Mr. Robert W Scott

Rob Scott is an attorney and mediator active in providing a broad range of dispute resolution services, training and consulting. His experience includes both the direct provision of services as well as the development and management of systems and programs and the supervision of mediation and conflict resolution service delivery in courts, organizations and agencies. Mr. Scott has been certified in general and family mediation by the Supreme Court of Virginia since 1993 and has served on a number of other mediation panels including those for the Virginia Fair Housing Office, the U.S. Department of Justice's Americans with Disabilities Act and the Prince William County Virginia Restorative Justice program. Mr. Scott served as the Executive Director of the Northern Virginia Mediation Service (NVMS) from 1994 to 2005. While there he developed or expanded a number of community and court-connected mediation programs as well as supervised the organization's delivery of mediation services to more than 1100 clients per year and the training of more than 900 participants in basic and advanced mediation and conflict resolution skills. Mr. Scott has conducted mediation and group problem solving sessions in a variety of areas including school community conflicts, neighborhood conflicts, family and divorce mediation, civil and family court matters, disability and employment issues and many types of community mediation cases. Working with George Mason University, he designed and supervised a community wide public facilitation to resolve issues involving immigrant day workers, community residents, police, local businesses and government. He also conducted an eight-month group mediation and consensus building process referred by the Board of Zoning Appeals between a church, neighbors and civic associations regarding the church's plan to develop adjacent properties. Mr. Scott has worked with a number of agencies to develop customized initial or continuing education training programs for the mediators in their ADR programs, including the Small Business Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Supreme Court of Arkansas and, many others. He has selected trainers, designed curricula and certificate programs and developed new and innovative workshops. This has been recognized through attendance by mediators from over 60 Federal agencies, 30 local government and educational institutions and 40 corporations and non-profits.

Mr. Scott graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law and began the practice of law in 1980. He later attended George Mason University where he received his master's degree in Conflict Management and Resolution in 1990. He has served in a number of field-development capacities including as a board member of the Virginia Association for Community Conflict Resolution and on the Community Mediation subcommittee of the Virginia Bar Association-Virginia State Bar Joint Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Mr. Scott is frequently asked to speak about or conduct training in mediation topics and has served as an adjunct instructor at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution. He has appeared twice on the WAMU public radio program Public Interest with Kojo Nnamdi to discuss mediation and he served as a panelist at the American Bar Association's 2001 Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference. He has been quoted frequently in the Washington Post and other newspapers about neighborhood disputes and conflict resolution in general.