Jerry Weiss was the first attorney in Northeast Ohio to devote his practice entirely to mediation.  As a neutral whose work has evolved over the past 27 years, he has drawn on his academic and practical experience and his years of work as a litigator, to accomplish a high success rate in the resolution of disputes.  Jerry has deep experience in the mediation of complex cases and he frequently lectures in the United States and abroad on topics involving disputes and people and institutions involved in them.  Jerry knows the problems facing litigants and their counsel and is acclaimed for his dealing with the negative impact of adjudicative processes and in helping disputants in moving forward.  He has mediated cases to successful conclusion that were otherwise thought to be intractable and unresolvable, both regionally and nationally. 

Jerry is the only mediator in Northeast Ohio to be inducted as a Distinguished Fellow in the peer-selected International Academy of Mediators (“IAM”), thought by many to be the world’s foremost cohort of distinguished neutrals.  He sits on the Board of Governors of that Academy.

• Syracuse University, degree:   BA
• Case Western Reserve University School of Law, degree:   JD

• Life Member of the Judicial Conference of the Eighth Judicial District.
• American Bar Association (Alternative Dispute Resolution Section)
• Ohio State Bar Association
• Federal Panel of the U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio (of Mediators and Evaluators)
• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (formerly Cleveland Bar Association)

• Criminal Law Committee Chair, 1982-1983
• Grievance Committee Chair, 1987-1988
• Board of Trustees, 1990-1994
• Judicial Selection Committee
• Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (Vice Chair, 2004-2005; Chair 2005-2006)

• ACR - Association for Conflict Resolution, 2002-present
• Distinguished Fellow, International Academy of Mediators (IAM), 2006-present
• MANO - Mediation Association of Northeast Ohio, 2002-present
• Ohio Mediation Association, 2007-present
• National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (2012-present)
• National Institute for Trial Advocacy
• Induction to the Society of Benchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, June 11, 2015. This peer nominated society represents over 240 exemplary professionals and is the highest honor bestowed at the Law School.

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