Mid-Hudson Valley
Society for Human Resource Management

January 23, 2014Chapter Meeting
Collaborative Law

SPEAKER: Marc O. Sheridan

Location: Harness Racing Museum

240 Main Street

Goshen, NY 12549

845-294-6330

DATE & TIME: Thursday, January 23, 2014

8:15 - 8:45 am Registration, Breakfast

8:45 – 9:15 Announcements & Introductions

9:15- 10:30 am Program

COST: $15 Chapter Member; $25 Non-Chapter Member; $7 Student

Please reserve your spot by contacting Beth Schick at[email protected].

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Collaborative law is an efficient employment litigation alternative.  Collaborative Law offers employers and employees a private, client-centered process that encourages good-faith, face-to-face negotiations of employment disputes.  Workshop participants will observe and learn how Collaborative Law facilitates settlement through structured interest-based negotiations relying on reason rather than emotion.  Through lecture and video excerpts, Mr. Sheridan will demonstrate how the Collaborative process helps parties identify individual interests, address mutual concerns, and develop workable practical solutions for employment disputes.   

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: MARC O. SHERIDAN, Esq., is a mediator with the Southern District of New York’s mediation panel as an employment mediator, the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division, and the Westchester County Human Rights Commission. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association ADR Section and Collaborative Practice Committee, the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP), and the Global Collaborative Law Council. Mr. Sheridan frequently writes, lectures, and is consulted on employment law developments and dispute resolution techniques for both human resources professionals and business owners in the New York City metropolitan area. In 2009, Mr. Sheridan was interviewed on CBS Internet radio on the benefits of Collaborative Law in the business and employment context.  In October 2011, Mr. Sheridan lectured on utilizing ADR techniques in employment and business disputes for the New York State Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section, and the IACP at its annual forum in San Francisco. Mr. Sheridan is also founder of the New York Civil Collaborative Group, which in 2012 completed a CLE video webinar for lawyers through the International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution on using Collaborative Law in employment disputes. In May 2013, Mr. Sheridan was interviewed in Bloomberg BNA’s Human Resource Report and presented to the Dallas Bar Association’s Collaborative Law and Labor and Employment Law Sections on applying Collaborative Law to workplace disputes.

In addition to his mediation and collaborative law experience, Mr. Sheridan has represented clients for more than a decade concerning employment discrimination claims, restrictive covenants, deferred compensation plans, reductions in force, negotiation of severance agreements, and executive compensation issues.   He has litigated claims under the ADEA, ADA, Title VII, the New York State Human Rights Law, and the New York City Administrative Code in state and federal trial and appellate courts. Mr. Sheridan regularly appears in FINRA and AAA arbitrations on behalf of securities industry professionals regarding unpaid bonuses, promissory notes, and contractual disputes. Mr. Sheridan also has extensive experience representing corporate clients on risk transfer and liability issues involving commercial leases and contracts.