Mr. Hornberger invites you to read his article published in General Practitioner entitled "Mediation for the General Practitioner." 

     He is a mediator with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 28th, 30th, 33rd, 35th, 36th, 37th, 43rd, 45th, 46th, 49th, 51st, and 56th Michigan Judicial Circuit Courts, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Michigan Civil Rights Department, Community Mediation Services (Alpena, Gaylord, and Grayling), Community Reconciliation Services (Traverse City), and Northern Community Mediation (Charlevoix and Petoskey).    

    His mediation training includes Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Specialized Mediation: Handling Difficult Employment, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Cases.

     His training also includes Mediation Training and Consultation Institute, Forty Hour Divorce and Custody (Domestic Relations) Mediation; Mediation Management Services, Domestic Violence Protocol; ICLE Advanced Mediation; Central Michigan Dispute Resolution Center Advanced Mediation; ICLE Advanced Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Institutes; ICLE Forty Hour Civil Case Mediation; Hamilton County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court, Ohio, Mediation; U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan Advanced Mediator; and Collaborative Law.

     He is an Administrative Hearing Officer for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.

     His other mediation experience includes Volunteer Mediator, Hamilton County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court.

     His publications include "Mediation and Arbitration for the Enterpreneur," Your Chamber News (April 2007); "Mediation for the General Practitioner," The General Practitioner (Nov-Dec 2006); "Effective Mediation Preparation," Michigan Lawyers Weekly (September 4, 2006); "Some Reflections on Mediation," The ADR Newsletter (Aug 2006); "Unemployment Compensation Noncontest Provisions in Settlement Agreements," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Spring 2006); "Police-Fire Department Arbitration," Michigan Lawyers Weekly (March 6, 2006); "Settlement Agreements (Part II)," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Winter 2006)(co-author with Kiffi Y Ford); "Settlement Agreements (Part I)," Labor and Employment Lawnotes (Fall 2005)(co-author with Kiffi Y Ford); "Disclosure of Mental Health Records in Mediation," The ADR Newsletter (Oct 2005)(co-author with Robert Tremp); and "Overview of a Pre-Dispute Employment Resolution Process,"The ADR Newsletter (Feb 2005).

     His presentations include Arbitration and Mediation: Resolving Disputes Without Litigation, Northwestern Michigan College and Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce (2007); ADR Trends and Tips, Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association (2007); Mediating Employment, Medical Malpractice, and Personal Injury Cases, Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association, Traverse City (2005); and Settlement Agreements, Annual Labor and Employment Law Institute, Institute of Continuing Legal Education (2005). 

     He has served as a facilitative mediator in abuse of process, age discrimination, assault and battery, bailment, buy-sell agreement, collection, condominium, construction, contract, conversion, defamation, disability, dog-bite, domestic relations, entertainment, equal pay, family law, fiduciary duty, foreclosure, fraud, insurance, invasion of privacy, land contract, landlord-tenant, landscaping, legal malpractice, logging, mechanic's lien, medical malpractice, mold, national origin discrimination, no-fault, nuisance,  over-payment, parenting time,  personal injury, personnel, pregnancy discrimination, property division, religious discrimination, restitution, retaliation, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, shareholder rights, sovereign immunity, spousal support, time-share, tortious interference, trade secret, transportation, trespass, tribal, and veterinary cases.