Oscar Franco

• Established personal lines of communication, supporting individual interest.
• Drafted documentation in order to move towards comprehensive conflict resolution.
• Led interviews and collected evidence to support either side and achieve favorable resolutions.
• Applied deep understanding relevant to the party´s conflict and possible solutions to reach agreements.
• Established calm environment for dispute settlement, utilizing conflict resolution techniques to reach agreements to contentious issues.
• Formulated focused and individualized resolutions aimed to peacefully settle disputes.
• Facilitated and implemented settlement agreements by proposing resolutions and supporting effective decision-making for involved parties.
• Reviewed and analyzed opposing sides of disputes to objectively assess situations from legal perspective.

• Conducted initial meetings to outline process, answer questions and set expectations for both parties.
• Formulated focused and individualized resolutions aimed to peacefully settle disputes.
• Used mediation techniques to facilitate communication between disputants, to further parties' understanding of different perspectives and to guide parties toward mutual agreement.
• Conducted individual meetings between parties, utilizing empathetic listening skills and documenting relevant details.
• Prepared agreements and settlement documentation for each interested party to sign and complete.

• Developed strategies to resolve cases in client's best interest.
• Worked with management and staff to resolve pre-litigation disputes.
• Resolved post-judgment litigation settlements and default judgment orders in favor of clients.

Attorney at law graduated at Universidad Santa Maria, in Caracas, Venezuela (1980). Practiced international commercial law in Venezuela until 2002

Master of Science, Comparative Pathology,( Equine Reproduction) University of California , Davis USA 1971

Practiced equine (thoroughbred) veterinary medicine in Lexington, Kentucky, USA as well as in Venezuela from 1971 until 1980.

Mediator certified by the Florida Supreme Court of Justice in the civil area (1998).

Family Mediator certified by the Florida Supreme Court of Justice (2006) Trained as mediator of business disputes, international child abductions, Cross Borders Child Abduction Mediation (Hague and non-Hague convention), Real Estate Foreclosure in Florida.

Primary County Mediation Trainer approved by the Conflict Resolution Center, Florida

Contractor County and Family Mediator by the Mediation and Arbitration Department, Broward County Court, Florida, since 2005.

Honors and organizations

• Appointed by the President of the Florida Supreme Court, as a member of the Advisory Supreme Court Committee on ADR Rules and Policy. (2013-2022)

Member of the Mediator Qualifications & Discipline Review Board. from 2011 to this date.

Past Member of the Board of Directors of the South Florida Association of Mediators and Arbitrators, (2006-2009)

Past Member of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators.(2009-2010)

Former Executive Director of the Venezuelan American Chamber, Florida. (2004-2006)