Member Profile: Thorns Craven

Thorns Craven
Mediation, Inc.
PO Box 15458
Winston-Salem, NC 27113

Tel: (336) 777-1477
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Website: www.mediationincnc.com

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ADR Services Include:

Mediation; ADR Training/CME

 

Thorns Craven has substantive case experience in the following areas...

ADA Disability
Arts (Fine, Performing)
Civil Rights
Commercial/Business
Community Associations
Construction
Consumer Fraud
Contract Disputes
Debt/Foreclosure
Education
Environmental
Health Care
Insurance
Land Use/Planning
Landlord/Tenant
Local Government
Non-profit Organizations
Personal Injury
Professional Fees
Professional Negligence
Real Estate
Torts
Transportation

 

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Full time mediator since 1992; In addition to serving as a mediator in several thousand cases, Craven has been one of the principal trainers in Mediation, Inc. 40 hour course for lawyers and others seeking certification as a Superior Court mediator. Since the course began in 1994, Craven has helped train over 4,000 people in mediation skills.

Practice devoted exclusively to conducting mediated settlement conferences and teaching others mediation skills and techniques

EDUCATION:

  • JD, University of North Carolina School of Law - 1969
  • BA, Washington & Lee University - 1962
  • Certified Mediator: Superior Court Settlement Conferences - 1992
  • Participant, Harvard Negotiation Project, Cambridge, MA - 1992
  • Principal Trainer in Mediation, Inc.'s 40 hour course on Civil Superior Court Mediation - 1994-present
  • Participant, KeyBridge Foundation Workshop on Mediation in Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA) cases - 1999
  • Advanced Mediator Training, Straus Institue for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law - 2000

Languages

English, German

Memberships & Affiliations

Member, NC State Bar
Member, NC Bar Association (Director, Special Committee on Indigent Legal Services Delivery Systems; Legal Services Planning Committee; Dispute Resolution Section)
Member, National Legal Aid & Defenders Association (Board of Directors; Executive Committee)
Board of Directors, North Carolina Legal Services Resource Center
Member, LegalAidNet National Advisory Committee

Rates

$175 per hour and a one-time administrative charge of $175. No charge for travel, but a four hour minimum fee for travel over 2 hours from Winston-Salem.

 

Thorns Craven is a member of the NC Academy of Superior Court Mediators, the state's premier roster of certified attorney-mediators. The NCASCM profile includes more specific local information, such as counties and regions served, and can be visited directly at www.ncmediators.org/thorns-craven

 

 
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