Joan S. Morrow, Esquire

Joan S. Morrow, P.A.
301 Mill Stream Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185

Phone: 757-565-7219
Fax: 757-565-7216
Email: jsmorrowpa@msn.com
Other URL http://www.joanmorrow.com
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Since 1994, when she limited her professional practice to mediation, Joan Morrow has conducted over 1200 mediations, currently enjoying a very high resolution rate. The cases Joan has mediated have involved all aspects of employment law (including discrimination, sexual harassment, defamation, tortious interference and non-competes), as well as professional firm and business dissolutions, intellectual property, breach of contract, fraud and malpractice. She has mediated over 20 Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions. She has mediated or served as a court-appointed settlement master in numerous other multi-party and class action cases involving discrimination, healthcare contracts and consumer fraud. In 2001, Joan relocated to Williamsburg, Virginia and became an East Coast-based mediator, mediating in the Mid-Atlantic States and Washington, D.C. in person and nationally via videoconferencing.

Types of Cases Mediated
- Americans w/Disabilities Act - Business
- Civil (general) - Commercial
- Contracts - Discrimination
- Education - Employment
- Harassment - Health Care
- Insurance - Intellectual Property
- Labor Management - Medical
- Partnership Dissolutions - Professional Fees
- Professional Malpractice

MEMBER: 2004


Background
From 1978 to 1994, Joan Morrow was a litigation partner with the former Rider Bennett firm in Minneapolis, where her practice focused on employment law and litigation and insurance coverage disputes. Her initial act of professional peacemaking came when she was asked in 1985 to chair the Minnesota State Bar Association's Task Force on Tort Reform, a committee composed of diametrically opposed plaintiffs' and defense counsel. For forging consensus on difficult issues, Joan was awarded the Bar Association’s President’s Award for Professional Excellence. She was then appointed Chairman by the Minnesota Legislature of its Injury Compensation Study Commission. Her years of experience as a litigation lawyer showed Joan that mediation might be a superior means of resolving disputes. After mediating for four years as part of her litigation practice, Joan became a fulltime peacemaker in l994. Her skill at dealing with people with strongly held principles and heightened emotions, combined with her thorough preparation, have worked to make her a successful professional mediator.

Education/Training
A graduate of Cornell University and graduate cum laude of William Mitchell College of Law, Joan has completed both basic and advanced mediation training through the Center for Dispute Resolution in Boulder, Colorado, The Mediation Center in Minneapolis and U.S. Arbitration and Mediation.

Practicing in District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia


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