Our Staff
Our experienced staff is happy to help you mediate your disputes.
Learn more about their stories below.
Michael Rodrigues
Michael is a compassionate, tireless advocate ready to help his clients whenever they are in need. Trained in collaborative law, he finds you timely, fair, and practical resolutions in trying times. Michael represents clients on a range of matters related to Family, Criminal, Corporate, and Employment Law.
John Jones
J. Richard Jones serves as a mediator for Skip the Conflict.
Before joining the team, Mr. Jones held several executive positions in business. He has experience in management disputes, HR strategies as well as employee training. He is currently a Nationally Accredited Mediator for business.
Joe Mansour
Joe is an empathetic and highly-skilled paralegal. His experiences range from Traffic, Administrative, Civil and Family Law to Summary Criminal Offenses and Government legislative appeals along with written submissions respecting High Court cases.
Vesna Tomic
Vesna has extensive experience in the Criminal defence and Civil industry and continues to provide invaluable paralegal and administrative support to barristers and solicitors across a multitude of areas inclusive of litigation, family law, and criminal law.
Dante Harrower
Dante has experience in family violence and has a special interest in family law, criminal law, mental health law, and youth justice. Dante is student currently completing a bachelor’s of Law/Psychology at ACU.
Alyce Russell
Alyce has extensive experience in both civil law and criminal defence. She is dedicated to helping clients find collaborative, minimal-stress resolutions as a mediator.
Professional Accredited Mediators
Mediation is becoming increasingly valued in the legal profession. By having the support and guidance of an expert mediator, parties in dispute can identify issues, review options and contemplate alternatives, before reaching a mutually acceptable result, while avoiding the cost and stress of litigation.
Our company, Skip The Conflict, was designed with the objective of assisting our clients, through mediation, to avoid wasting time and money on litigation, and focusing on getting a resolution to disputes in a stress-free and affordable manner.
Our staff are made up of Nationally Accredited Mediators and Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners who are highly skilled and qualified to perform mediation services across Australia.
How we can help
With NMAS Qualified Mediators, Skip The Conflict can help you and other parties arrive at the best solution for your issues in the most affordable manner. Through mediation, we cover a range of matters, from employment, to commercial to contractual disputes, family law, property settlement, separation, same-sex relationships, and much more.
Our Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) Practitioners can help people who are separated or going through a divorce with their parenting disputes. We can assess families for family violence, child abuse and other family issues and assist with a resolution of such cases.
