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A. BLANTON MASSEY
A. Blanton Massey is a licensed Virginia attorney with A. Blanton
Massey & Associates, P.C., and a Va. Supreme Court Certified
Mediator with The Mediation Center, Inc.
He earned a B.S. from Randolph-Macon College in 1965, a J.D. from
the University of Virginia in 1968 and LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown
University Law Center in 1986.
He has been mediating domestic, real estate, business and personal
injury cases since 1987. He has over 500 hours of mediation, arbitration
and negotiation training. He has mediated over 1,000 times. He is
an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict
Resolution. He was approved as a Consultant (mentor) with the Academy
of Family Mediators and mediation Mentor with the Supreme Court
of Virginia’s Dept. of Dispute Resolution. He served on the
Virginia State Bar-Virginia Bar Association Joint Committee on Alternative
Dispute Resolution. He is an approved U.S. Postal Service mediator
( EEO cases), and was trained by the American Arbitration Association
in construction arbitration and the National Association of Realtors®
in real estate mediation.
He has lectured or trained for the Office of Dispute Resolution
of the Executive Secretary of the Virginia Supreme Court, Virginia
Mediation Network, Rappahannock Mediation Center, ADR Institute
and Mediate-Tech, Inc., and as adjunct faculty instructor at Germanna
Community College.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors and legal counsel
of the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of Germanna
Community College's Center for Business Studies, Chairman of Mary
Washington College’s Small Business Development Center’s
Advisory Board; has taught for Germanna Community College (Business
Law, Real Estate Law & Mediation classes), and the local Chamber
of Commerce (various business & legal seminars); is Past President
of the Fredericksburg Bar Association, Fredericksburg Legal Aid
Society, Fredericksburg Estate Planning Council and Rappahannock
Mediation Center. He is on the Planned Giving Advisory Councils
of Mary Washington Hospital Foundation and Mary Washington College
and on the Paraprofessional Advisory Committee and the Legal Assistant
Advisory Committee of Germanna Community College.
CAROL L. BUFFUM
Carol L. Buffum is a licensed Virginia attorney with A. Blanton
Massey & Associates, P.C., and a Va. Supreme Court Certified
Mediator with The Mediation Center, Inc.
She relocated from Atlanta, Georgia, in August 2000, where her law
practice included negotiating, mediating, arbitrating and litigating
cases involving domestic relations, employment disputes, businesses,
wills, trusts and estates, and personal injury. She holds a license
to practice law in the State of Georgia, which is on inactive status
since she moved to Virginia.
She earned a B.A. from The College of William and Mary in 1981,
a J.D. from the University of Georgia in 1987.
She has been mediating and arbitrating domestic, employment, real
estate, business, securities, estate, and personal injury cases
since 1989, and has engaged in approximately 500 mediations and
arbitrations. She is a Certified Mediator for Virginia courts, and
is a Registered Neutral in the State of Georgia, where she received
referrals from all metro-Atlanta court-annexed alternative dispute
resolution programs. She is also an arbitrator for the National
Association for Securities Dealers. She served on the boards of
the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section for the Atlanta Bar Association,
and Cobb County (Georgia) Mediator’s Association, and was
a trainer for several seminars offered by continuing legal education
programs in Georgia.
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