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Ms. Peterson is a sought-after speaker for continuing legal education classes on mediation tactics and strategies, mediation ethics, implicit bias, LGBT issues in mediation, and avoiding grievances. For discussions of mediation tactics and strategies, Ms. Peterson takes her audiences beyond “Getting to Yes” and into the impacts of emotions, cognitive biases, framing effects, prospect theory, and loss aversion on party behaviors. As we move more into an online world, she has expanded the discussions to include the impacts of remote connection and emotional distancing.
Implicit bias has been a critical issue and area of discussion for legal professionals and the courts as awareness of the impact of bias is becoming more fully understood. In her approach to teaching, Ms. Peterson focuses on the unique commonalities of culture, showing through analogies how unconscious factors can impact every day decision making.
Recent engagements:
- Implicit Bias for Attorneys, October 2020
- Bexar County Women Attorney Association
- Acts of Allyship, August 2020
- Bexar County Women Attorney Association
- Implicit Bias: Ethics for Mediators, July 2020
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
- LGBTQIA Issues in Mediation, July 2020
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
- What’s Next: A Series on adaptive law during COVID, May 2020
- Implicit Bias: Addressing and Correcting, February 2020
- Muslim Bar Association of Houston
- Handling Difficult Clients, February 2020
- Houston Bar Association’s Annual CLE Day
- Tales from the Crypt: Avoiding the Grievance Process, November 2019
- Galveston Bar Association
- When to Mediate and How to Prepare, August 2019
- Houston Young Lawyers Association (HYLA)
- Ethics in Mediation, July 2019
- Texas State Bar Summer Conference
- LGBT Issues in Mediation, May 2019
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
- Implicit Bias in Mediation, May 2019
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
- When to Pull the Trigger on Mediation, May 2019
- The Woodlands Bar
- Mexican American Bar Association of Houston
- Prompt and Cost-Effective Resolution of Your Case, April 2019
- Houston Bar Association
- Advanced ADR 2019 – Texas Bar CLE, January 2019
- Panel Speaker on Bias in Mediation
- When to Pull the Trigger on Mediation, November 2019
- Houston Lawyer’s Association
- Ethical Issues in Mediating Protective Orders, November 2016
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
- Mediation with LGBT Clients, November 2016
- Harris County Dispute Resolution Center
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center
- Ethical Issues in Civil Mediation, 2016
- Montgomery County Dispute Resolution Center