About Us
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.
Tom Stodulka
Tom Stodulka graduated in Law at Sydney University in 1974. For the past 30 years he has specialised in mediation, having mediated over 5000 disputes throughout Australia ranging from workplace, restorative justice and historic abuse matters, family and estate law, building and construction and multi-party disputes involving remote indigenous communities.
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 Offences 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.
Jennifer Jennings
Jennifer has experience in Family, Property and Civil Law, as well as Wills and Estates. Jennifer has worked for a number of years as a solicitor, but now with a young family, Jennifer is eager to assist clients in a different role.
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.
Disputes We Can Help With
Family Disputes
Our Family Dispute Resolution Practitioners use creative problem-solving skills to remedy disputes involving parenting, child support, separation and divorce. Along with the out-of-court nature of these processes, Skip the Conflict provides innovative and empathetic solutions to help all parties reach a respectful agreement.
Australian family law requires separated parents to try Family Dispute Resolution before requesting parenting orders from a family law court.
Employment Matters
Everyone deserves a peaceful employment experience, but when conflicts occur, our Nationally Accredited Mediators are available to assist in quelling the situation in a confidential manner before issues can escalate further.
Civil Disputes
When legal conflicts arise, our mediators listen carefully to all parties involved. After taking all concerns into consideration, Skip The Conflict works alongside all parties to offer a number of potential solutions to prevent escalating it to court.
Contractual Disputes
Fair contracts are necessary for a healthy work environment and equates to less stress in the long run for both employee and employer. However, disagreements do happen! Skip The Conflict’s expert mediators provide solutions that work alongside the parties involved, and allow for a fair negotiation.
Commercial Disputes
Commercial disputes may range from issues such as contract violations to intellectual property infringement – both of which may initially call for costly legal action. Before escalating it to court immediately, our affordable mediation team can aid in saving costly court fees and help reach a fair settlement where all parties are content.
Personal Injury
When accidents result in personal injury, victims may be compelled to take perpetrators straight to court, which may result in unfavorable outcomes and alarming costs. To avoid this, it is important to employ a skilled mediator to see if a fair settlement is negotiable, bypassing court completely. Skip The Conflict’s NMAS certified team is happy to assist and offer their expertise so that everyone walks away from the settlement satisfied.
How we deliver the results that you want!
We listen, listen, listen!
Our staff are experienced in understanding cases and how to apply the law so as to find a resolution to your dispute with the other party.
All of this in an efficent, cost-effective and resolution-oriented manner.
Let's work together to resolve your disputes!
Contact us for more information or to get a free quote.