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Frank Hanna, Co-founder, Mediator and Instructor

Some of Frank Hanna’s career highlights: Senior Partner of one of Ireland’s leading law firms for eighteen years. First Irishman to become a member of American Trial Lawyers Association. A founder member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. A member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists since 1968. Host of his own Television program for 8 years in N. Ireland. Former Board member of the Ulster Orchestra. Designed an award winning computer system used by many leading law firms in the UK Current President of the Arizona Dispute Resolution Association. Independent mediation contractor for the EEOC *

“ It is for others to judge my competence at dealing with conflict, but, having lived through it, I certainly know what it is, and I take that experience into my teaching”  ~ Frank Hanna

Frank Hanna brings a remarkable depth and experience to the world of mediation. His understanding of conflict is irrefutable having lived and worked through the entirety of Northern Ireland’s troubles over the past 34 years. During this time he ran his law practice and worked in Radio and Television seeing at first hand the enormity of the pain and suffering of his fellow countrymen.
	In 1984 he spearheaded the most innovative industrial fight back in Northern Ireland’s past 50 years. Frank led hundreds of employees, dismissed from one of the world’s major companies, to acquire and develop their own company at Maydown in Derry, Northern Ireland. He became their first chairman and guided the company for the first six years of its life.