Mediator Resume

Mediation Concepts Ltd - Managing Director, Senior Counsel and ADR Professional & MD

Barrister, Arbitrator, Mediator

Senior Counsel/ Member, Bar of Ireland, 2022-Present; Managing Director/ Head of ADR, Mediation Concepts Limited, 2008-Present; Self Employed Barrister and Member, Bar of Ireland (Junior Counsel), 1996-2022.

Full time Barrister & ADR Professional in Ireland since 1996. Senior Counsel since 2022; Mediator since 2007; Extensive experience across several areas of civil and commercial practise including banking, probate, receiverships, shareholder disputes, land, commercial, partnerships, employment, carbon rights, equity, trusts, injunctions, family law and more.

2007 - to date. Business, Trusts, Employment, Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Trade Union and Corporate Disputes including Trade Union Recognition Disputes, Easements, Breach of Contract, Professional Negligence, Planning and Environment, Sporting Bodies and Community.

Minority Shareholder issues Partnership Disputes Succession and Probate Environment and Water Rights Trade Union Recognition involving Global Corporations Agri and Land, Title Related issues Community and Indigenous

Case by Case Plan depending on circumstances. Prefer to hold a Plenary Opening meeting but no hard and fast rule. Equal and fair time distribution and even handed management with engaging friendly professional West of Ireland approach. People before money and always hoping to find areas of common ground. Softly bringing to bear the weight of 30 years experience in litigation. I am experienced enough to know people sometimes need to express certain things and not all of those are to be taken literally. The Mediator provides a safe space and process to peel off the heavy wet cold years and layers of bandages of long running litigation wars. I know that not all communication in a mediation is verbal and having grown up and worked in agri business and farming before becoming a lawyer marked me out from the start as a natural neutral.

Proficient in MS Office, Newcode, Elict, Co-Pilot, Apple & PC Platforms

University of Galway (PhD candidate in Carbon Rights as Property - currently; LLM - 2010; LLB - 1994); Honourable Society of Kings Inns (Degree of Barrister at Law - 1994); University of Galway (BA, Legal Science and History - 1992).

Bar of Ireland / LSRA - Roll of Barristers CEDR Accredited Mediator Member Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Bar of Ireland - Kings Inns; Bar of England and Wales - Lincolns Inn; Bar of Northern Ireland; CEDR; Arbitration Ireland - Board Member; ADR Committee of Bar of Ireland - Chairperson; ICC - National Committee - Member; CIARB - Member; MFI; Current Member Asian/ European Arbitration Association. Former Member Southern California Mediation Association; Current Chair Bar of Ireland Arbitration & ADR Committee

Keynote Speaker Bar of Ireland Conference on Mediation June 2026, Dublin, Ireland. Presented a Paper on Carbon Farming and Carbon Removals in EU Law, UCC Conference - Law and the Environment 23rd April 2026 • Part Time Law lecturer – Administrative Law and Labour Law 1997/99 • Part Time Law lecturer – HR and Employment 1998/2000 • Part Time Lecturer in construction and contract law 1996/1998 • External Examiner charged with calling to Centres and ensuring compliance with minimum standards and reviewing candidate work and grades awarded. 1998/2002 • Ireland’s first Maritime Appeals Officer for Fishing ‘Penalty Points” Circa 2015 • Consistent Leading Practitioner of Mediation of numerous and varied disputes including Succession Law, Land, Probate, Employment, Business and Commercial, Minority Rights disputes, Community and Sporting disputes, Right of Way, Lakeshore and Easement disputes, Family Law, company disputes, Partnership disputes and miscellaneous civil law disputes. 2008 - 2025 • Guest / CPD Lecturer on topics including EU Charter on Fundamental Rights, Mediation, Online Mediation, Probate and Succession, • Lecturer in Law (Administrative Law and Employment Law) University College Galway, Law Faculty 1997/1999 • National College of Ireland, Law Lecturer & Employment Law, GMIT – 1997/1999 • External Examiner in Law – Business Law – National Council For Vocational Awards • Practising Accredited Mediator and Promoter of Mediation in Ireland -2008-2025 • Guest Lecturer at Numerous CPD events including in Brussels and Dublin and at University of Galway. • External Faculty Member At Kings Inns 2021-2024 • Member of ADR Committee of Bar of Ireland 2021-2024 - Chair 2025/26 • PhD Candidate at University of Galway -2024 Ongoing • Also Actively Practising as a Senior Counsel across several areas of Civil Law as well as Mediation and Arbitration • Land, Property and Environmental Law issues and miscellaneous civil law issues of interest • 2024/26 Researching Carbon Rights in the context of Property and Land Ownership – Supervised by Prof Padraic Kenna and Dr Rónán Kennedy

Any location in Ireland

Hourly Rate: $600.00 Daily Rate: Not provided Study Rate: $300.00/hr Cancellation: $5,000.00/Day Cancellation Period: 14 Days Comment: Free cancellation up to 14 days pre-mediation date. 100 percent charge if cancelled within 14 days.

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