Mediation Services & Procedure

Mr. Hearon primarily conducts mediation conferences throughout Florida, primarily in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties. Upon request, he has and will travel outside of Florida to conduct a mediation.

You may contact him via e-mail (bill@williamhearon.com), utilize the contact form through this Web Site or telephone his office to schedule a mediation. An online calendar will indicate presently available dates. In order to check for possible conflicts, you should be ready to provide the names of the parties, as well as the names of counsel. In certain cases, he may wish to schedule a pre-mediation conference call with counsel.

Mr. Hearon’s office will send a confirming letter and file the Notice of Mediation Conference once it has been provided with the style of the case and the names, adddresses and fax and telephone numbers of counsel. At that point, a date will be marked as “unavailable” on the calendar.

The parties may submit a Mediation Summary and attach any pleadings, filings or other documents necessary to explain or summarize a party’s position on some or all of the issues. A Mediation Summary, however, is not required. In lieu of a Mediation Summary, Mr. Hearon requests that the parties provide copies of the operative pleadings (Complaint, Answer and Affirmative Defenses, Counterclaim, if any, etc.), and/or any other documents and/or filings which frame the issues.

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