The Mediation Group (TMG)

Brad Honoroff, J.D. (Harvard), has extensive experience as a mediator, teacher and consultant. He is a founding partner in The Mediation Group (TMG), a non-profit firm providing alternative dispute resolution services since 1985.

As a principal of TMG, Brad has mediated well over a thousand cases, including environmental, lead paint and other toxic torts, commercial, employment, sexual abuse and harassment, legal and medical malpractice, products liability, family business, professional and partnership dissolutions, family, health care, wrongful death, construction, intellectual property and personal injury disputes. He has particular expertise in mediating highly charged and complex, multi-party conflicts. He serves on the Massachusetts Superior Court mediation panels and the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution Environmental Panel as well as on several national panels.

Brad's consulting projects have included work with organizations in conflict as well as designing dispute resolution systems. He has helped design such systems for the courts in Massachusetts, public agencies and most recently for health care organizations. In addition, Brad has designed and conducted numerous trainings in conflict resolution and negotiation skills for public and private sector clients including university staffs, the teachers and school committee of a public school system, medical school administrators, attorneys, land use planners, health care personnel, and federal and state agency officials.

Brad also has many years of experience as a teacher. He was a tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts/Boston with the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution (1987 - 2002) and with the Law Center (1974 - 2002). In addition, he has been a regular guest lecturer and occasional instructor at Northeastern Law School since 1992.

He is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, formerly the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution, the Massachusetts Bar, and the U.S. District Court Bar. He received his B.A. from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1968 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1973.

His selected articles include "System Disorders: Trying to Build Resolution into Managed Care" (co-authored with Christopher Honeyman),Alternatives, October 2001, "Mediation, Structured Settlements and Equal Information" Journal of Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1995; and "Putting Mediation Skills to the Test" (co-authored with David Matz and David O'Connor), The Negotiation Journal, 1990.