Mediation Skill & Judgment Honed By Decades of Legal Practice.

The firm’s panel of former judges and experienced trial attorneys brings wisdom gained in distinguished careers at the bench and bar to their mediation conferences. Many of our senior mediators have each led thousands of mediation conferences.

Attorney-Managed. Experienced. Innovative.

The Firm is managed by a seasoned legal team led by a Florida attorney who played a pioneering role in the evolution of trial court mediation over the past twenty-five years.

Providing Neutral Third-Party Intervention to Settle Major Pending Litigation Throughout Florida.

Mediation, Inc. is the oldest and largest group practice of attorney mediators in Florida, with more than 50 active attorney mediators. The Firm’s panel has conducted well over 150,000 mediation conferences in state and federal court cases.
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Donald C. Dowling



EDUCATION
Brown University, B.A. with Distinction, 1958
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1961
National Defender Fellow, University of Chicago Law School, 1964-65
University of Oxford, England, and the University of Oviedo, Spain, 1957
Gulbenkian Foundation Law Fellow, University of Lisbon, Portugal 1966

MEDIATION / NEGOTIATION
Mediator with Mediation, Inc., a group of former judges and experienced trial attorneys providing neutral third party intervention to settle major pending litigation throughout the United States.

AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Board general civil, family law and criminal trial and general law practice since 1961
AV Rated-Martindale Hubble


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Illinois, 1961; New York, 1969; Florida, 1979; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, Trial Bar 1983, Northern District of Illinois, 1961; U.S. Court of Appeals.

Second Circuit, 1969, Eleventh Circuit, 1983
U.S. Supreme Court, 1970.