Mediation Services and ADR

Mr. Giordano has been trained as a mediator having completed mediation training through Pepperdine University's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

In addition, he has been a practicing litigator for over 28 years specializing in general and professional liability matters including health care law, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, personal injury, premises liability, fire loss, and products liability. He has also represented both employees and employers in employment related matters. Practice emphasis has been in litigating complex personal injury matters, with specific emphasis on medical negligence cases. He has been the lead counsel in over 60 state and federal civil jury trials and has represented both defendants and plaintiffs in litigated matters including in alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Mr. Giordano has effective communication skills and has been engaged to lecture to health care providers at accredited continuing education seminars in Massachusetts and around the country. He has also lectured to attorneys and insurance companies on trial related matters, civil procedure and electronic discovery; he has also served as Moderator of a panel discussion on Electronic Discovery in Massachusetts.

In addition to practicing in Massachusetts state and federal courts, Mr. Giordano has practiced before administrative agencies and judges including the Industrial Accident Board, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Massachusetts Board of Registration of Medicine, and the Board of Registration of Nursing.

Mr. Giordano is willing to make an effort to accommodate parties by travelling to a convenient location and is available for the following matters (among others):

• Mediation services for health care and other related issues; medical malpractice, general liability and personal injury matters, employment related matters.
  
  
• Arbitration hearings
  
  
• Counselling health care providers in appropriately responding to patient outcomes in instances where unexpected results have occurred.
  
  
• Advising businesses and institutions in appropriately responding to accidents and unexpected injurious events caused by business practices.

I believe that as a mediator, my role is to foster innovative solutions. I serve the participants, and they most often are fulfilling their own respective obligations to another. In order to be meaningful, solutions must be created through understanding and built on integrity and trust. To get to that point, I believe in thinking differently, challenging the bar, taking a little extra time and going one step further to understand the parties' perspective and their respective interests. By doing so, I can help each side to make more effective legal decisions. In the end, this approach can lead to closure and cost savings.

 
- Kevin C. Giordano