| Kathleen M. Nichols
founded Kathleen Nichols Mediation Services in 1994 after a 15-year
career in law firm administration. After working for ten years in
Denver law firms (Holme, Roberts & Owen; White & Steele),
Kathleen spent five years as
the administrator of Stoel Rives 60-attorney Seattle office. During
her law firm career, Kathleen spent many hours helping to resolve
conflicts between and among attorneys, staff and supervisors. She also
witnessed the devastating results of the legal process on lives and
finances.
Believing
that mediation is a much better way to resolve most issues than the
traditional adversarial process, Kathleen started her new career in
mediation. Since 1994, she has mediated well over 1000 cases, including
numerous divorce/legal separations/parenting plans, civil court cases,
workplace disputes, and conflicts in families with aging parents. In
addition to her private practice, Kathleen volunteers with the King
County Dispute Resolution Center, the Skagit County Dispute Resolution
Center, the King County Inter-local Conflict Resolution Group, the
Federal Executive Board's Alternative Dispute Resolution Consortium,
and the City of Bellevue Neighborhood Mediation Program, training
mediators, mediating disputes, and mentoring other volunteer mediators.
Kathleen
received her B.A. degree in Sociology in 1982, and her Masters Degree
in Business Administration in 1989, both from the University of
Colorado. She has taken numerous trainings in the field, including
basic mediation training and advanced training divorce, business,
neighborhood, parent/teen, workplace/group, and elder mediation. Kathleen
is certified by the Washington Mediation Association as a mediator in
the areas of family/domestic relations, business and community, and
workplace/employment. She is currently serving as Past President of the
Board of Directors of the Washington Mediation Association.
Call Kathleen
Nichols Mediation Services at 425-688-3040 (Bellevue) or 1-877-688-3040 (toll free)
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