- Attorney/Mediator, Privacy Consultant
- Professional Speaker/Trainer
- Negotiations, Mediation
- Conflict Management
- Privacy and Identity Theft
- Corporate Consultant
- Law and University Professor, Expert Witness
- Certified Trainer, State Bar of California
- Published Author; Radio Talk Show Host
- Media Resource: Television, Radio and Print Media
Mari Frank is an attorney,
mediator, speaker, author, professional trainer, and privacy consultant in private
practice in Laguna Niguel, California. She has worked in the District Attorney’s
Office, practiced law in insurance defense, and has had a general civil law practice. She
has successfully resolved thousands of disputes as a neutral. Prior to becoming an
attorney, Ms. Frank was a university professor, educational consultant, school district
administrator, and elected School Board Member. She received her BA from the University of
Wisconsin (Madison), her Masters Degree from Hofstra University, and Law Degree from
Western State University College of Law. She received her post law school negotiation and
mediation certification from Mc George School of Law, Harvard Law School, and Pepperdine
Law School.
Ms. Frank was the founding
President of the Orange County Chapter of the Society for Professionals in Dispute
Resolution-Orange County. She served for three years as founding Chair of the State Bar of
California Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. of the State Bar Standing Committee
on Legal Services. Ms. Frank has taught hundreds of law students as a Law Professor, and
thousands of attorneys as a certified trainer for continuing legal education for the Bar.
She presently teaches Negotiation and Mediation in the Conflict Resolution Department of
the University of California, Irvine.
Ms. Frank served on the Mediation
Advisory Board for the Irvine office of the American Arbitration Association. She was
Chair of the ADR Court Diversion Program of the Orange County Bar Association and served
on the Board of Southern California Mediation Association.
Ms. Frank serves as a neutral for
the Franchise Arbitration and Mediation, Inc., Dispute Resolution Management, and the U.S.
Federal Administrative Panel of Neutrals. She has authored many published articles,
booklets, and a textbook on negotiation and conflict resolution.
Ms. Frank provides corporate
consulting, and presents transformational training programs for lawyers, professionals,
governmental agencies and corporations. She has taught a myriad of participants to utilize
effective "solutioneering" techniques to transform adversity into opportunities
for successful agreements and enhanced, superior relationships.
As a privacy expert, Ms. Frank
has authored the Identity Theft Survival Kit, From Victim to
Victor; Safeguard Your Identity; and co-Authored Privacy Piracy.
Ms. Frank has testified several times before the U.S. Senate and the California
Legislature, the FTC and the Social Security Administration and gave a speech at the White
House with former President Bill Clinton in 1999 She has appeared on many national
television and radio shows. She has been featured in the numerous national publications.
Ms Frank has been interviewed on over 250 radio shows and is the host of Privacy Piracy
a public affairs radio show at KUCI, 88.9 FM at the University of California, Irvine.
Please visit her websites at www.identitytheft.org
and www.kuci.org/privacypiracy.
Ms Frank served as a Board
Member and legal counsel for Unity Community Church in Laguna Hills, Ca. and serves on the
National Advisory
Board of Divorce Magazine. She sits on the advisory board of the California
Office of Privacy Protection, and she also is a sheriff reserve for the Orange County,
California Sheriffs Department.
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