institute: Collaborative Negotiation
• Forrest Mosten (UCLA Mediation Professor): Mediating with Attorneys
• Los Angeles Superior Court & Orange County Superior Court Mediation Panel
• Conflict Resolution Research Institute: Mediation Training for Trainers
• Marshall Rosenberg / NV Communication Center: Non-Violent Communication
• Administrative Law Judge Forum

Rosemarie McElhaney – Profile

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