Erik M Feig founded Feig Mediation Group, a parent and family-focused mediation firm in Bethesda, Maryland to help parents, families and businesses create paths to more positive outcomes when important issues and decisions are on the line and communication can be most difficult.  He is a mediator, accomplished attorney, and parent of three amazing, neurodivergent children.

As a mediator, he is committed to helping his clients align with each other when important issues and decisions need to be addressed and the old, familiar ways of doing things are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of today – or tomorrow. It’s an approach that recognizes – and seeks to mitigate against – the stress and harm that can result from poor or ineffective communication and unresolved conflict.

As a parent in a neurodiverse family himself, Mr. Feig has a particular commitment to working with parents where neurodiversity and special needs are factors in their families.  He brings a practical, real-world approach to help parents engage each other more constructively when decisions impacting their neurodivergent children are required.

His experience and training extends to both family mediation and commercial business mediation, including mediation for parents needing help when they are not – yet – on the same page, including when neurodiversity is a factor in the family, separation and divorce (e.g., co-parenting and child access issues, and economic issues such as division of property and assets, and support), mediating high conflict family disputes, elder and adult family mediation, parenting coordination, and collaborative law practice.

Indeed, in the context of the collaborative law process he is a firm believer that a neutral mediator who does not have a stake in the outcome can be a valued resource to help get through impasse and sticking points, while supporting the goals and success of the collaborative law process.

Combining all of this with a background in engineering that is rooted in designing and developing practical solutions to complex problems, Mr. Feig draws from an extensive toolset that sets him apart from so many practitioners with “traditional” notions of what mediation can achieve. He helps his clients expand their perspectives to see the bigger picture so that they can better explore what’s possible, collaboratively and with less stress, thus facilitating more positive outcomes.

Mr. Feig received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law and his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He is a member of the bars of Maryland, Washington DC, and New York.

A lifelong learner who believes strongly that every day offers opportunities to learn and expand how he may better serve the families he works with, Mr. Feig is a member and contributor to two professional discussion and learning groups, including through the Mosten Guthrie Academy, where he shares best practices with other leaders in the field. He is a member mediator on the rosters of Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals of Maryland and Collaborative Professionals of Baltimore, and is on the roster of approved mediators for the Circuit Court of the City of Baltimore, MD.