About Mediation

Mediation addresses the needs of those involved in the process. In mediation, each person has the opportunity to talk about what is important to them. The mediator encourages active participation in both the process and in determining options that inform the outcome.

​Mediation is routinely used for a wide range of disputes such as workplace, business, organizational, 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, and assist in resolving conflict between individual contributors and leaders, for example. In business and commercial cases, mediation can be used to resolve contract disputes, personal injury claims, business partner conflict, and much more.

Advantages

• Private
• Neutral mediator chosen by participants
• 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, include
  • Discrimination (disabilities, race, gender, age)
  • Sexual harassment
  • Americans With Disabilities Act
• Family
  • Family business
  • Inheritance
  • Eldercare
  • Adult sibling 
• Health Care
• ​Organizational
  
• Partnership issues
• Securities | Financial​

Experience​

ricka 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 or CV for more information.