The Team
Founder of SCI Mediation
Lead Mediator and Consultant Liora Paniz, MDR
A veteran of federal, state, and private mediations, Liora has developed strategic conflict intervention for application across sectors and disciplines. As Founder and Lead Mediator for SCI Mediation, Liora actively provides mediation and consultation for familial disputes, personal and professional relationships, business transactions and related negotiations, and disputes resulting from the ultra-intense pressures of competitive sports and performance-based events and activities. Her belief in mediation as the rising star in our dispute resolution firmament is evidenced by a decade-long dedication to providing necessary and approachable mediation and conflict intervention. Liora is the author of Inside the Mind of a Mediator: Strategic Conflict Intervention, (Aspen Publishing, 2019); utilizing this textbook for training and guest lecturing.
As a Certified Co-Parenting Specialist and a Trained Co-Parenting Guide, Liora brings a child-centered approach while working with separating parents and their ongoing co-parenting.
Member: Association of Threat Assessment Professionals; Southern California Mediation Association
Carlos Altimari, JD, LL.M
Mediator, Consultant
Spanish, English
Carlos Altimari is the founding Partner of SLV Consultores, a boutique law firm focused on Financial Structuring and Corporate Law. Carlos is a Mediator, and Arbitrator on the Chamber of Commerce in his hometown of Maracaibo, Venezuela. He has worked in the public sector as a Chief of Staff to the Governor of Miranda, Venezuela from 2013 to 2017 and as Country Legal Manager for Anheuser Busch Inbev from 2006 to 2010, where he specialized in negotiations and mediation with Unions and consumer goods business. Carlos believes that honesty, loyalty, creativity, and dedication are the best and most valuable practices that result in successful outcomes and lasting relationships.
Carlos holds an LL.M from the University of Southern California (Gould School of Law), where he was a Student Ambassador. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from La Universidad del Zulia in his hometown Maracaibo, Venezuela. He also holds a Specialization in Corporate Law from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela.