V. Michelle Obradovic is an attorney / mediator and owner of Wise Resolution, LLC. She has mediated in excess of 1220 cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, environmental issues and business torts, among others, including co-mediation of over 145 complex cases, mass torts, class actions and MDLs with Rod Max.

Michelle is the Director of the Jefferson County, Alabama, District Court Mediation Project, a program she created in 1999, that provides dispute resolution training to attorneys and judges and coordinates volunteer mediators. The Project resolves in excess of 400 small claims cases per year and is now charged with mediating all pending property tax appeal cases in Jefferson County. The next phase of the Project is Victim/Offender Conferencing and Restorative Justice. Michelle has also been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law since 2002 teaching Mediation Advocacy and Mediation Practice and Process.

She was educated by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at Trinity College in Washington DC, is a graduate of Samford University, Cumberland School of Law and is an LL.M. Candidate at Pepperdine University, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

Michelle clerked for Judge Michael F. Bolin, Probate Court of Jefferson County (now a member of the Alabama Supreme Court) and Senior Judge Edward S. Smith, (dec.) U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, Washington, DC and for the 104th Congress, United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Democratic Minority Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information, Senators Herbert H, Kohl (D-WI), Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).