About the Attorney Mediator: Barry Shelton -
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Published on: 11/14/2007
Last Visited: 11/14/2007
Barry Shelton, J.D. is an Attorney Mediator.He has been an attorney in Massachusetts since 1985 with education, training and expertise in community, family and commercial mediation, family law, real estate law , consumer law, insurance, investment planning, income tax planning, employee benefits, retirement planning and estate planning.
Barry received basic mediation training from Metropolitan Mediation Services in Brookline.He received divorce mediation training from Divorce Mediation Training Associates of Newton.He also received further family mediation training from Massachusetts Families for Kids/Children's Services of Roxbury and from Metropolitan Mediation Services.
Barry is a mediator with Metropolitan Mediation Services, where he mediates community, family, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disputes.He is a mediator for the Boston Municipal Court where he mediates commercial cases, primarily personal injury and contract matters.He is also a mediator for the Massachusetts Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Referral Service, the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, and Mediation Works, Inc., Divorce Panel.
In addition, Barry is a mediation trainer and a teacher.He trains mediators for Metropolitan Mediation Services and he is a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Boston Graduate Program on Dispute Resolution, where he supervises mediator-interns in the courts.
Barry is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Family Law Division; the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution, New England Chapter; the Boston Bar Association/Boston Municipal Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Task Force; the Massachusetts Association of Mediation Programs and Practitioners; the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation; the Advisory Board at Metropolitan Mediation Services. and a member of the Dispute Resolution Forum, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School