Nancy Shuger

Senior Mediator

Mediator / Retired Judge · Senior Mediator

NANCY B. SHUGER began working as a trained mediator in 2011 after serving 18 years as a trial judge, handling civil and criminal matters, and settling hundreds of cases. Her practice is multi-cultural, focusing primarily on family, small business, workplace and congregational matters. She is experienced in dealing with diverse individuals and cases; she enjoys working with self-represented litigants. She helps parties achieve realistic results, as an alternative to, or in the context of, litigation. She offers a positive way to resolve conflict without the stress, cost, and uncertainty of litigation. She helps parties discover common interests and resolve disputes themselves. She views mediation as effective whether parties desire to address differences in an ongoing relationship, or to reach a mutually agreeable solution to a single dispute. Her approach is calm, empathetic, and focused; her analytical and listening skills are excellent; and her concern for neutrality is deep. Her preferred mediation style is facilitative. Most often she uses the facilitative, transformative, and evaluative models in combination as the situation requires. She is located in Baltimore and offers services throughout Maryland and other states. NANCY B. SHUGER served for 18 years as a judge on the District Court of Maryland, handling civil and criminal matters. Before that she held several public lawyer positions, including service as an Assistant Attorney General and Principal Counsel to the Maryland Department of Human Resources; Managing Attorney of a rural legal aid office in Washington state; Faculty in a clinical law program of the University of Maryland Carey School of Law; and Advocacy Director of the Maryland Council on Developmental Disabilities.