Breaking All the Rules: How Mark Lemke Built a Successful Mediation Practice Without a Website on The Make Money Mediating Podcast with Susan Guthrie #402

Leading Dispute Resolution Professional, Susan Guthrie returns with a newly branded podcast designed to help you create and grow the practice of your dreams! For attorneys, mediators, collaborative professionals and more, it can be difficult to create a practice that fully embraces our values and interests while still meeting our financial and professionals needs and expectations.  This podcast will help you bridge that gap and reach your professional and personal goals!

This week Susan is joined by leading dispute resolution professional, Mark Lemke, Principal at Lemke Mediation in Los Angeles who shares his journey from insurance coverage counsel to becoming one of the most sought after mediators in his area.  In fact, it's hard to get on his calendar these days because he is so busy and Mark did it all without until recently, creating a website!  Listen in to hear exactly what steps Mark took along his journey to success and what he feels was critical in helping him to Make Money Mediating!

More about this week's guest, Mark Lemke:  Mark is a full-time mediator, with over 2,500 cases to date, and an excellent resolution rate.  Over my 20+ years as an attorney, he has served as Plaintiff's, Defense, and Insurance Coverage counsel, so is uniquely qualified to assess risk.  He earned my LL.M. at the prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.  He has served as a Temporary Judge and Judicial Settlement Officer. He has also served on mediation panels for the EEOC, DFEH, California Courts of Appeal, District Court, and County Bar. Mark is admitted to the American Arbitration Association for their Employment and Commercial mediation panels and is the Past-President of the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA).  In his free time, he enjoy SCUBA diving (certified Rescue Diver and Divemaster), and growing orchids.  

Mark on LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/marklemkeesq/

Email Mark:  mark@lemkemediation.com

 

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Meet Our Creator and Host: Susan Guthrie

Nationally recognized as one of the Top Family Law Attorneys and Mediators in the United States, Susan Guthrie has been at the forefront of divorce practice for more than 30 years. After more than 20 years as a name partner in a leading law firm in Connecticut followed by establishing her own boutique Family Law and Mediation practice in 2012, Susan has in the past two years transitioned into one of the leading family, collaborative and mediation trainers in the world and regularly works with and consults with divorce professionals and attorneys in growing and marketing their practice for a happier and healthier life.

In 2020 Susan partnered with mediation legend, Forrest “Woody” Mosten, to create the Mosten Guthrie Academy to provide cutting edge gold-standard trainings for attorneys, mediators and other professionals. The Academy has grown in two years from one 40-Hour training program to a comprehensive curriculum of basic, advanced and specialized trainings and consulting groups for a vast family of dedicated professionals.

As a leading dispute resolution professional, Susan is honored to have been recently elected as Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution and looks forward to serving as the Chair of the Section in the 2024-2025 Bar Year. She was also recently elected as the ABA Section Officer's Committee Vice-Chair Representative.

Susan is also an internationally renowned expert in online mediation and has been training colleagues and other professionals in the practical and ethical considerations of conducting their mediations online with her innovative programs and webinars for more than two years. To date, more than 25,000 dispute resolution professionals have benefited from her program and she has trained mediators in countries all around the world including programs for the American Bar Association (ABA), the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada (ADRIC), and the National Association of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN) among others.

Susan is the award-winning creator and host of one of the top 3 divorce podcasts in the world and one of the top 1.5% of all podcasts worldwide, The Divorce & Beyond Podcast with Susan Guthrie which has more than 5,000,000 listens to date.

 

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