CONFLICT RESOLUTION

INTERNATIONAL & CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES

Ms. Hummel mediates any case in which the conflict is impacted by culture. Due to her vast international experience with cultures all over the world and her style, which is both collaborative and realistic, her rate of successful settlement outcome is at about 92% in this arena. Ms. Hummel has also lived, traveled and worked on several continents. She has consulted throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and has developed a cross-cultural expertise that makes her the ideal individual to mediate disputes that involve multiple cultures or cultural issues. She was the Manager of International Client Relations for a well-known advertising firm in Milan, Italy, overseeing the business affairs of clients throughout Europe. She has collaborated with ministers to the governments of more than one hundred countries on several continents during the Global Summit of the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism in Pattaya, Thailand. She has negotiated and mediated for the Overseas Education Association in Europe, Cuba, and Iceland. While many mediators are competent to facilitate resolution in multiple arenas, only those with extensive knowledge of cultural differences can effectively resolve disputes which involve cultural issues or where the parties are individuals and corporations from diverse cultures. Lastly, she has developed a model of conflict resolution that is considered to be at the cutting edge of global peace-building and is one of the most important reasons that Ms. Hummel has been accepted into the Speaker & Specialist Program of the U.S. State Department.

DOMESTIC WORKPLACE ISSUES

Because of Ms. Hummel's strong reputation in the domestic employment law arena after trying and winning on behalf of 200,000 hearing-impaired citizens of the City of New York, the first class action under the Americans With Disabilities Act, Ms. Hummel continues to mediate, upon request, any case that involves a conflict in the workplace. Due to her vast experience in the employment law field of law and her style, which is both collaborative and realistic, her rate of successful settlement outcome is at about 94% in this arena. While practicing law, from 1988 - 2000, her national law practice focused on the arbitration, mediation, and litigation of employment law cases, including, but not limited to, cases involving the Civil Rights Act, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Her gender, race, and disability cases have been reported in the National Law Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.