Career
Mercer is also the co-author of Your Divorce Advisor: A Lawyer and a Psychologist Guide You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of Divorce. (Fireside, 2001). Diana Mercer earned her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Indiana University in 1985 and 1988 respectively. Mississippi Mercer left Noyes & Mercer, Professional Corporation in 2000 and founded Peace Talks Mediation Services, Incorporated., a mediation firm dedicated to providing constructive, forward-thinking alternatives to litigation in family law conflicts.
Peace Talks is one of the first firms to team both a neutral attorney and a therapist as co-mediators during mediation sessions, dynamically integrating two important facets of the mediation process.
From 2001 to 2003, Diana Mercer served as an adjunct professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Louisiana Verne. She"s taught graduate level courses in Mediation, Conflict Resolution, and Family Law.
In June 2001, she began serving as a co-trainer at Mosten Mediation Training. In this position, Mercer continues to teach mediation theories and techniques in an interactive training environment.
In 2006, she graduated from the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) Program at University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management Mercer is admitted to practice law in California, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mississippi Mercer practiced family law for many years in New Haven, Connecticut. She filmed a mediation pilot for Pilgrim Films and Television which has been sold to a major cable network.
Diana works closely with Kelly Chang Rickert an attorney/mediator and contestant on the 2005 National Broadcasting Company reality show The Law Firm.
