Circuit Court Civil Certification

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Mediation Skills & Process (20 hours)
• Advanced civil mediation training totaling at least 20 hours & covering these topics:

Facilitation & Group Consensus Building (16 hours)

Mediating Complex & Multiparty Civil Cases (8 hours)

Preparing Memoranda & Agreements (4 hours)

• Orientation to the Virginia Judicial System (4 hours) (may be taken out of order)
• Observation of two circuit civil cases or Mediation Practicum (fulfills the observation requirement for CCC Certification (8 hours)
• Co-mediation of 5 circuit level civil cases (totaling at least 10 hours mediation time)

- Primary scrivener for at least one mediated agreement

General District Court (GDC) Certified Mediators may “upgrade” to Circuit Court Civil Certification by:

- Taking the advanced civil mediation training described above.
- Observing one circuit court civil case.
- Conducting two circuit court civil co-mediations.