Our services
MEDIATION
Accord Mediation seeks to bring parties to an agreement — an accord — as efficiently as possible. We make mediation as efficient and flexible as possible. We offer high quality mediation, including Video Mediation, from lawyers with many years of practice in their areas of expertise.
ARBITRATION
The areas of arbitration offered go from aviation to nursing home cases. Arbitration can resolve a case that needs to have evidence presented and a decision. This can be done well before a case goes to trial in court, and for less time and expense. Please review the areas available for arbitration by Jim Anderson or Mel Mobley.
RESEARCH
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mel Mobley earned a Ph.D. and directed a research center at Emory and continues research into the influence of social psychological factors on the success of mediation. Feel free to review our research, or contact Accord Mediation for more information.
COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS
Even with corporate training available for diversity and inclusion, a need exists for smaller conversations about race and racism. Accord Mediation can provide a place, time, and structure for such conversations at no charge with a trained facilitator.
Our team
Attorney
Mel Mobley received his B.A. degree from the University of Florida in 1970, a M.Div. from Duke University in 1973, a Ph.D. degree in 1980 from Emory University, and received his law degree from Georgia State University in 1987. Mel is a State of Georgia Registered Mediator, General Civil Mediation.
Attorney
Jim Anderson received his B.A. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1974 and received his law degree from University of Georgia School of Law in 1980. Jim is a State of Georgia Registered Mediator and Arbitrator. He has served as both Municipal and Magistrate judge.
Mediator
Jim received his B.A. degree from University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business in 2003. He graduated from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School in 2009, and has since practiced many areas of the law. His law firm focuses on personal injury litigation. Jim has been a registered civil mediator since 2010.
Mr. Johnson credits his career success to the foundational education he received in the segregated Wilmington, NC public schools. He received a B.A. Psychology degree from NC Central University and holds a MBA from Fordham. Alvin is a member of Sandy Springs’ Zoning Board.
Attorney
Ms. Spillers began her legal career nineteen years ago practicing Georgia workers’ compensation defense and general liability defense. After five years, Janis “switched sides” to become a claimant’s attorney and represented injured workers exclusively for the past fourteen years.