Conversation about Constellations in the Brazilian judiciary system.
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Mediator & constellator, ViaConcordia
Gabriela Assmar is a lawyer, mediator, constellator, Ombudsman and Consulting Board member, with 30 years of experience resolving complex conflicts in Brazil and abroad, in quite different areas suach as corporate, family, criminal and community conflicts with the Court System and...
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Thursday March 4, 2021 11:00am - 12:30pm CET
Room 6
Organizational
- about Gabriela Assmar has 20 years of mediation experience and has been a full-time<br>mediator for the past 11 years. She started her career in 1992 as a transaction<br>lawyer, both in-house and as outside counsel. She has been head of legal<br>departments, public affairs director and ombudsman at multinationals and has been<br>responsible for multidisciplinary teams designing business strategies in<br>telecommunications, investment banking, insurance and industrial sectors.<br>She specialized in mediation in New York, from 1999, during an LLM at New York<br>University and work in a New York law firm. She is a recognized pioneer and<br>developer of the mediation market in Brazil, and has served as a mediator in<br>commercial, corporate, multi-stakeholder (social and environmental), family, criminal<br>and community conflicts with the Rio de Janeiro court system and in private practice.<br>She lectures and teaches mediation at numerous institutions in Brazil, such as The<br>State University in Rio de Janeiro, The Federal University in Rio de Janeiro,<br>Fundação Getúlio Vargas, the Bar Association School of Law and in-company<br>trainings. She is a mediation instructor for the National Council of Justice. She was<br>one of the founders of the mediation commission of the Rio de Janeiro State Bar, for<br>which she won the Innovare Award 2009, given by the Supreme Court for<br>innovations in the legal arena. She has been involved in the discussions regarding<br>public policies on mediation within the private sector, the court system and the<br>legislative power. She was a co-author of the Brazilian Mediation Law (Law<br>13.140/2015). In 2011 Ms Assmar was a Weinstein Fellow at JAMS and she is a<br>member of the international panel of CPR mediators.<br>Ms Assmar has also developed mediation in Brazil through conflict resolution<br>programmes for children in schools located in the most violent areas of Rio de<br>Janeiro. She served as founder and executive director of the Brazilian Center for<br>Partners for Democratic Change International. She also founded the private<br>mediation services provider ProAcordo – Mediation of Business Conflicts.<br>Gabriela Assmar was the first Brazilian named by the prestigious publication<br>Who&#39;sWho Commercial Mediation. Her name can be found the editions 2012, 2013<br>and 2014.
