Danette J. Ross Watson

Experience

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  Ross Legal Support Services

  Mar 1993 - now

  Legal Assistant

  Duties include: assisting attorneys and clients with correspondence; investigation, document preparation; research; filing at respective county courthouses; mediation services; administrative assistance; draft contracts and/or agreements; settlement negotiations; mediation; creditor assistance; credit repair; dispute letters; process service; resume preparation; attorney voucher/billing assistance; draft pleadings; client correspondence and requests; coordinate meetings and conference calls; organize and maintain client and administrative files; receive and transmit faxes; investigation with DC Superior Court’s Council on Child Abuse and Neglect: work with private clients, and attorneys: interview clients, potential clients and witnesses; case review; correspondence; record retrieval; crime scene and client environment investigation and other related assignments. Show less

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  Solomon's Way ADR Services, LLC

  Jan 1999 - now

  Executive Director/ADR Consultant

  Responsibilities include: Court-appointed ADR consultant/trainer/mediator for various Court programs in Prince George’s, Calvert, Montgomery and Baltimore Counties in Maryland and for the Child Welfare Program of the Department of Social Services for Prince George’s County; WV Supreme Court Certified Family Court mediator, USPS EEO Discrimination mediator/investigator; conduct trainings, workshops and presentations for various organizations regarding ADR process, procedures, rules, ethics, policies and procedures; facilitation; correspondence; memorandum preparation; research; draft agreements; coordinate meetings and conference calls; organize and maintain client and administrative files; receive and transmit faxes; conduct investigative interviews for potential clients and attorneys for case evaluation and other related duties. Show less

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  Solomons Way ADR Services, LLC

  Jan 1999 - now

  Over 20 years as a family mediator for various jurisdictions for courts in TX, MD & WV; more than 12 years experience as an EEO REDRESS mediator for the USPS, SSA & VA working in the Mid-Atlantic region and TX. I continue to work with private clients providing divorce, personal injury, and family mediation/training/facilitation services. Solomon's Way provides parties with an alternative to combative legal proceedings by using mediation to create agreements for reconciliation, separation, family conflicts, settlement negotiations, divorce, workplace, EEO, employment and mental health care. Solomon's Way seeks to foster relationship building, collaborative decision-making and peaceful interaction through competent and confidential mediation and training services.

  • Mediator/Trainer/ADR Consultant

    Jan 1999 - now

  • Executive Director/ADR Consultant

    Jan 1999 - now
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  Association for Conflict Resolution

  Oct 2001 - Feb 2003

  Membership Development Associate for Chapters and Family Mediation

  Responsibilities included: Working directly with two divisions of a national association: Assisted Family Section with policy and procedures for over 2500 family mediation practitioners while working with ACR Chapter network of over 40 chapters and international affiliates. Performed administrative tasks such as: writing correspondence, memorandum preparation, maintained Web Site information, research, project coordination, coordinate meetings and conference calls, staffed conferences, presented at conferences for other organizations, organize and maintain client and administrative files, receive and transmit faxes, respond to various inquiries via telephone and email. Show less

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  ADR Vantage, Inc.

  Apr 2019 - now

  Contractor

  Contractor providing ADR consulting and professional mediation services from time to time to, or on behalf of, ADR VANTAGE that will be agreed on and defined in writing by a statement of work for various federal agencies.

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  West Texas Community Mediation Center

  Oct 2019 - now

  Executive Director

  Responsible for the day-to-day operations, oversight and administration of programs and strategic plan of the organization. Other key duties include fundraising, marketing, and community outreach. The position reports directly to the Board of Advisors.

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  Texas Association of Mediators

  Feb 2022 - now

  President