About Leyla and Jennifer
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Leyla Balakhane
Divorce and Family Law Mediator.
Leyla Balakhane is a divorce and family mediator, trainer, mentor, and educator dedicated to helping families resolve conflict with empathy, understanding, and practical solutions.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Mediation Association (SCMA) and previously served as Chair of Membership.
Leyla is also a trainer and educator with the Mediation Center of Los Angeles (MCLA). She helped develop the curriculum for its 12-Hour Advanced Family Mediation Training, assisted in organizing the program’s presenters, and serves as one of its instructors. MCLA obtained court approval for the training program.
Her professional experience also includes service on the Los Angeles County Bar Association Arbitration Panel (LACBA) and continued involvement in mediation leadership, education, and professional development.
Jennifer Terando
Registered Nurse. Attorney. Mediator.
Jennifer likes to joke that the upside of mid-life means she has years of knowledge and experience with which to assist her clients. Her well-rounded career dates back to her obtaining her BSN with honors from the Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University over 20 years ago and continuing on to her scholarship to Case Western Reserve University School of Law where she obtained her JD with a certificate in health law from the perennially recognized Law and Medicine Center and served as an associate editor on the Health Matrix: Journal of Law and Medicine.
Jennifer has worked as a Registered Nurse in medical-surgical and post-partum, general pediatrics, a pediatric surgical floor, and NICU. She has practiced nursing in Ohio, Florida and California, including at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, where she was the charge nurse on a pediatric chronic care unit, caring for children with medically-complex/high-needs conditions, and at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. read more