{"id":4452,"date":"2017-09-21T14:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffkichavendev.gearhostpreview.com\/?page_id=4452"},"modified":"2019-11-15T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:37:49","slug":"jeff-kichavens-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-339495-1053539.cloudwaysapps.com\/jeff-kichavens-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Kichaven\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;About me&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h6|font_size:25px|text_align:left|color:%23dddddd&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; text_transform=&#8221;uppercase&#8221;]<div class=\"wpb_content_element \"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><header id=\"ut_header_6606bc737c0e8\" class=\"section-header  ut-no-title-linebreak-mobile ut-no-lead-linebreak-mobile pt-style-2 header-left header-tablet-left header-mobile-center element-with-custom-line-height\"><div class=\"element-with-custom-line-height\" ><h2 data-title=\"Jeff Kichaven\u2019s Story\"  data-responsive-font=\"section_title\" class=\"section-title  \"><span>Jeff Kichaven\u2019s Story<\/span><\/h2><\/div><\/header><\/div>[vc_column_text]Jeff Kichaven is wired to give back. He was on the receiving end of some dedicated giving early on. It was an example his mother and father set.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s filled with gratitude for the sacrifices his middle-class parents made so that he could have an education that would take him places. In 1966, for example, his parents pooled everything they had to buy a duplex in Beverly Hills, so that he and his younger brother could attend the schools in that city, known to be vastly superior to the schools in surrounding Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was just the start of it. Mom and Dad went on to put me through two of the greatest schools in the world \u2013 the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard Law. The economics were quite different from what they are today. My first year\u2019s tuition at Berkeley was $637.50. Harvard Law was $3,500 for the entire year, which was a lot of money to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His parents and brother made the cross-country trip to Cambridge in August 1977 to help set him up in his dorm room and see what Harvard was all about. At one point that weekend, Jeff\u2019s father suggested the two of them take a walk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ut-blockquote-left \"><blockquote><p>\u201cI believe, too, that we have the ability to take control over huge aspects of our lives, which is a lot of what mediation is all about \u2013 people making decisions as to how to handle their conflicts. The theme manifests itself again and again in my work. I think it explains why I do the work I do. To me, it\u2019s about helping people make better decisions. It\u2019s also about helping lawyers be better lawyers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDad was looking around at the old buildings, taking it all in when he said &#8212; I\u2019ll never forget it \u2013 &#8216;What an amazing thing: In two generations, our family has gone from my father selling vegetables from a pushcart on the streets of Chicago to now, my son is a student at Harvard Law.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy paternal grandparents had come here from what is now Ukraine and settled in Chicago. Dad\u2019s reflection was a profound statement about making it in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeff can\u2019t remember a time when he didn\u2019t have it in mind to be a lawyer. His best explanation is that he gravitated to it naturally. He didn\u2019t plan it so much as he was pulled toward it. At Beverly Hills High, he was both the editor of the student newspaper and a member of the debate team \u2013 verbal and persuasive pursuits that, as it happens, reinforced the gravitational pull law had on his young imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff\u2019s mother lived in the duplex in Beverly Hills for over 50 years, until she passed away in April 2017. Jeff sent his daughter and two sons to the finest private schools he could find, put them all through college and sent one on to graduate school. And he is enjoying the latest stage of parenthood &#8212; being a dad to three bright, engaged adult children, and grandpa to two grandsons.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff is in his third decade as a full-time, professional mediator. He believes deeply that everyone has the power to improve him or herself each day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe, too, that we have the ability to take control over huge aspects of our lives, which is a lot of what mediation is all about \u2013 people making decisions as to how to handle their conflicts. The theme manifests itself again and again in my work. I think it explains why I do the work I do. To me, it\u2019s about helping people make better decisions. It\u2019s also about helping lawyers be better lawyers.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;About me&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h6|font_size:25px|text_align:left|color:%23dddddd&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; text_transform=&#8221;uppercase&#8221;][vc_column_text]Jeff Kichaven is wired to give back. He was on the receiving end of some dedicated giving early on. It was an example his mother and father set. 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