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Earlene R. Baggett-Hayes

Earlene Baggett-Hayes serves as an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, fact-finder, and trainer. She is the principal of The Law and Mediation Center, PLLC, in Pontiac, MI. She has practiced in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for over twenty-five (25) years. She focuses primarily on Employment, Labor, Business and Domestic Relations disputes nationally. Among Earlene’s affiliations are the American Arbitration Association, National Association of Distinguished Neutrals, and the National Mediation Board. Earlene received the State Bar of Michigan “Distinguished Service in ADR Award,” and has been inducted into the International Academy of Mediators as a Distinguished Fellow.  She is also a member of Professional Resolution Experts of Michigan (PREMi).

Earlene has utilized alternative dispute resolution throughout her career. As an attorney, she has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in various aspects of employment and labor law, approaching litigation vociferously and zealously.  Other law practice experience ranges business and real estate to domestic relations and probate work. Prior to entering the legal arena, Earlene served in managerial positions in Human Resources in both the automotive and telecommunications industries. There she excelled in negotiating labor contracts, as well as overseeing and resolving employee disputes at all levels of the organizations. Earlene currently serves on numerous national mediation and arbitration panels and travels extensively in that role.

As a mediator, Earlene utilizes facilitative, evaluative, and transformative processes, and has mediated cases involving large corporations to small businesses, employment and labor, domestic relations, community service agencies, the probate arena, neighborhood disputes, municipalities, and religious institutions.  Additionally, for over ten years she has developed and conducted mediation training that include 40-hour Civil Mediation Training, 40-hour Domestic Mediation Training, and numerous other programs targeted to specific aspects of mediation.

In her arbitrator role, Earlene serves as a sole arbitrator and on three-person panels.  She has written numerous reasoned awards for both public and private sector parties and disputes, and has participated in and conducted extensive training on arbitration topics.  She regularly serves as a guest lecturer for national ADR administrators, colleges, universities, and law schools to discuss mediation and arbitration. Earlene has also written numerous articles on ADR-related topics, all of which have been published.

Earlene is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. She also received the D. Augustus Straker Trailblazer Award for her work in alternative dispute resolution as both a practitioner and a mentor.  In addition, Earlene has been recognized by the National Association of Business Women, the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women, and the Oakland County Bar Association. Recently, Earlene received the Payne-Pulliam “Hero Next Door” award and was recognized by the Michigan State Bar for her “Distinguished Service in ADR.”