At the core of my community-based dispute resolution practice, I offer mediation, restorative justice and other restorative practices, and consensus building.
I regularly handle dispute resolution involving school, community, personal and court matters. After a thirty year, distinguished career in federal natural resources and environmental law, my experience also embraces commercial disputes and includes extensive group facilitation and consensus building for private and public policy matters. My dispute resolution training includes basic mediation training and extensive specialized training in restorative justice and community conferencing with nationally recognized instructors.
My mediation and restorative justice experience includes referrals from government or private organizations as well as the affected parties. I work often as a single mediator or facilitator but welcome joint arrangements depending on the number of participants and nature of the case presented. Given my pre-DealWork engineering, administrative law and government police experience, I am adept at handling complex, multi-issue technical matters. My experience includes in-person and, increasingly, remote work on various platforms (e.g., Zoom).
Aside from handling specific cases, as former co-coordinator of a Restorative Justice program for Fairfax County, Virginia, a very large and diverse county, I also offer a wide range of program consulting assistance:
- overall program design
- program outreach messaging for diverse audiences
- development of key restorative justice forms
- training and mentoring
- participation at professional conferences
- recordkeeping and confidentiality arrangements, etc.
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David T. Deal