Effective, confidential dispute resolution for businesses and individuals.
Combining legal acumen with insight and empathy to bring clarity and resolution to conflict.
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Julie Kowitz Margolies is an experienced mediator specializing in employment, civil rights, personal injury, and commercial disputes. With more than 20 years’ experience in litigation, policy negotiation, and conflict resolution, she skillfully combines her legal acumen with insight and empathy to ensure that each stakeholder’s underlying interests are surfaced and understood. By facilitating a structured and focused process, Ms. Kowitz Margolies enables parties to gain clarity on what is most important to them, so they can fully explore next steps, develop a mutually beneficial resolution of conflict, and forge a positive path forward. She is known for her careful legal analysis, quickly establishing rapport with parties and counsel, and bringing tenacity and creativity to resolving disputes.
“Mediation puts the focus on what’s truly important, opening the door to effective, clear communication.”
Julie Kowitz Margolies
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Services
Julie Kowitz Margolies provides a range of dispute resolution services for businesses and individuals, with a primary focus on employment: wrongful termination, severance benefits, failure to promote, harassment, discrimination (race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin, pregnancy), co-worker clashes, hostile work environment, and retaliation. She also mediates other civil rights matters, personal injury claims, and commercial disputes.
Ms. Kowitz Margolies works directly with businesses and individuals, as well as with represented parties and their counsel, depending on the nature and stage of the dispute and client needs.
Mediation After Legal Action Has Commenced
Ms. Kowitz Margolies mediates disputes at all stages of legal action. At any time from the filing of an administrative complaint or lawsuit to the point when a case is trial-ready, she helps parties reach resolution and avoid the additional expense, legal risk, and other destructive effects of ongoing adversarial action.
Whether direct negotiation has led to impasse or legal action is the first communication between the parties, Ms. Kowitz Margolies can help facilitate resolution by fundamentally shifting the negotiation dynamic. As a neutral third party, she offers a confidential process which allows parties to explore their concerns fully, communicate more effectively, reality-test alternatives to legal action, find areas of common interest, and pursue a mutually beneficial resolution of conflict.
Early, Confidential Resolution of Disputes
Before They Escalate
Where a business lacks the internal capacity to manage conflict effectively, or where existing internal processes have reached an impasse, confidential mediation with a neutral third-party can provide the key to resolution. Ms. Kowitz Margolies provides mediation services to businesses and individuals who seek to prevent conflict from disrupting the workplace, harming productivity, or escalating into disciplinary or legal action.
Whether in a situation where an employment relationship is strained but will continue, or where an existing relationship needs to end, Ms. Kowitz Margolies assists businesses and individuals with resolving a range of employment-related issues, including claims of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, failure to accommodate, failure to promote, and negotiation of severance agreements.
Conflict Coaching
Ms. Kowitz Margolies offers confidential, one-on-one coaching to individuals seeking to develop a proactive and effective response to workplace or interpersonal conflict. During the coaching process, Ms. Kowitz Margolies helps individuals gain insight into the sources of the conflict and their reaction to it, clarify goals and priorities, identify and explore potential options for managing the conflict, and create a concrete plan for next steps. Through this interactive and dynamic process, individuals will strengthen their communication skills and develop greater competency in conflict management.
MEDIATION OF LEGAL DISPUTES
EARLY CONFLICT INTERVENTION
CONFLICT COACHING
“There are many positive things I could say about Julie’s approach to mediation, but a few things stand out....
First is Julie’s evident interest and ability in delving into the legal and factual details of a case. I can’t imagine parties being anything other than impressed with her thorough and intelligent approach to preparing for mediation. Second, Julie is truly a creative problem-solver and she is tenacious about pursuing options for resolution.”
“Julie is whip smart, thoughtful about both facts and law, and dedicated to ensuring that her clients obtain their best possible result.”
“Julie demonstrated a wonderful balance of empathy, respect, and creativity in exploring non-traditional solutions to address the underlying issues of the parties in an employment discrimination case.
I especially appreciated her sensitivity to the needs of my client, who has a disability, so my client could participate fully in the mediation process.”
“Julie is strong, patient, skilled at managing rooms filled with difficult personalities, and can deftly lead groups toward consensus.”
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