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he received his law degree. While attending Willamette, Mr. Marker received a Certificate in Dispute Resolution from Willamette's nationally ranked Center in Dispute Resolution. Mr Marker also attended courses through Pepperdine University's Straus Institute. The number one dispute resolution program in the nation. He finished his formal dispute resolution studies with a Masters of Law at Bond University School of Law. Bond University is a beautiful school on the Pacific coast of Australia in the City of Gold Coast. Mr. Marker encourages mediation in his private cases and also has a mediation case load where he mediates as the mediator between parties. His private practice also serves parents and families in family and juvenile court. Mr. Marker believes that the family is the key unity of society and deserves to be protected. Children particularly need to not feel compromised. He mediates and advocates with the children in mind while protecting parental rights. He has recently joined the Institute for Advance Mediation and Problem Solving. The Institute is a collaboration of attorneys and mediators who are trained in advanced methods of problem solving and believe in proactive nonadversarial means of dispute resolution. The J. Reuben Clark Law Society is an association of attorneys who believe religion has an important role in the practice of law. Mr. Marker is the international chair of the chapter's section for alternative dispute resolution. PRESENTATIONS "Why Negotiators Need Fiction," Utah Council on Conflict Resolution - 2012 Symposium "Leo Tolstoy, Transcendentalism, and Lawyer Problem Solving," Maricopa County Bar Association - Literature and the Law conference - March, 2012. "Rudyard Kipling: The Law of the Jungle & The Unwritten rules of Negotiation" - Willamette University College of Law - Literature and the Law conference - March, 2012 – sponsor: Alumni Relations Department and the student chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Hermoninie Templeton Kavanagh: Darby O'Gill & the role of Folklore in Client Interviews - - Willamette University College of Law - Literature and the Law conference - March, 2012 – sponsor: Alumni Relations Department and the student chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. J. Reuben Clark Law Society – February 2012 – Standford – Annual conference – Examples of the Believers – member of panel Law Office of Travis Marker – February, 2012 – William S. Boyd School of Law in connection with JRC student chapter – Escaping from the Practice of law – Grisham books. Institute for Advanced Mediation and Problem Solving – January, 2012 – SUBA – mediation basics for attorneys with Christian Clinger J. Reuben Clark Law Society – Saint George Chapter, October, 2011 Literature in the Law Conference – “The Law of the Jungle: learning the unwritten rules of negotiation through Rudyard Kipling’s writings.” Southern Utah Bar Association, Saint George, Utah, December, 2010 SUBA Conference: “Using leverage in Negotiations” J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Salt Lake City, February, 2010 Annual International Conference - Panel on mediation Parental Defense Alliance , Midway, Utah, May 2009 Annual Parental Defense Conference – “Fifteen for Success: negotiation strategies for Juvenile Court” Fifteen for Success, Ogden, Utah, November 2008 to November 2009 Created CLE training with fifteen negotiation points. Accredited for CLE in Texas, Florida, Utah, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, California. Presented the training for a Utah Council for Conflict Resolution brown bag in Salt Lake; local attorneys in Logan & Provo, Utah; and for mediators in Salt Lake. Parental Defense Alliance, Midway, Utah, May 2008 Annual Parental Defense Conference – “Tool Box Mediation for Juvenile Court” PUBLICATIONS "The Locals Know" - poem - 2nd place prize Z-Arts! poetry contest. Published in Z-Arts! Newsletter, spring 2012. “Binghamton Heat” - poem - Dixie State College, Southern Quill, spring 2011. "Does He?" - personal essay - Weber State University, Metaphor Vol. 18, spring 2000. |
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