Matthew Carroll

Matthew Carroll

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Currently teaching:
Divorce Mediation Training

Matthew Carroll, Mediator, is a passionate, dedicated, and highly organized mediator with significant experience in domestic and civil mediation. He is co-owner of Keystone Mediation, located in Dyer, Indiana, and an Adjunct Faculty member with Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies. Additionally, Matthew serves as a volunteer mediator with the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, Illinois, and the Community Justice and Mediation Center in Bloomington, Indiana.

Matthew has provided mediation training and coaching with Northwestern University, the Supreme Court of Indiana: 40-hour basic training in Indianapolis, Indiana, and private mentorship through Keystone Mediation. He has provided continuing legal education (CLE) seminars and presentations through the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE), Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF), and the Indiana Association of Mediators (IAM). Matthew is involved in numerous professional organizations, including the Indiana Association of Mediators, where he serves as Vice-President, a Certified Practitioner with the Academy of Professional Family Mediators, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the American Bar Association, and the Lake County (IN) Bar Association. Through Keystone Mediation, Matthew mediates the dissolution of marriages, parenting plans, property division, child support, small business conflicts, landlord/tenant disagreements, and contract disputes. He is also a Supreme Court of Indiana registered Parenting Coordinator.

Matthew enjoyed a 17-year Grammy® Award-winning career as a professional musician. He frequently collaborated with diverse artists from around the world and actively participated in the collective bargaining negotiation process serving as a labor negotiator for the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).Outside of mediation, Matthew is a father, an avid hiker, a sports enthusiast, a movie buff, and an advocate for the arts.


Sandra Crawford

Sandra Crawford

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Currently teaching:
Divorce Mediation Training

Sandra Crawford, JD, Mediator, Collaborative Lawyer - LinkedIn Sandra Crawford, JD, Mediator, Collaborative Lawyer

For over 35 years Crawford has dedicated her dispute resolution practices (mediation and Collaborative Process) to educating and leading clients to the clearest path for peaceful resolution of their legal disputes. She helps people move out of conflict using the most appropriate resolution model for their unique concerns - be that- mediation, the Collaborative Process, limited scope representation or settlement advocacy.

Crawford has been licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois since 1990 and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 2005. She received her mediation training from the Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in 1993 and her training in Collaborative Practice in 2002 from the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois (CLII, now known as Collaborative Divorce Illinois). She served for many years as a volunteer mediator for CCR mediating family, landlord/tenant, employment dispute and other civil matters. Crawford is also a trained Circle Keeper in the Circle Process model of dispute resolution.

Crawford’s current areas of concentration are family law, mediation and Collaborative Practice. Crawford served as the president of the CLII from 2009-2010 and sat on its Board of Directors for many years. She has served as Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s (ISBA) Alternative Dispute Resolution Section Council and its Delivery of Legal Services Committee. She is a former Chair of the ISBA’s Women in the Law Committee. She has served as President of the Illinois Bar Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of the ISBA. Crawford is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and serves on its Trainer Development Network, where she helped author a training manual for trainers providing basic skills training in that model.

Each year since 2010, Crawford has been nominated and chosen by her peers as an Illinois Super Lawyer and currently holds that distinction and recognized by Super Lawyers as being among the top 100 women lawyers in the State. In 2018 she received the Illinois Leading Lawyer designation. She is a principal in the Trainers for the Advancement of Collaborative Practice, a professional training company which has provided basic skills training for interdisciplinary professionals in that interest-based model of dispute resolution.

Crawford has served as an adjunct faculty member teaching mediation and dispute resolution at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and North Central College. She lectures and writes frequently on the topic of alternative dispute resolution. She coached for many years for 40-hour Divorce Mediation Training in NW’s School of Professional Studies, before becoming the co-instructor in 2018. Her peacemaking practice is located in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois.


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