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Management
Team
| Rikk
I. Larsen, Managing Partner |
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Rikk
Larsen is a mediator, trainer, conflict coach and Managing Partner
at Howell Larsen Associates. He received his mediation training
at the Harvard Mediation Program of the Harvard Law School, Mediation
Works Incorporated (MWI) and The Center for Social Gerontology.
He has advanced training in elder care, divorce, parent/child, landlord/tenant,
civil/criminal, and transformative mediation. Rikk has attended
MWI’s Train the Trainer Institute and Harvard Law School’s
Program on Negotiation. He has attended the Harvard Negotiation
Insight Initiative’s Summer Learning Forum on meditation and
mediation. His community mediation work includes parent/child cases
through the Metropolitan Mediation Service. A founding partner of
Elder Decisions, Rikk has lived in the Boston area since 1970. He
is a member of the New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict
Resolution and the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation. He
received his BA from Williams College and his MBA from Harvard Business
School. |
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| Gerald
W. Howell, Partner |
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Mr. Howell
grew up in Belmont, MA and has lived in Lexington, MA since 1965.
He received his BBA from Clarkson University in 1959, did graduate
schooling at Bentley College, is a CPA, and was awarded the Certified
Financial Planner designation in 1988. He is a partner in the public
accounting firm of Howell Associates, LLP where he has been employed
since 1961. |
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| John.
D. Howell, Partner |
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Mr. Howell,
Gerry's brother, also resides in Lexington. He is a graduate of
the University of Massachusetts with a degree in accounting and
is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Financial Planner.
He has been a partner in Howell Associates, LLP since 1962. John
and Gerry's father, Gerald Howell, founded Howell Associates, LLP
in 1939. |
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| John
Dugan , Director of Elder Care Mediation Services |
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John
Dugan is a mediator, a licensed independent clinical social worker,
and a founding partner of Elder
Decisions. He specializes in family mediation and has received
advanced training certificates in elder mediation from The Center
for Social Gerontology and divorce mediation from the Hale and Dorr
Legal Services Center. He received his mediation certificate from
the Harvard Mediation Program (HMP) of the Harvard Law School. While
at Harvard, he was employed as the program's case coordinator, mediator,
and advanced mediation trainer. He has also been a trainer for the
Metropolitan Mediation Services, Brookline, MA. His specialty is
in helping families through major life changes such as divorce,
post-divorce, CHINS, and elder care. John joined Howell-Larsen Associates
in Lexington, MA, to become Director of Elder Care Mediation and
maintains a private practice in Cambridge, MA. He is a former board
member of the Massachusetts Association of Mediation Programs and
Practitioners. He received his undergraduate degree from Connecticut
College and his graduate degree from Smith College School for Social
Work. |
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| Joshua
C. Howell,
Principal |
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Josh, Gerry’s
son, is the third generation in the family business. Josh grew up
in Lexington and attended Lexington High School. He then attended
Dartmouth College where he graduated in 1988 with a Bachelors of
Arts in Sociology. Josh worked for several years in the mutual fund
industry prior to receiving his certificate in accountancy from
Bentley College in 1997. He worked for a medium sized CPA firm for
three years before joining Howell Associates in 2000. |
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