Michelle ("Mickey") Katz is certified by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in family law.  After years of advocacy work, she now devotes her practice exclusively to non-litigation conflict resolution services in family law, including mediation, consulting services in mediation and collaborative law, and unbundled legal services.  A frequent speaker on mediation and collaborative law,  Ms. Katz is a former member of the Council of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and Membership Chair.  She is a Past President of the California Dispute Resolution Council (CDRC), and has been a member of the Board of Directors of that organization for over nine years.  She is a former chair of the California State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution and a former member of the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Family Law Section.  Ms. Katz also served as a member of the ADR Consulting Group to the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization.  She is one of the founders of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association.  She currently carries Martindale Hubbell's AV rating.  Ms. Katz has been named a Best Lawyer in America for 2010, 2011 and 2012 in Family Law Mediation and as a 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 Southern California Super Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution.  She has trained with Gary Friedman at the Center for Mediation in Law and with Roger Fisher and Robert Mnookin at Harvard.