
About

Tania Pagan
MEDIATOR
Tania Pagan is passionate about helping parties settle their disputes. She guides lawyers and their clients to navigate through conflict and the range of emotions that accompany litigation and being "worlds apart" about the facts of a case, applicable law, and valuation of damages.
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Mediation with Tania is about effective communication with each other, identifying interests, and vigorous risk benefit analysis. Lawyers who mediate with her gain focus and a mindset to cut through posturing. Tania helps parties to unlock negotiations, crush impasse, and narrate the outcome of their case, often saving time and money.
For over three decades as a New York attorney, Tania has been an advocate and negotiator in complex medical malpractice and personal injury cases. She is well regarded by clients, the judiciary, attorneys, and insurance industry insiders. She is a natural communicator and seasoned negotiator of hundreds of career settlements. She knows how to manage expectations and help shift entrenched positions. Her dedicated neutrality as a mediator, combined with extensive experience as a successful lawyer, makes her a highly effective and sought-after independent mediator.
Tania trained in person at Harvard Law School's Executive Education Program on Negotiations: Mediating Disputes. She was certified as mediator through training and experience at a local community dispute resolution center. She has completed multiple mediation training courses for excellence in personal injury and advanced commercial mediation through NYSBA and New York Law School. Tania is a perpetual student of the law and ethics, mediation practices, and negotiations.
Tania has served as a Special Master mediator in person at a New York State Supreme Court – Civil Term. She mediates remotely or in person in her private practice and for court annexed mediation programs in civil cases. She mediates a wide range of matters including personal injury, medical and legal malpractice, insurance disputes, complex commercial and contractual claims, business disputes, and commercial real estate matters. She is featured in the NY Statewide Directory of Mediators and the NYSBA Directory of Mediators.
To retain Tania Pagan as a mediator to confidently guide you and your clients through disputes to resolution, reach her at tpagan@mediatingdisputes.com.
Tania’s Engagement Beyond the Mediation Table
LEADERSHIP​
Executive Officer, Trial Lawyers Section, NYSBA (2021 -present)
Co-Chair, Trial Lawyers Section – Arbitration and ADR Committee, NYSBA (2021 – present)
Task Force on Revising the CPLR – NYSBA (2024-present)
Chair, Arbitration and ADR Committee, WBASNY (2024-present)
Co-Chair, ADR Committee, NYWBA (2023-present)
Trial Academy Faculty – NYSBA (2022, 2023, 2024)
PUBLICATION
NYSBA Trial Lawyers Section Digest 2024 | The Benefits of Joint Sessions at Mediation in ‘The Room Where It Happens’
SPEAKING
NYSBA – Panelist, Transitioning to a Mediation Mindset (2024)
NYWBA – Panelist, Civility Panel Discussion, Please and Thank You are Still ‘Magic Words’ (2024)
NYWBA – ADR Committee, CLE Speaker, Mediation Tips for Personal Injury Practitioners (2023)
NYSBA – Arbitration and ADR Committee, CLE Speaker, Optimizing You and Your Case for Mediation (2021)
MEMBERSHIP
American Bar Association
American Health Law Association
Association for Conflict Resolution – Greater NY Chapter
Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association
New York City Bar Association
New York County Lawyers Association
New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers
New York State Trial Lawyers Association
New York Women’s Bar Association
Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York