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2-4. Mediators


(a)  Panel.  The Clerk’s Office will maintain a panel of mediators serving the court’s ADR mediation programs.  Mediators will be selected from time to time by the court from applications submitted by lawyers willing to serve or by other persons as set forth below.  The ADR Director and ADR Program Counsel may serve as mediators.  The panel of mediators must be available on the website for the court at http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov. 

 (b)  Qualifications and Training.  Each lawyer serving as a mediator in a court ADR program must be a member of the bar of this court or a member of the faculty of an accredited law school and successfully complete initial and periodic training as required by the court.  Additional mandatory minimum requirements for serving on the court’s panel include admission to the practice of law for at least 7 years and knowledge of civil litigation in federal court.  Mediators must possess strong mediation skills and the temperament and training to listen well, facilitate communication across party lines, and assist the parties with settlement negotiations.  Mediators who are not lawyers may also be selected to serve on the court’s panel of mediators if they have appropriate professional credentials in another discipline and are knowledgeable about civil litigation in federal court.  The court may modify, in individual circumstances for good cause, all of the requirements of this paragraph.

(c) Oath.  Persons serving as mediators in any of the Court’s ADR programs are required to take the oath or affirmation prescribed in 28 U.S.C. § 453. The mediator is required to email the executed copy of the oath to ADR Coordinator. 

(d)  Disqualification of Mediators.  No person may serve as a mediator in a case in a court ADR program in violation of the standards set forth in 28 U.S.C. §455.

(e)  Immunities.  All persons serving as mediators in any of the Court’s ADR programs are performing quasi-judicial functions and are entitled to the immunities and protections that the law accords to persons serving in such a capacity.


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