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Tony Belak

YEAR 2000 Training and Teaching Activities of TONY BELAK


Tony Belak is the former Senior Dispute Resolution Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is not only a mediator and arbitrator but also a teacher in basic, advanced, and specialized conflict resolution. He is recognized as a national leader in establishing mediation programs within the workplace.

Tony is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law and Indiana University Southeast College of Business MBA Program. He is the first attorney graduate of the George Washington University Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives (1992). He founded the Louisville Bar Association ADR Committee and served for seven years on the Kentucky Bar Association ADR Committee and was its co-chair for two years. He is a former Regional Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs and was an original member of the Civil Justice Reform Act Committee for the Western District of Kentucky, former assistant Commonwealth Attorney, special assistant U.S. Attorney, and President of the Federal Bar Association, Kentucky Chapter. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the American Health Lawyers Association ADR Service, and a mediator/arbitrator with the Southern Indiana Realtors Association, Inc.

Mr. Belak has traveled throughout the United States lecturing and training in mediation and dispute resolution. He is the founder and current president of the Federal ADR Council, Inc., a shared neutral mediation project for federal agencies in Kentucky and Indiana. He was instrumental in establishing the Mediation Association of Kentucky, the Jefferson County Court Annexed Mediation Rule, the Federal Court prisoner petition mediation project, and one of the earliest peer and truancy mediation programs in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He served on the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service task force to establish core competencies for their roster of neutrals.

Tony lives with his wife Phyllis in New Albany, Indiana, just across the river from Louisville in a one hundred year old Victorian house, which they renovated themselves. He is a member of Immediate Solutions, LLC, a provider of specialized dispute resolution and can be reached at (812)949-0303 or (812) 987-0443 and ADRLAW2000@aol.com  ( www.KentuckyMediation.com )


YEAR 2000 Training and Teaching Activities of TONY BELAK

·        Jan. 20, 2000 …address to the Southern Indiana Realtors Association (2 hr)

·         Feb. 1 ….. Charleston, SC; training and work group facilitation for Army Corps of Engineers (2 days).

·         Feb. 3 …Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC, Mediation Awareness Training (1 day).

·         March 10-11 … Nashville, TN, address to the Mediation Association of Tennessee (3 hr on 2 days).

·         March 23 … Jackson, MS, Partnership Council group facilitation for hospital network top management and union officials.

·         March 25 … Spaulding University, Louisville, KY, address to graduate school Leadership Class regarding conflict resolution in the workplace and leadership skills (2 hr).

·         April 4 …San Francisco VA Medical Center, Advanced Mediation Skills Training (2 days).

·         April 5 … address to Partnership Council for hospital network in Northern California regarding workplace conflict resolution (1 hr).

·         April 8 … Address to American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, mediation within a business setting topic (1.5 hr).

·         April 26-28 … Conflict Management and Leadership Training, Association of Internal Auditors, Louisville, KY ( days).

·         May 19 … Columbus, OH, Leadership Skills Training for New Managers, VA Healthcare Network of Ohio (2 hr).

·         May 22-26 … Basic Mediation Skills Training for VA Upstate New York Health Care System (4 days).

·         June 20-22 …Montgomery-Tuskeegee VA Medical Center mediation awareness training and mediation marathon (90% success rate).

·         June 26-28 …Las Vegas, NV, Advanced Mediation Skills Training for VA Southern California Healthcare Network (2 days).

·         August 16 …Hilliard Lyons, Louisville, KY, Conflict Resolution for Managers (4 hr).

·         August 21 … Anaheim, CA, 15th Annual Federal Dispute Resolution Conference pre-conference training (1 day).

·         August 30 … Hilliard Lyons, Conflict Resolution for Managers (4 hr).

·         September 6 …San Diego, CA. Receiver Distinguished Trainer-Master Mediator Award from VA Southern California healthcare network and addressed their annual meeting of mediators (2 hr).

·         September 8 … Kentucky Bar Association Law Update 2000, Bowling Green (1 hr).

·         September 13-14 … Syracuse, NY, upstate New York VA healthcare network, advanced mediator skills training (2.5 days).

·         September 18 … Hilliard Lyons, Conflict Resolution for Managers (4 hr)

·         September 19-22 … Federal ADR Council, Inc., Louisville, KY, Basic Mediation Skills Training (4 days).

·         September 27 … Ashland, KY, Kentucky Bar Association Law Update (1 hr).

·         October 3 … Jackson, MS, group facilitation for medical center.

·         October 10-11 … Santa Barbara, CA, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service first task force meeting for credentialing of mediators for internal roster within public and private sector.

·         October 17 … Lexington, KY, Kentucky Bar Association Law Update (1 hr).

·         October 27 … Prestonsburg, KY, KBA Law Update (1 hr).

·         October 31 … Hilliard Lyons, Louisville, KY (4 hr).

·         November 1 … St. Louis. MO, Veterans Benefits Administration (1 day) listening and communication training for decision review officers.

·         November 7 … Hilliard Lyons, Louisville, KY (4 hr).

·         November 9, … ADR in the Federal Courts, Lorman Seminars, Louisville, KY (2 hr).

·         December 5 … Kentucky Bar Association, Covington, KY (1hr).  

 

 


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