After many years as a trial lawyer, John is now a full-time neutral mediating cases throughout Southern California. In conjunction with his mediation practice, John frequently lectures at seminars and law schools, training both lawyers and other mediators in effective negotiation strategies to be used in mediations. He is an adjunct faculty member at Pepperdine Strauss Institute of Dispute Resolution and at the High Conflict Institute, through which he teaches seminars on working with high conflict personalities.
Mr. Edwards is often engaged to mediate the most challenging matters in which the legal issues are not driving the dispute, but the personalities are the issue. Lawyers are often frustrated because their usually persuasive legal skills are often ineffective with high conflict people. John has had years of training and experience and has become known for achieving results when legal analysis and vigorous advocacy have failed to achieve settlement.