A procedure in which a third-party neutral provides an assessment of the positions of the parties. In a neutral evaluation process, lawyers and/or parties present summaries of the facts, evidence and legal principles applicable to their cases to a single neutral or a panel of neutral evaluators who then provide (s) an assessment of the strengths, weaknesses and potential value of the case to all sides. By agreement of the parties or by applicable law, such evaluations are usually non-binding and offered to facilitate settlement.
She practices exclusively as a mediator and has done more than 250 mediations in the past with a success rate of about 80% with a focus on pre-litigation mediation
Enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in 1968 for almost 49 years now, her law practice primarily included litigations in the Bombay High Court, City Civil Court and Family Court
She has held various honorary posts in the past being:
(a) A co-ordinator and faculty member at the Bombay University for the post graduate certificate course in Alternative Dispute Resolution conducted jointly by the Hon’ble Bombay High Court and Bombay University
(b) An ADR co-ordinator for the Bombay City Civil and Sessions Court
(c) A Mediator in several mediations referred to by the Supreme Court, Bombay High Court, City Civil and Sessions Court and Family Court;
(d) As a resource person for the Bombay High Court
Mumbai
2004
Mediation and Advanced Mediation Course by the Bombay High Court
2008
Certified as ADR Group Mediator Trainer by British Council, ADR Group UK and India Centre for Mediation and Dispute Resolution
English, Gujurati, Hindi and Marathi
30 years of experience as an Advocate.
Experties in Business & Corporate Laws, skilled in resolving family disputes, Consumer, Banking as well as Labour matters. 8 years of exp. as successful Trained Mediator.Resource for Referral Judges’ Mediation awareness program.
Worked as an Arbitrator for multi state co operative societies.
Senior Panel Lawyer for BSNL Ahmednagar & Bajaj Finance Ltd.
Trained Arbitrator from ICADR.
Ahmednagar, Pune, Aurangabad, Satara
Trained Mediator by Mumbai High Court in January 2009 with refresher training in March 2017.
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati.
1) A Law practitioner in Civil side for 37 years, dealing with Commercial, Property, and Real Estate matters in High Court, City Civil Court, Small Causes Court, Co-operative Courts, Tribunals, and quasi-judicial authorities.
2) Area of expertise is Trials, cross-examination of the witnesses and Election Petitions.
3) The present responsibilities are appearance in Court for trials and arguments for interim proceedings and Writ Petitions in support of my clients in adjudicatory processes.
4) Instrumental in holding a first Lok Adalat (Alternate Dispute Redressal) permitted by Maharashtra Government in 1994 at Borivali under NGO Rotary International. There were 15 Panels of Mediators formed and 360 matters resolved, out of about 500 pre and post litigation matters in two days.
5) Interested in Legal Awareness Programmes and Alternate Dispute Redressal activities.
6) A Faculty Member for ADR Certificate Course conducted by Bombay University and High Court. A Member of Maharashtra Legal Aid Committee, addressed more than 100 public meetings on Legal Awareness Programmes. Addressed Advocates at Kolhapur, Ahmednagar, Daman through Bombay High Court sponsored seminars on ADR. The role-plays performed by the local Advocates in those seminars under my guidance gave a great boost to the mediation movement. Held seminars in other professional groups for mediation process. Addressed Mediation Awareness Programmes in Courts in Mumbai and Daman. Faculty for Judges Training for Mediation at Judicial Academy at Uttan. Anchorperson of Doordarshan and ETV Channel on Programs on Law.
7) A legal column writer in Corporate India Magazine, Mumbai Samachar, Mid-Day Gujarati and Sandesh Newspaper.
8) Attached to Legal Aid Institutions like Public Complaint Centre in Mumbai for Minority Community.
Mumbai
Trained by USIS in Mediation by Mr. Hiran Chodom, Professor, Columbia University, New York.
The High Court and Legal Aid Department in High Court and City Civil Court Mediation Cell sent post litigation matters for mediation and I mediated private pre and post litigation mediation matters.
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati.
Professional Experience
Total Experience: 1996 to date
Advocate – High Court of Bombay
1) Practising Advocate and Counsel in Mumbai.
2) Practised in the chambers of Senior Counsel Late Mr. K.K.Singhvi, and Senior Counsel Ms Rajani Iyer.
3) Independently handled over 250 cases, primarily in Writ Jurisdiction.
Mediation :
1) Accredited as Mediator, High Court of Bombay, and City and Civil Sessions Court of Bombay since 2012
2) Executive Panel member of Indian Merchant Chambers ‘Mediation and Conciliation Committee’.
3) Panel Member ( Mediation) in IIAC, Mumbai ( IMC International ADR Centre)
4) Speaker on ‘Mediation in Multicultural World’ at the ‘Asia Pacific Mediation Forum Conference’ , Manila in 2014.
5) Delegate at ‘Mediation Beyond Borders International’ Congress at Romania, April 2015.
6) Co-Trainer for ICADR- Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Legal Service Authorities on ‘Refresher course for Mediators’, in Hyderabad 2015.
7) Co Trainer at KC Law College, Mumbai in ADR practices, 2016, 2017.
8) Trainer for ‘Mediation training for Civil Society ‘ under the Mediation Project at Rajasthan , Dec 2016
9) Trainer , 6 day Certificate Course In Mediation Skills at Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai , Dec 2016
10) Invitee Expert at Lex Infinitum , ( Mediation Competition) , V.M Salgaokar College of Law, Goa – Jan 2017.
Certifications :
1) IICA Certificate Course on Mediation and Negotiation (40 hours), Mumbai 2016
2) ‘Conflict Analysis’, by USIP, 2011.
3) ‘Community-Industry Dispute Resolution’, by Meta Culture, 2012
Mumbai
M.A (Tel Aviv University) ( 1 year), In Conflict Resolution and Mediation
IICA ( Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs) 7 day certificate course in Mediation
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati.
Rajiv Naik practices as a Counsel based in Mumbai on the original side of the Bombay High Court in the Chambers of Mr. Ketan Parikh, Senior Advocate. His focus is largely on commercial arbitrations, though he also appears in various courts and tribunals.
In addition to his practical work experience, Rajiv has also attended several conferences and workshops on mediation, arbitration and related subjects including completing 40 hour training in mediation with IICA; attending the ICCA Congresses in Miami and Singapore; speaking at the GNLU Seminar on International Arbitration Law at the Gandhinagar National Law University; and participating as an Associate Speaker at the 2015 and 2016 Annual 7-day Course in Arbitration conducted by the Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC), Mumbai. He has also attended the summer program in private international law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2011 where he was one of nine candidates (out of around 350 who attended) to be selected at the end of a three week selection process to write the examination for the prestigious Diploma awarded by the Academy.
Rajiv also has a keen interest, and is regularly involved, in moot court competitions as a way of giving back to the next generation of lawyers.
Mumbai
August, 2017 – Forty Hour Mediation Training Programme conducted by Mr. Stefano Cardinale under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.
English (proficient), Kannada (native), Hindi (business-level), French (basic; completed A2 (A and B) level from Alliance Française de Delhi in addition to junior college course).
Prathamesh D Popatis a lawyer based in Mumbai. After interning with Mulla & Mulla And Craigie, Blunt & Caroe, Solicitors, he started his practice as a Counsel at the Bombay High Court in the Chambers of now Senior Counsel Aspandiar P Chinoy.
After attending a mediation conference in 1998 jointly organised by the governments of India and Australia, Prathamesh attended a few trainings in India before proceeding for further trainings to Europe, US and Australia in and around 2003.
Prathamesh is a LEADR (now Resolution Institute, Australia) Accredited Mediator. He is also a Certified Mediator of IMI (International Mediation Institute, The Hague).
Prathamesh brings to the mediation table his learnings from trainings attended across several continents conducted under the aegis of reputed institutions like ABA, ACR, CEU, CIArb, CPR, GCLC, Harvard, IACP, ICC, JAMS, MWI, NYPeace, Pepperdine and SMC.
Prathamesh continues to hone and add to his skill-sets, as also expand and deepen his understanding of the collaborative cultures and practices in different jurisdictions, by regularly attending conferences and workshops across the globe.
Once in a while, Prathamesh pens down his reflections on events and developments in the mediation field on his blog mumbaimediators.com and his website prachi.me
Back home,Prathamesh is on several ADR-related panels. He often conducts introductory, basic and advanced mediation workshops, on invitation, for judicial institutes, law colleges, chambers of commerce, corporate entities and professional bodies. He carries on his mediation practice in the name of his proprietary concern, Prachi Mediation Chambers.
Mumbai
Several BMTs (Basic Mediation Trainings) of 20 hours, 32 hours and 40 hours (last in 2016);Several Advanced and Micro-Skills’ trainings
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kutchi and Marathi.
Bhakti Popat interned in the year 1994 and, thereafter on becoming qualified, worked as a Solicitor with M/s Wadia Ghandy & Co., a century-old law firm head-quartered in Mumbai.
Bhakti started taking keen interest and trainings in mediation from the year 2005, when she attended the Advisor’s training workshop organised by LEADR (now Resolution Institute). Since then, she has attended several mediation trainings and activities from time to time.
To further her interests in observing the human mind, Bhakti did her Masters in Psychology and a Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Counselling Psychology.
Presently, Bhakti is practicing in Mumbai as an independent Solicitor, Mediator and Advocate-on-Record.
Bhakti’s key areas of law practice are in the fields of Real Estate, Banking, Commercial Contracts, Corporate law, Co-operative Societies, Dispute Adjudication & Resolution, Employment, Trusts, Testamentary, Estate Planning and Personal laws.
Bhakti has a deep interest in Psychology, Art & Design, the Performing Arts as well as Yoga and Meditation, the last of which she practices regularly.
Mumbai, India
2005: Resident Workshop, Program for Advisers and Participants in Mediation conducted in Mumbai by LEADR (Resolution Institute), Sydney, Australia;
2007: Mediator’s Training Workshop held at Don Bosco High School, Mumbai conducted by ISKCON Resolve in association with Prafulta, Don Bosco School, Matunga, Mumbai;
2013: 16 hours Course, Introduction to Mediation conducted by Prathamesh D Popat, a LEADR accredited Mediator;
2016: 6 full days Intensive Training Workshop for Mediators organised by Indian Merchants’ Chamber, Mumbai with lead trainer Prathamesh D Popat;
2017: 40 hour Professional Mediation Training Program under lead trainer Bruce Edwards (JAMS) conducted by CAMP, Bengaluru.
English, Gujarati, Kutchi, Hindi and Marathi
I started my law practice in Kolhapur in the year 1991. I have been a practicing Lawyer in Trial Court and District Courts in Kolhapur, Satara, Sangli, Pune etc. I am mainly a Civil and Corporate Lawyer. However, I do handle variety of work even in the area of Criminal Law & Consumer Law. I have also been actively associated as visiting Law Professor at various Law colleges and Universities in the Country.
Districts of Kolhapur, Pune, Satara, Sangli.
Forty Hours Training by Legal Services Authority- Attended and addressed Several Workshops, Conferences of Lawyers, Judges, Law Students. Recognised as trainer in Mediation by High Court, Mumbai.
English, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati.
Attached to the Chambers of Ketan D. Parikh (Senior Advocate), he is an Advocate with experience and focus on ‘Dispute Resolution’ and represents parties in commercial and civil disputes as Counsel.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (BCom) and Law (LLB) and has been admitted to practice in 2010 with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law (LLM - Arbitration and Dispute Resolution) from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and has been admitted as ‘Fellow’ and as ‘Faculty’ with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). He has undergone the basic 40 hours training in Mediation and is a steering committee member of the Young MCIA in Mumbai.
His article (co-author) on mediation featured in the Hong Kong Law Journal (HKLJ) in 2016. He has interned with the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and has also provided research support to various international arbitration practitioners from time to time.
Mumbai
40-hour training at the University of Hong Kong by the Accord Group, Australia
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujurati
practicing advocate in civil mattrs since October 1977,conducted many trials, practicing in city civil court at Mumbai and also Dindoshi court at goregaon, conducted matters in arbitration ,participated in work shop ,all kinds of civil matters are handle d and at present also conducting and handling matters,I was junior of Shri Dinesh gandhy,assisted him in various matters,now practicing independentely.
City civil court at main branch and dindoshi court at goregaon,Borivali division
course of ADR from Mumbai university,in the year 2004,there after started working as mediator ,matters assigned as mediator from both the court and also from hon'ble high Court ,conducted various programmes at Dindoshi court and also at family court, written a book on mediation by name edition at different look,' earlier and also at present working as mediator in all types of matter including anticipatory bail ,domestic violence and dowry at Dindoshi court,
English, Hindi, Gujarati,and to some extent Marathi also
Vasanthi practices as an advocate and a mediator.
Since her enrolment as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in 1966, her law practice primarily included litigations in the Bombay High Court, City Civil Court and Family Court
Mumbai
2004-05 - Mediation and Advanced Mediation Course conducted by the Bombay High Court.
Dec 2007: 40 Hours Basic Mediators Training Workshop Conducted by IMC
English, Gujurati, Hindi and Marathi
A third Generation Lawyer from Government Law College ( GLC ), Mumbai. Joined Legal Practice on 7th April, 1981. Worked with the Chambers of Adv. V.L.Shah & Madanlal N.Shah.
Practising independently since the year 1993. Handled property, commercial, Family & Consumer disputes matters at Small Causes Court, City Civil Court, Family Court, Consumer Forum, Consumer State Commission & High Court.
Mumbai
Training undergone during P.G.C.C. Course in Alternate Disputes Resolution Systems of Mumbai University in the year 2004.
40 Hours Mediator’s Training undergone at Bombay High Court in 2011.
40 Hours Training undergone under the Training Programme of Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs in 2016. Attending various short Training Programmes, Workshops, Seminars & Lectures as part of CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMME.
English, Gujurati, Hindi and Marathi
Practicing as an advocate since 1990. Dealing mostly in commercial litigation.
Suits on commercial Causes: suits based on commercial transactions and summary suits under Order XXXVII of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. The suits are based on commercial negotiable documents, written contracts and agreements and for goods sold and delivered etc.
Insolvency Matters, Testamentary Matters, Property Suits, Writ Petitions, Writ Petitions, Proceedings under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
201, Camy House, 3 Dhus Wadi, Dhobi Talao, Marine Lines ( E ), Mumbai-2.
Degree in alternate dispute resolution (ADR) by department of law university of Bombay conducted from March 2005 to August 2005.
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujurati
Gitanjali graduated in law from Government Law College, Mumbai. Interned with M/s Gagrat&Co. After her Master in Law, Mumbai University, She registered for PhD. in Environmental law and submitted her thesis recently. She was a visiting faculty with the Department of Law, Mumbai University for over a decade in Commercial law, Constitutional law, Environmental law and Human Rights to the students pursuing LLM. Gitanjali trained as a counsel in chambers of Senior Counsel Chander Uday Singh. She was notified by the State Government as an Assistant Government Pleader on the Original side, High Court, Mumbai. Presently, Gitanjali is practicing in Mumbai as an independent Counsel in the Bombay High Court, an Arbitrator and as a Mediator. She is appointed as an arbitrator in several cases and now also as mediator by the High court, Mumbai. She is an empanelled Mediator, Main Mediation Centre, and Bombay High Court. She is on the executive committee of the Mediation Committee of the Indian Merchants Chamber.
Key Areas of practice:
Gitanjali’s key areas of law practice are in the fields of Real Estate, Banking, Commercial Contracts, Corporate law, Co-operative Societies, Dispute Adjudication & Resolution, Employment, Trusts, Testamentary, Estate Planning and Personal laws.
Chamber: 16A, 2nd Floor, Rehman Building, Veer Nariman Road, Fort, Mumbai- 400101
2016: IICA ( Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs) 7 day certificate course in Mediation
2017: 40 hours Professional Mediation Training Program under lead trainer Bruce Edwards (JAMS) conducted by CAMP, Bengaluru.
2017: One-day intensive workshop ‘The Great Legal Negotiator’ conducted by Claudia Wrinkler, LL.M.(Harvard)at CAMP.
May, 2019: 5 days Intensive-Training in Mediation and Conflict Resolution-Centre for Dispute Resolution, Santa Monica, California, by Kenneth Cloke
English, Hindi, Marathi
I secured my LL.B. degree in 2001 from ILS Law college, Pune University. I interned with Adv. Makarand Kulkarni while pursing my degree.
Post qualification I worked as a trainee in the legal department of Mercedes- Benz India Ltd.
I enrolled with the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa in 2002 post which I worked as a junior Advocate in a law firm M/s Vaze and Sakhadeo Associates. My work profile mainly included litigation in NI Act, Summary Suits, civil suits.
I have also worked with Adv. Ashutosh M. Kulkarni mainly on Appellate side of Bombay High Court and in matters before DRT and DRAT.
Subsequently I worked with M’s Dave & Girish and Co. as an Associate and then Senior Associate. My core area of work was litigation and I represented clients before different courts, judicial and quasi- judicial authorities
I have handled documentation work with respect to financial documentation, property documents etc. and was also involved in due diligence work for IPO and rights issue assignments.
In the course of my work with a NGO (Centre for Study of Social Change) and District Legal Service Authority, I got a chance to mediate between parties in resolving family disputes, land lord tenant disputes etc.
I have a good experience and strong background of litigation work and handling corporate, commercial, property and family disputes .
Mumbai
40 hours training in Mediation, KC Law college, Mumbai (2018)
English, Hindi, Marathi
Dipak is a Trade Mark Attorney, a Mediator, an Arbitrator for handling Indian and Asian domain name disputes, a Visiting Faculty, an Invited Speaker, a Certified Digital Evidence Analyst and a Techno-Legal Consultant. He is a published writer with international articles to his credit.
He has experience of more than 18 years in the legal field and had worked for several top-notch organisations: like, Hindustan Unilever Limited, National Stock Exchange IT Limited, Hutchison 3 Global Private Limited, Singhania & Co. LLP, International Legal Consultants etc. He has hands-on experience in Intellectual Property Management, Cyber Law and Information Security, Contract Management and Dispute Resolution.
He is specialized in Cyber Law and Information Security, Intellectual Property Management (including International IP registration), Contract Management, Dispute Resolution, including Litigation and Corporate matters. He is based in Mumbai and having his affiliates in major cities of India and abroad.
He is a former visiting faculty for Information Technology Law at Mumbai University; for Cyber law and Intellectual Property Law at Asian School of Cyber Laws; and for Business Law at Thakur Institute of Management Studies & Research.
He was associated with ICSI eLearning portal as Subject Matter Expert and Visiting Faculty for IP Management and other subjects.
Mumbai
40 hours training in Mediation organized by
(i) Indian Merchants' Chamber, Mumbai in collaboration with the Bombay High Court in May, 2013
(ii)Indian Merchants' Chamber, Mumbai in May, 2015
(iii) Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs.
English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
I have been in active practice since last more than twenty years, as Partners at Tijoriwala & Co.
I have successfully conducted and concluded several mediations by creating positive common ground between parties and adopting problem solving approach, leading to conflict resolution.
I have assisted in writing a book titled "Law & Practice of Conveyancing" by Mr. M. T. Tijoriwala.
Tijoriwala & Co. primarily does corporate practice, opinion work, documentation, litigation and NRI advisory work.
5. I have appeared in various Courts including the Supreme Court of India, in various important matters including constitutional challenges.
Tijoriwala & Co. having their Office at 72, 4th Floor, 4 Lakshmi Building, P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001.
Qualified Mediator, having completed the Post Graduate Course in Mediation of the University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Shri Dhirendra S. Parikh is a Senior Advocate practising in Civil Law in the High Court and Bombay City Civil Court at Bombay, since the last 68 years.
In the course of his practice, he has dealt with a large number of matters involving the Laws of Contracts and Torts, Law of Damages, Property Law , Law of Ownership Flats and Apartments, Corporate Law, Constitutional Law, Law of Succession and Inheritance, Hindu Law, Matrimonial Laws, Family Law, Service Law, etc.
He has conducted a large number of trials, and has developed his own way of non-aggressive cross-examination of witnesses.
He is interested in independent evaluation of the merits or demerits of litigating parties, as an integral part of the process of mediation.
Mumbai (City Civil Court and Bombay High Court)
Mediation and Advanced Mediation Course by the Bombay High Court.
Faculty member at the Bombay University for the post graduate certificate course in Alternative Dispute Resolution conducted jointly by the Hon’ble Bombay High Court and Bombay University.
English, Gujurati, Hindi, Marathi