NEWS - Press Release

JUNE 2, 2010

UPCOMING NYSTLA CLE COURSE FEATURING NAM HEARING OFFICER SHELLEY ROSSOFF OLSEN, ESQ.

NAM Hearing Officer, Shelley Rossoff Olsen, Esq. will serve on a distinguished panel presenting a three-hour CLE Seminar on "Mediation and Arbitration - How to increase your clients' settlements by successful Mediation and Arbitration techniques." The course is being sponsored by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) and will be held at their headquarters: 132 Nassau Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY.

Other panel members include Robert L. Conason, Esq. Senior Partner of Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz; Hon. Betty Weinberg Ellerin, former Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (First Department); Hon. Douglas E. McKeon, presiding Justice of the Appellate Term, First Department; and Bernard Londin, Esq., Senior Court Representative at the Office of the New York City Comptroller.

Ms. Olsen is a full-time Mediator and Arbitrator with NAM and mediates and arbitrates cases throughout the NY Metro Region. In addition to the ADR services that she provides, she often is asked to participate in various speaking engagements and CLE seminars. Her expertise covers a wide-range of legal issues including, but not limited to, personal injury, labor law, medical malpractice, employment, construction, and complex commercial cases.

ABOUT NYSTLA
For over 55 years, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association has worked to protect New York's civil justice system, fighting against legislative initiatives that threaten to limit the rights of injured consumers. Their mission is: "To promote a safer and healthier society, to assure access to the civil justice system by those who are wrongfully injured and to advance representation of the public by ethical, well-trained lawyers." The organization can be reached at:

www.nystla.org

ABOUT NAM
Headquartered in Garden City, New York, National Arbitration and Mediation, Inc. (NAM) is one of the nation's leading dispute resolution institutions, offering cost-effective alternatives to expensive and often time-consuming litigation. Founded in 1992, NAM has a nationwide panel of nearly 2,000 top-tier former judges and practicing specialists uniquely qualified to resolve legal matters in a private forum.

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