Sharon B. Eckstein is an attorney with over 20 years of mediation and dispute resolution experience. Her areas of expertise include mediation, facilitation, conflict coaching and teaching. Sharon has a particular focus on disputes involving those who have had prior relationships or who maintain ongoing contact - employment and workplace, adult family and elder law, divorce and custody, business partnerships, organizational boards, condo/HOA matters, and community land use disputes. She is a member of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) employment mediation panel and an advanced practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). She is the immediate past chair of the Lower Merion (PA) Human Relations Commission where she designed and implemented its innovative and highly successful mediation program; she served as mediator for all claims filed during her 7 years with the Commission.

Sharon also serves as a mediator with the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission, the EEOC, the PA Agricultural Mediation Program, the Tri-County Realtors Mediation program, and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Fee Dispute program. She previously served as a mediator with the Chester County and Philadelphia County court-based custody mediation programs.

Sharon is also an arbitrator. She currently serves as an arbitrator on the AAA employment panel and AAA consumer panel. She is also an arbitrator with FINRA, the Chester County and Philadelphia Bar Associations’ fee dispute committees, and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School since 2006, Sharon teaches and supervises students enrolled in mediation clinical courses. Previously, she served as adjunct professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. She is a certified teacher of mediation and consensual dispute resolution with the Center for Understanding in Conflict.

Sharon is a board member with the National Association for Community Mediation (NAFCM), and a volunteer mediator with the Philadelphia Eviction Diversion Program and the Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission Community-Police Mediation Program. A frequent presenter at CLE courses and professional development workshops, she is also committed to educating the public about consensual dispute mediation and conflict management; she has offered community workshops on conflict and conflict resolution in the greater Philadelphia area.

Sharon received her juris doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was a summa cum laude graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York where she was a Belle Zeller scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.