About Mediation

Each mediation is tailored to the needs of those involved in the process. In mediation, each person has the opportunity to talk about what is important. The mediator encourages both active participation in the process and in determining the outcome. 

Mediation of employment disputes or workplace conflict requires sensitivity to the needs and goals of all involved. In addition, knowledge of the laws and regulations governing the workplace is critical in ensuring that solutions are workable and durable.

Advantages

Mediation is routinely used for many types of conflict in the workplace, as well as for business and interpersonal issues, whether or not they involve lawyers or courts. In the workplace, mediation may be used to explore options to resolve grievances, facilitate difficult discussions and resolve issues within or between teams, handle conflict between team members, and assist in resolving conflict between individual contributors and leaders, for example.

Features of Mediation

• Private
• Choice of neutral mediator
• Logistics controlled by the parties - scheduling at participants' convenience
• Flexible and creative outcomes possible - beyond what is available through litigation
• Confidential to the extent permitted by law and agreed to by contract
• Cost-effective
• Timely and time efficient

Issues

Areas of Practice

• Business, Including Family Businesses and Dissolution
• Contracts
• Eldercare and Elder Decision Making
• Employment | Workplace
  • Discrimination (disabilities, race, gender, age)
  • Sexual harassment
  • Americans With Disabilities Act
    
• Family
  • Family business
  • Inheritance
  • Eldercare
  • Adult sibling 
• Health Care
• Partnership issues
• Probate
• Securities | Financial

Experience​

Ericka Gray has been a mediator since 1985 and has mediated more than 5,000 disputes with the standard more than 90% settlement rate enjoyed by most mediators who are in private practice. Ericka has received more than 500 hours of training in basic and advanced mediation skills, negotiation, and related topics. She is an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution for both Workplace and Family Mediation. Ericka serves as a mediator for a number of private organizations and government agencies as well as maintaining her private practice.  She is on the faculty of Boston College Law School, Suffolk University Law School, and Northwestern University, where she teaches mediation and other topics in dispute resolution. She has also provided training to thousands of aspiring mediators and dispute resolution professionals nationally and internationally. Please see complete bio for more information.