Charlotte Steinfeld

I am a CEDR accredited commercial mediator and registered member of the Civil Mediation Council, with expertise across a range of civil and commercial disputes, particularly in contentious trusts, wills and probate. I am also a qualified barrister practicing in the areas of civil, chancery and commercial law from 10 King’s Bench Walk (“10KBW”), Inner Temple, where I am currently Deputy Head of chambers and head of the 10KBW Mediation Group. I further enjoy advising and representing parties in mediation as a “mediation advocate”. I hold a certificate in Advanced Mediation Advocacy from the Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates (SCMA) and am a founder member of its inaugural panel.

I am one of, if not the the only, civil/commercial mediator in the UK who has completed executive education in negotiation skills at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation with Professor Bruce Paton, co-author of leading negotiation text: Getting to Yes, Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In. I use the Harvard framework of principled negotiation to help parties and their representatives prepare for and strategically resolve their dispute/s at mediation, whether appointed as mediator or whether representing a party. My mediation style is assertively facilitative: assisting parties hold a rigorous yet respectful negotiation, coaching them to maximise gain and helping to ensure that a workable agreement is made in the parties’ mutual self-interest. I am skilled at ensuring parties feel understood and (where a two-party dispute) that they have both "won" at mediation.