Steven Corn

Steven Corn

Maryland Court Roster Mediator | Family, Entertainment & Intellectual Property Mediator | Rockville, Maryland
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Steven Corn is a Maryland court roster mediator, business affairs executive, and dispute resolution professional with more than 35 years of negotiation experience helping individuals, families, creators, and businesses resolve complex conflicts. As the founder of Metis Mediation Services, Steven combines transformative mediation principles with decades of executive-level negotiation experience to help parties reach practical, lasting agreements while preserving important relationships.

Before becoming a professional mediator, Steven spent more than 30 years in the music industry, negotiating thousands of business transactions involving artists, record labels, publishers, distributors, licensing, royalties, intellectual property, and entertainment contracts. His career includes leadership roles in music distribution, publishing, business affairs, and catalog management, including serving as CEO of an award-winning jazz label whose artists collectively earned five Grammy® Awards and seventeen Grammy® nominations.

This uncommon combination of mediation training and real-world commercial negotiation experience allows Steven to effectively resolve disputes involving family relationships, business conflicts, entertainment matters, contract disputes, intellectual property, healthcare, landlord-tenant issues, and community disagreements.
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Mediation Philosophy

Steven's practice is grounded in transformative and collaborative mediation. Rather than imposing solutions, he helps participants communicate more effectively, better understand one another's perspectives, and develop agreements they create themselves. His approach emphasizes self-determination, impartiality, confidentiality, and durable resolutions that often preserve personal and professional relationships while avoiding unnecessary litigation.

Whether working with divorcing spouses, business partners, artists, employers, or neighbors, Steven believes that sustainable agreements are achieved when people are empowered to resolve their own disputes through informed discussion and mutual understanding.
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Entertainment Industry Mediation

Steven is among the few mediators with extensive executive-level experience inside the music industry. Having negotiated thousands of entertainment transactions, he understands the legal, financial, and relationship dynamics unique to creative businesses.

His entertainment mediation practice includes:
• Artist and Manager Disputes
• Record Label Contract Disputes
• Music Publishing Agreements
• Royalty Accounting & Payment Disputes
• Copyright & Intellectual Property Conflicts
• Producer & Songwriter Agreements
• Catalog Ownership & Valuation
• Sample Clearance Issues
• Sync Licensing Disputes
• Name, Image & Likeness (NIL) Matters
• Band Partnership Disputes

Steven understands that entertainment disputes often involve long-term creative relationships where preserving future opportunities can be just as important as resolving the immediate disagreement.
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Family Mediation

Family mediation is one of Steven's primary areas of practice. He assists families in resolving divorce, parenting, custody, visitation, and related family disputes through respectful communication and practical problem-solving.

His objective is to help families reduce conflict, protect important relationships, and create agreements that place the long-term interests of parents and children at the center of the process.
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Professional Credentials

Steven is a Maryland court roster mediator and is accredited by the Maryland Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution (OADR). He serves on multiple Maryland court mediation rosters and maintains active involvement with leading mediation organizations, including:

• Maryland Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution (OADR)
• Maryland District Court Roster Mediator
• Maryland Circuit Court Roster Mediator
• Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County
• Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence (MPME)
• Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution
• American Bar Association – Section of Dispute Resolution
• Southern California Mediation Association

In addition to his mediation credentials, Steven is a Board Certified Independent Patient Advocate, providing him with additional experience resolving healthcare-related disputes and advocating for clients in highly sensitive matters.
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Why Clients Choose Steven Corn

Clients choose Steven because he combines decades of executive negotiation experience with a calm, impartial mediation style focused on communication, respect, and practical resolution. His ability to understand both the business and human dimensions of conflict enables parties to move beyond positions, preserve valuable relationships, and develop solutions that work long after mediation concludes.

Whether resolving a family dispute, a business disagreement, or a complex entertainment industry conflict, Steven provides a confidential, client-centered process designed to help parties move forward with confidence.
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