Gross, Jill

Jill Gross is Professor of Law, Director of Legal Skills and Director of the Investor Rights Clinic at Pace Law School.  She teaches and writes on dispute resolution and investor justice.  She is an arbitrator for FINRA Dispute Resolution, chaired PLI’s Securities Arbitration program in 2010 and 2011, was a public member of FINRA’s National Arbitration and Mediation Committee, and is current Chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Securities DR Committee.  Before entering legal education, Professor Gross was an attorney in several New York firms, representing clients in white collar criminal proceedings, securities arbitrations, and other commercial litigation.  She received her A.B. from Cornell University (Phi Beta Kappa) and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Grunfeld, Gay Crosthwait

Grunfeld is an AV-rated litigator, named a SuperLawyer in 2012 and one of the 75 top women litigators in California in 2011. A tenacious and skilled advocate and problem solver, Grunfeld became a named partner on July 1, 2012. Grunfeld specializes in complex litigation ranging from trade secrets to civil rights. Over the past year, she successfully concluded several highly favorable, confidential settlements, filed a high- profile wage and hour class action, and obtained significant relief for prisoners and parolees with disabilities.

Hagerott, Jacqueline

Jacqueline C. Hagerott, is the Manager of the Dispute Resolution Section for the Supreme Court of Ohio. In this role she serves and the mediator for the Supreme Court, consults with and advises local court staff regarding dispute resolution program planning, implementation and evaluation. She also analyzes problems and trends among court dispute resolution programs; advises mediation coordinators, judges and other court staff regarding dispute resolution policies and procedures. Her experience includes the practice of law, an associate deanship, course design and development and dispute resolution. She began mediating cases for Ohio courts in 1997. She has an A.A.S. degree in business management, a B.S. degree in accounting and a J.D. and a LL.M. degree in business with a concentration in dispute resolution. She is licensed in the State of Ohio, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the Supreme Court of the U.S. She is a national speaker and trainer on the topics of dispute resolution systems design, foreclosure mediation, preparing clients for mediation and is the former Chair of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Committee.

Hardiman, Tio

Tio Hardiman, Director for CeaseFire Illinois and Creator of the Violence Interrupter Initiative, has dedicated his life and career to community organizing for peace and social change. In 1999, Mr. Hardiman joined CeaseFire, an award-winning public health model that has been scientifically proven to reduce shootings and killings.   In 2008, under Tio’s direction, CeaseFire received additional funding from the State of Illinois to immediately expand from 5 to 15 communities and from 20 to 130 Outreach Workers and Violence Interrupters.  The Violence Interrupters are a specialty unit of violence intervention experts that work to mediate conflict on the “front-end.”  Their reputation and connections in the community provide them access to leaders and influential decision makers in street organizations.  As testament to the success of this program overall, homicides declined in Chicago by 25 percent in 2010, to a total of 436.  This was the fewest number of homicides in the city since 1965.

Hartgering, Bill

William E. Hartgering, Esq., a full-time mediator and arbitrator since transitioning from law practice in 1981, established the Chicago JAMS/ENDISPUTE office in 1982. His experience includes the resolution of over 1,000 matters arising in 50 states and foreign countries, appointments by federal and state judges in 10 states, co-mediations with a sitting federal judge and a variety of experts, panel arbitrations with former judges, as well as training with state, federal, and foreign governments in Asia and Europe.

Hatton, Melinda R.

Melinda “Mindy” Hatton is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel to the American Hospital Association (AHA).  In this position, she provides leadership on all legal matters for the AHA.  In addition to supervising advocacy-related litigation, she directly oversees the AHA’s work on medical privacy, antitrust, fraud and abuse and other related regulatory matters.   Prior to joining the AHA, Ms. Hatton was a partner at Hogan & Hartson where her areas of practice included antitrust, consumer protection, privacy and public policy issues.  Prior to that, she served as the Antitrust Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights. Ms. Hatton earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.  She received her master’s in public administration from the American University in Washington, D.C.  In 1988, Ms. Hatton received her law degree from Catholic University of America, also in Washington, where she was the recipient of numerous honors and awards.

Herman, Howard

Howard Herman is Director of the ADR Program for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, in San Francisco. He has worked as a mediator and developer of court-annexed ADR programs since 1985.  At the district court, Mr. Herman oversees the administration and ongoing development of the court's ADR Program; trains and supervises the hundreds of lawyers who serve as volunteer mediators, neutral evaluators, and arbitrators; and frequently serves as a mediator himself.  Since 1996, Mr. Herman also has taught negotiation and mediation at U.C. Hastings College of the Law.  He has trained judges, lawyers, and law students throughout the U.S., and in Guam, Germany, India, Jordan, Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Thailand.  In 2002, he was an inaugural recipient of the Robert F. Peckham Award for Excellence in ADR presented by the Ninth Circuit.  In 2011, he received the Mediation Society of San Francisco's Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Mediation. Mr. Herman is a member of the Executive Committee of the Section of Dispute Resolution, currently serving as Budget Officer.

Hinshaw, Art

Art Hinshaw’s research and teaching interests lie in the field of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), primarily mediation and negotiation. His research bridges ADR theory and practice, and his teaching responsibilities include the Lodestar Mediation Clinic and Negotiation among other ADR courses.   Professor Hinshaw is active in the ADR community having served on several academic and professional committees at the state and national levels.  Currently, he serves as a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Mediator Ethical Guidance.  Additionally, he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law and is a contributor to Indisputably, the ADR Prof Blog.  Outside of the ADR realm, Professor Hinshaw is a member of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct.   Professor Hinshaw joined the College of Law faculty after teaching at the University of Missouri School of Law and at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.  Before his academic career, he practiced law in Kansas City, Missouri.

Hoffman, David

David Hoffman is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator, and founder of Boston Law Collaborative, LLC.  He teaches the Mediation course at Harvard Law School and trains mediators at the Harvard Negotiation Institute.  He is past chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, and co-chairs the Section’s Collaborative Law Committee.  His firm, Boston Law Collaborative, won the Section’s “Lawyer as Problem Solver” award in 2009.  David published the book “Bringing Peace into the Room” (with Daniel Bowling) and is listed in the book “Best Lawyers in America” in five categories.  He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University.

Holland, Lauren S.

Judge Lauren Holland graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1978, Order of the Coif. She practiced law as a partner in her own law firm until she was elected to the Lane County District Court bench in 1992 and became a Circuit Court Judge in 1998.  She has also taught classes at the University of Oregon School of Law in Legal Ethics, Trial Practice and Insurance & Business Mediation.  As a trial judge on the court of general jurisdiction, she hears all civil and criminal cases. In addition, she is the Lane County Probate Judge, since 2001, and is on the Lane County Commercial Court where she hears complex commercial cases.  Judge Holland is a member of the Oregon Council on Court Procedure and the Governor's Task Force on Protective Proceedings.  She also serves on the Lane County Family Law Mediation Commission.     In collaboration with the University of Oregon School of Law, Judge Holland has helped facilitate the probate mediation training and institute the Probate Mediation Clinic for law students.

Hollander-Blumoff, Rebecca

Professor Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff focuses on law and psychology in the context of dispute resolution. Her interdisciplinary perspective on legal dispute resolution uses psychological research and insights to better understand the role of legal actors, systems, and norms. She also explores the relationship between human behavior and dispute resolution systems, particularly in the context of legal negotiation and civil procedure.  Her work has been selected for presentation at the Stanford–Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, the American Psychology–Law Society Annual Meeting, the Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, and the Junior Faculty Criminal Law Workshop.  Before becoming a law professor, she clerked for the Hon. Kimba M. Wood, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She also practiced law at Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP, a litigation firm in New York City specializing in white collar criminal defense. In addition to her undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, Professor Hollander-Blumoff holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from New York University, where she formerly served as an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program, as well as a research fellow at the Institute of Judicial Administration.

Holmes, Reginald

Regonald A. Holmes, Esq. is a multidisciplined and deeply experienced attorney and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) professional.   Since 1988, Mr. Holmes has served in many capacities within the ADR field as chair, sole and panel Arbitrator, Mediator, Referee, Private Judge or Judge pro tem in hundreds of complex disputes. Mr. Holmes has handled disputes from a variety of fields, such as Intellectual Property and Technology, Labor and Employment, Real Property and Construction, Financial, Entertainment, Sports, and Franchise, as well as International disputes. Subject matters have ranged widely, including software fraud, entertainment industry disputes, termination of distributorship, breach of sports contracts, patent infringement, race discrimination, sexual harassment, partnership dissolution, stock, securities and investor fraud, construction defect, breach of entertainment distribution contract, breach of surety and trustee obligation, identity theft, defamation, and imaging rights theft, software defect fraud and breach of international distribution rights. He is a frequent "Markman" hearing officer and discovery Referee. Besides handling disputes, Mr. Holmes is a frequent panelist and lecturer on ADR, private justice and technology topics for various bar and business organizations. He is a member of the AAA's Large Complex Case Panel (LCCP) and former chair of the Los Angeles B2B Advisory Committee.

Howard, Barbara J.

Barbara J. Howard is the principal of the law firm of Barbara J. Howard Co., L.P.A., a practice that focuses in family law.  It has been her sole focus for at least the last 27 years. She has been certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a Family Relations Law Specialist since it was first made available in 1999. Howard is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Collaborative Professionals. Howard is a Past President of the Ohio State Bar Association and a past president of the Cincinnati Bar Association. She presently serves on the Board of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor. She has served in the House of Delegates in the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1986. She has held a variety of positions in the ABA, currently serving as Chair of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Membership. She is also Ohio’s State Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. She has just completed six years of service as a member of the ABA Journal Board of Editors. She has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of Xavier University since 1995.

Howard, Sharon

Sharon Howard is the Mediation Services Director for the Employee Relations and Workforce Performance Division of the North Carolina Office of State Personnel. In 2004 she designed and implemented the North Carolina State Government Employee Mediation Program, and has been responsible for the overall administration of the program since that time.  A graduate of East Carolina University, Ms. Howard is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section and serves on the State Government Committee.

Jacksteit, Mary

The focus of Mary Jacksteit’s work with the Public Conversations Project is the deeply divided politics of the public square at all levels of governance. Drawing on PCP’s pioneering dialogue work she has worked with hot button issues related to human sexuality and animal rights disputes, and with community divisions related to social class, racial and economic differences.   She has consulted to efforts to bridge liberal-conservative-independent divides.   In the 1990’s Ms. Jacksteit directed the Network for Life and Choice project for Search for Common Ground, and after that, Collaboration DC, an effort to increase public participation and cooperative problem-solving to address contentious education and gentrification issues.  She has both facilitated and trained others to facilitate in numerous public engagement processes.  Reflecting her experience as a lawyer, mediator and arbitrator in the field of labor relations, Ms. Jacksteit also currently serves as Chair of the Federal Service Impasses Panel (a component of the Federal Labor Relations Authority) having been appointed by President Obama in 2009. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School and George Mason University’s School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.  Her home is in Takoma Park, Maryland just outside Washington, DC.

Jacobs, Joanna

Joanna Jacobs is Director of DOJ's Office of Dispute Resolution in the Office of Legal Policy.  The office provides legal advice and training for Department attorneys and develops policy relating to ADR use throughout the Department and in the US Attorneys' offices around the country.  She also provides Department briefings for foreign judges, attorneys and government officials from around the world and has provided ADR training in Eastern Europe, Russia and Pakistan.

Johannessen, Barbara

Barbara A. Johannessen is the President of Mediation Specialists, Inc.  Ms. Johannessen provides a broad range of conflict resolution services (mediation, arbitration, facilitation, conflict coaching, consensus building, and training) to agencies, organizations and consumers of Court services.  She serves as a contract mediator for the EEOC, the U.S.P.S., and Michigan’s Vocational Rehabilitation Services.  She is a SCAO approved lead trainer of the 40-hour General Civil Mediation training and co-trainer of the 40-hour Domestic Relations Mediation training.  She is listed on Court mediator rosters throughout Michigan for general civil, probate, and domestic relations mediation.  Ms. Johannessen is a member in good standing of the State Bars of Michigan and California.  She is listed in Super Lawyers and Top Lawyers.  She served on the Council of the ADR Section of the State Bar of Michigan and is a past-chair of the ADR Section of the State Bar and of the Oakland County Bar Association ADR Committee.  She was the recipient of the SBM ADR Section Distinguished Service Award in 2009 and the SE Michigan ACR Chapter’s Pioneer Award in 2012.  Ms. Johannessen is an adjunct Instructor for Wayne State University and University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.

Johnson, Marvin

Marvin E. Johnson is a nationally recognized mediator, arbitrator and trainer.  He is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution and serves on the JAMS panel of resolution experts.   Two Presidents of the United States, a Secretary of the United States Department of State, a Governor of Maryland, and the Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals have recognized Mr. Johnson's dispute resolution expertise by appointing him to various dispute resolution panels and boards.  Mr. Johnson is a former member of the ABA's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession and of the Council of the ABA's Section of Dispute Resolution, the International Academy of Mediators, and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution/Association for Conflict Resolution.  He is a member of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, the National Bar Association, and the CPR Institute's National Task Force on Diversity.

Johnson, India

Ms. Johnson was appointed President and CEO of the AAA/ICDR by the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association. She will be put before the Board of the organization for election as President/CEO, Board Member at the regular Annual Meeting of the Association in May of 2013. As Chief Executive Officer, she has responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the organization as well as strategic initiatives. As senior vice president, she had responsibility for AAA’s Construction and Commercial Divisions and their operations, development and outreach. She also has had responsibility for the AAA’s Marketing Department, Public Relations, Claims Programs and eCommerce activities. Ms. Johnson has participated in numerous organizations and efforts supporting alternative dispute resolution and has assisted various state legislatures, courts and other organizations in learning about or implementing dispute resolution programs. She has made many presentations to business executives, advocates and neutrals regarding arbitration and mediation and has authored articles for both legal and business audiences. Over the years, Ms. Johnson has mediated a number of AAA arbitration cases to settlement and has also served on arbitrator panels on non-AAA small claims cases. Her many years of facilitating arbitrations include working with thousands of lawyers on large commercial cases involving up to several billion dollars, numerous individual parties and resolution of very difficult procedural issues.

Joubin-Bret, Anna

Anna Joubin-Bret is a partner in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Practice, where she primarily focuses on representing and advising sovereign States in investor-State dispute settlement. Anna has considerable experience with high-level public international law and international arbitration. She provides counsel to governments on international investment policies and law, and also focuses on international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution/mediation.

Jury, Jeff

Jeff Jury is a practicing attorney, mediator, arbitrator and teacher.  He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Rockford (Illinois) College and a J.D. from Baylor Law School.   Jeff has a diverse (non-family law) ADR practice covering many areas of law.  He regularly teaches Advanced ADR at Baylor Law School, and has taught ADR at the University of Texas Law School and the Texas State University Graduate Program in Legal Studies; and Arbitration at Southern Methodist University.  He has written chapters for books published by the ABA Dispute Resolution Section and the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, and served for five years on the Texas Pattern Jury Charge Committee responsible for drafting jury forms for business, insurance, consumer and employment cases.  Jeff has served as President of the Dispute Resolution Center in Austin, and is on the Governing Council of the State Bar of Texas Construction Law Section.  He was honored with the Professionalism Award by the Austin Bar Association and the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism in 2009.  He is a baseball nut, and once hit a 750-foot home run to straightaway center field on his kids’ Wii.

Kamminga, Peter

Peter Kamminga (LLM. Ph.D.) is Associate Professor at Amsterdam University and Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Law School (PON). He mediates and consults on legal issues and complex multi-party disputes internationally. In 2011, he received the Weinstein Fellowship from the JAMS Foundation for his accomplishment in the field of ADR. He is co-chair of the ABA IC committee on the Future of ADR. He can be reached at pkamminga@law.harvard.edu or y.p.kamminga@vu.nl

Kane, Chris

Chris Kane is a mediator, engineer and a lawyer, with more than 35 years experience including starting his own consulting businesses, private law practice, working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, IBM Corporation, George Washington University, and the engineering and construction industry. He has written and spoken extensively on conflict resolution and contract. He has prepared and administered project dispute resolution programs and resolved numerous complicated disputes.   Chris has extensive experience dealing with all methods of dispute resolution including dispute review boards, mediations, arbitrations, mini-trials and litigation in state and federal courts. He has served on the American Arbitration Association’s Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators in 1994. He has helped resolve all types of construction contract disputes valued from $5,000 to $40 million, involving projects valued over $250 million.

Karnes II, Evan

Evan B. Karnes, II is the founder of Karnes Law Chartered, a Chicago based law firm which concentrates its practice in litigation, risk management, mediation and arbitration. Evan’s practice includes representation of clients in state and administrative agencies throughout the Midwest and Federal courts and administrative agencies. He represents Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs and individuals in prosecution and defense of commercial and tort litigation, company or entity investigations, contract negotiation, contract assessment and risk control. Evan works as a private neutral arbitrator and mediator in commercial, tort and contract disputes. Evan has taught arbitration at DePaul University College of Law, represented parties in Labor and Commercial Arbitration disputes and mediated claims between and among various Insurers and claimants in commercial, labor and tort matters.

Kaster, Laura A.

Laura A. Kaster, Chair of the NJSBA Dispute Resolution Section, Fellow-elect of the College of Commercial Arbitrators,  Executive Committee member of the Garibaldi Inn of Court, Co-Editor in Chief of NY Dispute Resolution Lawyer, the journal of the NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section, and adjunct professor of ADR at Seton Hall Law School, has spoken and written widely on arbitration and mediation and particularly on judgment.

Katsh, Ethan

Ethan Katsh is Founder and Co-director of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution. He is Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, author of several books on law and technology, co-author, with Janet Rifin, of the first book on online dispute resolution, and co-editor, with Wahab and Rainey, of the recently published Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice. He is the author of numerous law review articles on ODR, has been visiting professor at Brandeis University, and served as the 2011 Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Haifa School of Law. Further information at http://www.odr.info/katsh

Katz, Deborah

Deborah Katz is a conflict management specialist, who also guides organizations toward achieving a proactive, strategic systems approach to conflict by building skills, processes, internal support, and strategies for ongoing assessment.  Deborah is a lawyer who has led employee relations initiatives and developed conflict management programs at the U.S.Transportation Safety Administration, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission.  She has also served as chief counsel to a board member at the National Labor Relations Board.  Developing, implementing and maintaining collaborative multi-disciplinary conflict management systems are her specialty.

Kichaven, Jeff

Jeff Kichaven is an independent mediator with a nationwide practice, based in Los Angeles.  He is an Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a member of the American Law Institute and has been named California LawyerAttorney of the Year in ADR.  His views on mediation have been cited in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.  He is also a past Member of the Council of the Section of Dispute Resolution.

Kirsh, Harvey

Harvey J. Kirsh is a recognized authority in construction law. He has been designated as a “Certified Specialist in Construction Law” (C.S.), and has almost 40 years’ experience in the arbitration, mediation and litigation of complex construction claims and disputes arising out of significant infrastructure, engineering, industrial, commercial, and institutional projects, both domestically and internationally. He has resolved multi-million dollar claims and disputes dealing with delay, loss of productivity, impact and acceleration, construction and design deficiencies and errors, scope-of-work issues, professional liability and negligence, economic loss, tendering and procurement issues, and lien claims. Mr. Kirsh holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto), and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. As an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, he created and taught a course entitled “From Blueprints to Buildings: Legal Issues in the Construction Industry”. He was the Founding President and is a Governor of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers, and has the distinction of also being a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers.

Kucinski, Melissa A.

Melissa Kucinski is an attorney-mediator.  She is a member of the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law, was an attorney advisor to the Hague Conference's Sixth Special Commission meeting, and is currently serving as chair of the ABA Section of International Law's International Family Mediation Task Force.  She has written several articles on the topic of mediating international parental child abduction cases, and has presented on the topic to the Centre for Family Law and Practice, the ABA, the International Academy of Matrimonial Practice, the International Law Association, and International Social Services.  She is currently teaching International Family Law at the George Washington University School of Law.  For more information on Melissa's credentials, and for copies of her articles, please visit her firm's website at www.globalfamilymediation.com.

Lack, Jeremy

Jeremy Lack is an independent lawyer and ADR Neutral, certified by the International Mediation Institute (IMI).  He is a JAMS International Panelist and specializes in international commercial dispute prevention and resolution processes.  He qualified as an English barrister in 1989 and as a US Attorney-at-Law in 1990 (New York state, various federal courts, and the US Patent and Trademark Office). He is also a Door Tenant with QUADRANT CHAMBERS in London, counsel to PEARL COHEN ZEDEK LATZER LLP in New York, and was a partner with ALTENBURGER LTD legal + tax in Switzerland.  Jeremy obtained an MA (Oxon) from Lincoln College, Oxford University, in Jurisprudence and Physiological Sciences in 1988 and postgraduate diplomas in EU competition law (1996) and comparative copyright laws (2006) from Kings College, London University.  He handles negotiations, mediations, conciliations, arbitrations, litigations and mixed ADR hybrid processes in a wide range of fields.  Jeremy has particular expertise in international business, intellectual property, life sciences, joint ventures, private equity, family businesses and trusts.  Jeremy has been accredited by several mediation institutions in Europe and in the USA (e.g., CEDR, CMAP, CPR, ICC, ICDR, INTA, IMI, JAMS, SCCM/SKWM/CSMC, Result ADR, WIPO).

Lande, John

John Lande is the Isidor Loeb Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and former director of its LLM Program in Dispute Resolution.   He received his J.D. from Hastings College of Law and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   He began mediating in 1982 in California.   He was a fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Director of the Mediation Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School.  His work focuses on dispute systems design including publications analyzing how lawyering and mediation practices transform each other, business lawyers’ and executives’ opinions about litigation and ADR, designing court-connected mediation programs, improving the quality of mediation practice, the “vanishing trial,” planned early negotiation, and improving legal education.  The CPR Institute has honored his publications.   The ABA recently published his book, Lawyering with Planned Early Negotiation: How You Can Get Good Results for Clients and Make Money.  You can download his publications at http://www.law.missouri.edu/lande/.

Landes, William

William Landes joined the faculty of the Law School in 1974 and was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Law and Economics in the Law School from 1992 to 2009. Mr. Landes has written widely on the application of economics and quantitative methods to law and legal institutions, including torts, intellectual property, judicial behavior, legal decision-making, and art law. His most recent book, The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (2003) with Judge Richard Posner (Senior Lecturer at the Law School), applies economic analysis to the many legal doctrines in trademark, copyright, trade secret, and patent law. Landes has been an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics (1975–1991) and the Journal of Legal Studies (1991–2000), is past president of the American Law and Economics Association, and is a member of the American Economic Association, the Mont Pelerin Society, and the Council of Economic Advisers of the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Larson, David

Professor David Larson is a Senior Fellow at Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution, ADR and Technology, Torts, Employment Discrimination Law, Employment Law, and Labor Law. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment" (CCH Inc.), served as an arbitrator for the Omaha Tribe, was a Hearing Examiner for the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission, and currently is an independent arbitrator.  His recent articles have focused on technology mediated dispute resolution (TMDR), a term that includes more technologies than the phrase online dispute resolution (ODR).

LaRue, Homer

Homer C. La Rue is Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C.  He directs the Law School’s Mediation Clinic and directs the ADR curriculum for the Law School.  Professor La Rue is a member of the JAMS ®The Resolution Experts roster of arbitrators and mediators in Washington, D.C.   He is Past-Chair of the Council of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and past president of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), now the Association for Conflict Resolution.  He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.  He is a Fellow in the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers, as well as, a Fellow in and a member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators.  He has lectured extensively in the dispute resolution field to a variety of bar, business, and labor groups, both domestically and internationally.

Lash, Alan D.

A founding partner of the Miami, Florida-based boutique litigation firm, Lash & Goldberg LLP, Alan Lash has more than 25 years of complex business litigation experience.  He serves regional and national clients in a variety of industries including healthcare, retail, banking, real estate, and telecommunications.  Alan has prosecuted and defended numerous high-profile cases, and has obtained multi-million dollar arbitration awards, judgments and settlements in high stakes business disputes throughout the United States.  He is a frequent lecturer, and has authored articles in local and national media addressing complex and emerging business litigation issues.  Alan is certified by the Florida Bar as a specialist in health law and recognized by Best Lawyers in America for both commercial litigation and health law.  Alan also serves as an Arbitrator for the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and has served on and chaired numerous arbitration panels.  His practice as an arbitrator for the AAA focuses on the alternative resolution of commercial disputes, including those in the healthcare industry.  He serves on the AAA National Healthcare Dispute Resolution Advisory Council.  Alan was selected as the ALM/Daily Business Review’s Most Effective Lawyer for 2012 in the Arbitration category.

Lawrence, James

Jim Lawrence, a fellow in the ABA’s College of Labor & Employment Lawyers and certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a Labor & Employment Law Specialist, is a partner in the Cincinnati, Ohio office of Frost Brown Todd LLC and heads its dispute resolution practice group.  His career has focused on representation of employers in collective bargaining negotiations and in the representation of employers in employment litigation and dispute resolution.  He teaches negotiation and mediation as an Adjunct Professor at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law.  Jim graduated from The Ohio State University in 1962 and its College of Law in 1965.  For five years he served as trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board at its Regional Office in Cincinnati.  Jim is listed in The best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who in America and Chambers USA and is a Fellow of the ABA’s College of Labor & Employment Lawyers.  Jim is a graduate of the Harvard Negotiation Project and served as a teaching fellow at Harvard.

Lawrence, Kerry

Mr. Lawrence is a member of the law firm of Herrig & Vogt., where his practice focuses almost exclusively on construction issues, with heavy emphasis on payment issues, liens, bond claims and dispute resolution. The firm represents contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, owners, sureties and design professionals. Mr. Lawrence co-authored with Jeff Smyth the proposed “Construction Lien Act” in 1987 that ultimately was enacted in modified form in 1992 as the current RCW 60.04. Mr. Lawrence is an experienced mediator and arbitrator of construction disputes and has served on a number of dispute resolution boards for the University of Washington and Washington State University; and as a Project Neutral for Seattle School District projects. He is a Past-President of the North American Region of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, chaired the Foundation’s Education and Training Committee for seven years, and has been a member of the Foundation’s worldwide Executive Committee. He represents the DRB Foundation on the National Construction Dispute Resolution Committee advising the American Arbitration Association on construction ADR. He earned his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy, West Point, and his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

Leahy, William

William B. Leahy graduated from The Ohio State University, and The Ohio State University College of Law.  Bill served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps.  Bill joined Thompson Hine LLP in 1973 where he served as a trial lawyer with emphasis on products liability; wrongful death; other personal injury and torts; commercial disputes; insurance coverage disputes; construction litigation and arbitration.  Bill served as chair of its ethics committee. He also formed an ADR practice group and served on its lawyer personnel and diversity committees. In 2003, Bill joined Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP where he continued his practice as a litigator and mediator. He chaired its ADR group; chaired its conflicts/ethics committee; chaired its litigation group associate training committee; and served on its diversity committee. Bill serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, teaching pre-trial practice and alternative dispute resolution. He is also a mediator, arbitrator and legal ethics consultant.   Bill has served as a mediator and arbitrator in a wide variety of litigated cases and other disputes, involving wrongful death, products liability, other personal injury, legal malpractice, commercial, property, construction and insurance coverage.

LeBaron, Michelle

Professor Michelle LeBaron is a dispute resolution scholar and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is an award-winning teacher whose current work focuses on how creative and expressive arts transform conflicts across cultures and foster resilience. With advanced degrees in law and psychotherapy, Michelle’s interdisciplinary and accessible books span diverse practice and geographical contexts. Titles include Bridging Troubled Waters, Bridging Cultural Conflict, Conflict Across Cultures and the forthcoming The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience from the American Bar Association. Previously, Professor LeBaron served on faculty at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Lee, Serena

Serena K. Lee is currently Of Counsel at Gleam Law, a small firm specializing in IP law in Seattle, WA.  She was the former Vice President of the American Arbitration Association's regional office in Seattle in 2006-2011. Serena is a member of the NY state bar, the WA State Bar ADR Section, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). She is also a board member for the Asian Bar of Washington (ABAW), and is currently serving as the vice-chair of the membership committee and the co-chair of the Young Lawyers Committee for the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution.  Serena served as a guest co-editor for the special ADR edition of the May 2010 edition of the Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and speaks regularly on topics related to alternative dispute resolution. Serena earned her B.A. degrees in Communication and Political Science from the University of Washington, and her J.D. degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she also received her mediator certification through the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution.

Lefkow, Joan

Joan Humphrey Lefkow was appointed on September 1, 2000 by President Bill Clinton as a judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  Prior to this appointment, she served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge and a United States Magistrate Judge, beginning in 1982.  Judge Lefkow previously worked in government and public interest practice, including as Executive Director of the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation; an attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, and an Administrative Law Judge with what is now the Illinois Human Rights Commission.  She was a law clerk to the late Judge Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Judge Lefkow has been an instructor at the University of Miami Law School, a lecturer or panelist at numerous bar association seminars and law school programs, and has written several law review and law journal articles.

Levy, Robert

Robert Levy is a United States magistrate judge in Brooklyn, New York.  He is the court’s ADR Oversight Judge and is responsible for the design and operation of its court-annexed mediation and arbitration programs. He was a Consultant in Mediation for the Federal Judicial Center (“FJC”) and served on the ADR Staffing Formula Working Group of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.  Judge Levy has assisted other federal district courts in the design and development of court-annexed mediation programs and has provided training in mediation and court ADR design for judges and lawyers overseas. He is a founding member of the International Conference of Mediation for Justice (CIMJ).  Appointed to the FJC’s Magistrate Judge Education Committee, Judge Levy is a member of the faculty that helps train newly appointed magistrate judges in subjects including mediation. Judge Levy is an adjunct professor at Columbia, New York University, and Brooklyn law schools and has taught international human rights in Bulgaria, China, and Germany.  He is the co-author of The Rights of People With Mental Disabilities and has conducted numerous investigations for Human Rights Watch and Disability Rights International. Judge Levy is a graduate of Harvard College and NYU Law School.

Lewis, Michael

Michael K. Lewis, Esq. is widely recognized for his extraordinary ability to resolve the most complex disputes in virtually every area of law.  He has successfully mediated and arbitrated complex, multi-part, high profile matters in a wide variety of areas including business/commercial, public policy, employment, environment, and governmental matters.  Lewis has advised organizations as an AR consultant, including the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, National Institute of Corrections, National Association of Attorneys General, federal agencies, federal and local courts and law firms and companies.  Representative matters include disputes of nine staff members alleging employment discrimination; dispute involving the expansion of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport; dispute involving the closing of clinical services by a large hospital; dispute surrounding the destruction of a producing gas well by a coal mining company; dispute regarding the cleanup of the HOD landfill among 15 public and private parties; complex reinsurance dispute for the U.S. District Court in New Jersey; series of disputes arising out of the implementation of a consent decree involving the care and treatment of juvenile delinquents; and disputes arising out of the purchase of an apartment building and its subsequent conversion to condominiums.

Lieberman, Amy

Amy Lieberman is a lawyer/mediator who has been mediating and resolving employment disputes for over 10 years.  Since 2001, Amy has been bringing her skills to others in her keynotes, breakout sessions and mediation sessions.  One of the "Best Lawyers in America" and a "Southwest Superlawer" in ADR, this experienced and sought-after mediator, trainer, speaker and author enlightens and brings opposing parties together to ease tensions, protect capital, and restore balance.  Amy has mediated close to 1,000 employment disputes.  She embraces both the business and personal aspects of conflict and enables parties to "get it out, get it over and get back to business."

Little, Andy

Andy Little is a mediator and mediation trainer from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He chaired the legislative and rule drafting projects for the mediation programs in superior court, family court, and in probate and guardianship cases and other proceedings before the clerks. Mr. Little is serving his fourth term on the Dispute Resolution Commission and has been appointed its Chair by the Chief Justice. Mr. Little is a graduate of Davidson College (’66), Union Theological Seminary (’70), and UNC School of Law (’75). He practiced law in North Carolina for 17 years as a civil litigator before becoming a full time mediator in 1992. He is the lead trainer for the 40 hour civil trial court and family/divorce training programs offered by his firm Mediation, Inc. His one-day advanced mediation training on the recurring problems in civil trial court mediation has been attended by certified mediators throughout North Carolina and other states and was the basis for his book, Making Money Talk: How to Mediate Insured Claims and Other Monetary Disputes, which was published by the American Bar Association in 2007. Mr. Little’s e-mail address is andy@mediationincnc.com and his website is www.mediationincnc.com.

Lock, Justin

Justin Lock presently serves as a Conciliation Specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service ("CRS"), in the Chicago Regional Office, which serves a six state region: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. These states contain some unique demographics including America's largest Arab American population, the largest centralized Hmong population outside of Asia, the largest Somali American population, and the largest community of Burmese refugees. As a conciliation specialist, he has mediated in homes, church basements, police departments, and a Buddhist temple. Prior to joining CRS, Justin served as a legal researcher and editor contributing to two manuscript son the Kosovo Liberation Army and determination of status of Kosovo. He also served as a legal observer to the Caprivi high Treason Trial in Windhoek, Namibia.

Lopich, Lorraine

Lorraine Lopich is a director of Collaborative Lawyers Pty Ltd and a director of Mediate Today Pty Ltd. She is a Nationally Accredited Mediator, Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner and Arbitrator who has extensive experience in workplace and human relations law, general commercial law and family law. She is a member of the litigation Intervention panel, property dispute panel and early intervention panel of the Family Dispute Resolution Unit, Family Law Division, Legal Aid NSW, and a member of the Shellharbour City Council Conduct Review Committee and a Panel mediator for the Law Society of NSW. She is also an international trainer, author of Australian Family Law: Sections; Collaborative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Family Relationship Centres published by Lexis/Nexis as well as papers published by dispute resolution associations including LEADR and ADRB.

Lopich, Robert

Robert Lopich  is a Sydney (Australia) based Business / Commercial Collaborative Lawyer and Nationally Accredited Mediator. He is the author and co-author of articles published by professional organizations including the American Bar Association. He has presented at numerous ADR and legal conferences including "Meitheal, Cork, Ireland, May 2008; the 9th National Mediation Conference in Perth Australia(2008); 9th Annual Conference of the International Academy of Collaborative Professional in New Orleans (2008). He is a regular CLE presenter for the Sydney College of Law. Robert is a director of MediateToday Pty Ltd, Collaborative Lawyers Pty Ltd, and US based Global Collaborative Law Council. He is a member of the Board of the National Mediation Conference, LEADR, Collaborative Professionals (NSW) Inc. (President); Australian Dispute Resolution Association (ADRA); American Bar Association – Section of Dispute Resolution and Collaborative Law Sub-committee; International Academy of Collaborative Professionals and the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum.

Love, Lela

Lela Porter Love is Professor of Law and Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She started one of the first law school mediation clinics in the U.S.; regularly conducts mediation and arbitration training programs, teaching both nationally and internationally; and has an active practice as a neutral, ranging from community disputes to complex litigated matters.  She has written widely on the topic of dispute resolution, including co-authoring three law school textbooks, and mediated a simulated product liability dispute for COURT TV.  She co-authored, with Joseph Stulberg, The Middle Voice: Mediating Conflict Successfully and has recently co-edited, with Eric Galton, Stories Mediators Tell. She is a past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution.  Both the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and the International Academy of Mediators have presented her with Lifetime Achievement Awards.  She received her B.A. from Harvard University, M.Ed. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and J.D. from Georgetown University Law School.

Ludi, Celia

Celia A. Ludi is the Director of the First Judicial District Court’s Court Constituent Services Division, which was created in 2007 to consolidate the Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution and Pro Se services.  Celia graduated in 1984 from the University of New Mexico School of Law, where she served as Recent Developments Editor of the Natural Resources Journal. She first trained as a mediator in 1994.  After practicing in both the public and private sectors, Celia joined the Court staff in 2004 as ADR Program Coordinator.  She serves on the Statewide ADR Commission and has chaired several key committees, is active in the New Mexico State Bar ADR Committee, and has been a frequent presenter on ADR-related topics.  Celia and David Levin are founding members of the New Mexico Court Services Consortium, which provides professional peer support for court administrators charged with implementing the ADR and self-help missions of their respective courts. She also teaches regularly in the Santa Fe Community College Paralegal Studies Program.

Lum, Grande

Mr. Grande H. Lum is the current Director of Community Relations Service (“CRS) and was nominated by President Obama and confirmed to a four year term by the United States Senate on June 29, 2012.  Mr. Lum brings extensive expertise in dispute resolution and is well known as a visionary and thought leader within the dispute resolution field, and has broad experience creating efficient, high-performing organizations.  Mr. Lum’s experience, acquired over the last twenty years, includes mediation, facilitation, training and leading dispute resolution organizations.  During this time, he has also worked with a wide range of individuals, groups and organizations, including educators, community leaders, government officials, attorneys, students, law enforcement, business executives, diplomats and scientists.  Before joining CRS, Mr. Lum served as the Director of the HUBZone Program at the Small Business Administration, and was a clinical professor at the University of California Hastings School of the Law, where he directed its Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. He is the founder of Accordence, a dispute resolution training firm; a principal of ThoughtBridge, a mediation firm; and a partner with the consulting firm Conflict Management Incorporated.  He has also been an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and co-manager of the ADR externship program at Stanford Law School. His published works include The Negotiation Fieldbook, which is currently in its second edition.  Mr. Lum received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

MacLeod, Carrie

Carrie MacLeod, Ph.D. candidate, has worked in the context of peace and reconciliation programs in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and with community health, education and environmental projects throughout India and Central America. At the European Graduate School in Switzerland she is on the Faculty of the MA Program in Expressive Arts in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding and is the Director of the International Centre for Arts in Peacebuilding. In Canada, Carrie is the Research Director of the Dancing at the Crossroads Project at the University of British Columbia and coordinates refugee resettlement programs for Kinbrace Community Society. Carrie is the co-editor of the forthcoming book The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience to be published by the American Bar Association.

Madison, James

James R. (Jim) Madison is a member of the State Bar of California who functions primarily as an arbitrator and mediator.  He is also serves as a special master, early neutral evaluator, discovery referee, dispute review board member and as a standby neutral to facilitate resolution of disputes on-the-job.  He specializes in construction, employment and other business disputes.  Madison is a member of the Large Complex Case, Employment, International and Mediator Panels of the American Arbitration Association.  He is a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators; a member of the California Academy of Distinguished Neutrals; a past president of the California Dispute Resolution Council, which advocates for fair and accessible ADR processes; and immediate past chair of the California State Bar ADR Committee.  In addition to numerous other writings, he is the principal author of three CDRC amicus curiae briefs to the California Supreme Court supporting mediation confidentiality.  He is an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Francisco Law School, where he teaches arbitration, and an instructor in trial advocacy at Stanford University Law School as well as at USF.  He received both a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an L.L.B. from Stanford.

Manderson, Katie

M. Katherine Manderson (Katie) is currently an ADR Specialist at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) where she manages the ADR program for both Foreign Service and Civil Service employees on behalf of the Office of Civil Rights and Diversity.  Prior to joining USAID she held a similar position at the Department of State.  She has thirteen years of experience as a mediator and is a trained facilitator and conflict coach.  Ms. Manderson received her M.A in Conflict Resolution from the University of Denver with a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution.  In her free time she is an avid scuba diver, photographer, and chef.

Marshall, Koschina

Koschina L. Marshall is an experienced mediator of many diverse contractual disputes, the former Acting Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas responsible for Dispute Resolution Conferences, and currently a prosecutor in the Attorney-General’s Office, Nassau, The Bahamas and an adjunct Associate Professor at The University of the West Indies/College of The Bahamas Law school, teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution.   She holds a  B.A., with honors in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, LLB., with honors from the University of the West Indies, M.A., in Curriculum and Instruction, with distinction from St. Thomas University and an LLM., in Dispute Resolution from the University of Missouri at Columbia.  She has extensive training in ADR at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, and is a certified mediator, trainer and conflict resolver.   She is the former Co-Chairperson of the Public Outreach Sub-Committee of the Mediation Section of the ABA and presently a Vice Chair of the International Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA and the International Outreach person for the ABA DR Section’s Mediation Week.

Martinez, Janet

Janet Martinez (BS, JD, MPA, PhD) is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program at Stanford Law School, where she teaches negotiation, advanced negotiation, ADR, and dispute system design. Ms. Martinez previously practiced corporate law for ten years in San Francisco before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Cambridge, she did teaching and research at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Business School and Law School, and was Senior Associate with the Consensus Building Institute (CBI). At CBI, she worked to develop and conduct training courses for public and private clients, and to facilitate policy dialogues for the World Trade Organization, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the United Nations, each of which involved senior officials from those organizations together with representatives of industry and nongovernmental organizations. With Stephanie Smith, she wrote An Analytic Framework for Dispute Systems Design, and with Smith, Lisa Blomgren Bingham, is writing a textbook on teaching dispute system design.

Mastin, Deborah

Deborah has represented local government agencies for over 35 year as in-house counsel, including the $6 billion expansion of Miami International Airport and the $2 billion expansion of the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, performing arts centers, museums, co-generation facilities, transportation facilities, and computer technology.  She is a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers, and is the President-Elect of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, Region 1 (USA and Canada.)  She is an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association large complex case panels, and is a neutral on the International Centre of Dispute Resolution panel.  She is a faculty for American Arbitration Association University.  She graduated from Northeastern University School of Law and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Masucci, Deborah

Deborah works for American International Group (AIG) where from 2003 through 2012 she has been responsible for the strategic use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and increasing the alternative methods of appropriate dispute resolution used within the Claims Organization.  Most recently she is implementing the company’s employee dispute resolution program. She is an acknowledged expert on alternative dispute resolution who speaks regularly on the topic before legal and business organizations. She is the immediate past Chair of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section. She serves on the Board of the International Mediation Institute and has been involved with their Task Force for Mediation Advocacy Credentialing. She is a member of the International Arbitration Club of New York. She is a Board member for Access ADR, an organization committed to Diversity in ADR. Deborah is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section. She also served on the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession.

Matschullat, Dale

Dale L. Matschullat concentrates his practice in general litigation, emphasizing mediation and early dispute resolution advocacy and mediation. He offers clients the experience and perspectives of having served as General Counsel of two Fortune 500 companies with cumulative experience of 30 years. Prior to joining Schiff Hardin, Mr. Matschullat was General Counsel of Newell Rubbermaid Inc. for more than 20 years. From 2007-2010, he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary From 1989-2001, Mr. Matschullat was Vice President and General Counsel and held other leadership positions in the corporation. During his tenure there, he directed worldwide mergers and acquisitions and dispositions, as well as major litigation involving intellectual property, product liability, employee benefits, and a wide range of other disputes, including many cases that were landmark decisions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Matschullat was Vice President Legal and Human Resources, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Allis-Chalmers Corporation.

Maxwell, Jr., Lawrence

Lawrence R. Maxwell, Jr. is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator and practitioner of collaborative law in Dallas. Larry was chair of the committee that drafted the Texas Uniform Collaborative Law Act. He was thebe Section of Dispute Resolution Advisor to the Uniform Law Commission's Drafting Committee that drafted the original Uniform Collaborative Law Act. He currently serves as co-chair of the Section’s Collaborative Law Committee. Larry was a co-founder and currently serves as chair of the State Bar of Texas Collaborative Law Section. Hews a co-founder and is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Global Collaborative Law Council. He has authored numerous articles and has made presentations on collaborative law nationally and internationally. He may be reached at lmaxwell@adr-attorney.

Mayer, Bernard

Bernie Mayer, Ph.D., Professor of Dispute Resolution, The Werner Institute, Creighton University, and Professor of the Practice at the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame has facilitated many complex environmental an organizational disputes, interpersonal conflicts, public decision-making processes, and family disputes. Bernie is a founding partner of CDR Associates, a pioneering conflict intervention firm, in Boulder, Colorado. He is the author of many books and articles including The Dynamics of Conflict: A  Guide to Engagement an Intervention; Beyond Neutrality: Confronting the Crisis in Conflict Resolution, and Staying With Conflict: A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes.

Mazur, Cynthia

Cynthia Mazur is the ADR Director for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  Before 1999 Cindy was the Associate General Counsel supervising FEMA’s disaster attorneys.  She has a PhD in conflict resolution (2011) from George Mason’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.  Since 1991 she has been mediating family cases for the D.C. Superior Court and arbitrating legal malpractice and fee dispute cases for the D.C. Bar.  Cindy completed a Teaching Fellowship at Georgetown Law, supervising prisoner civil rights and criminal cases, and earning an L.L.M. in Appellate Advocacy.  She practiced employment law for Akin, Gump, Straus, Hauer & Feld after completing a Fourth Circuit Clerkship.

McAdoo, Bobbi

Bobbi McAdoo is a Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law where she founded the Dispute Resolution Institute.

McClintock, Martha K.

Martha K. McClintock is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where she holds academic appointments in Psychology, Neurobiology and Evolutionary Biology.  The Founding Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology, her research programs focus on the dynamic interactions among social behavior, the brain, hormones and gene regulation. Recently she has discovered that social isolation increases cancer growth, accelerates aging and shortens the lifespan, an effect mediated by stress hormones.  She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Menicucci, Margaret

Margaret Menicucci is an attorney, mediator and facilitator. Drawing from her environmental law experience, she has focused on facilitating natural resource projects, working recently with diverse stakeholder groups developing rule recommendations for major river basins. She also mediates two-party conflicts. As an adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Law, she has taught negotiation, multiparty negotiation in environmental and energy matters, and dispute resolution in government.  She is a member of the Roster of Neutrals at the US Institute of Environmental Conflict Resolution and a volunteer mediator at the local Dispute Resolution Center.

Meyerson, Bruce

Bruce E. Meyerson is a mediator, arbitrator, and trainer in Phoenix, Arizona.  He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center (1972) where he was an Editor of the Law Journal.  Mr. Meyerson began his practice as the Executive Director of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest.  He served on the Arizona Court of Appeals for five years and has been General Counsel of Arizona State University.  From 1990 through 2000, Mr. Meyerson practiced commercial and employment litigation in Phoenix.  He is a Past Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the State Bar of Arizona ADR Section. He is on the Commercial and Employment Panels of the American Arbitration Association and arbitration panel of the National Arbitration Forum.  He is an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University College of Law teaching courses in all aspects of dispute resolution.  He is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, the International Academy of Mediators and the College of Commercial Arbitrators.  He serves as a board member of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, the Arizona Humanities Council and the City of Phoenix Civil Service Board.

Moffitt, Michael

Before joining the Oregon law faculty in 2001, Michael Moffitt served as the clinical supervisor for the mediation program at Harvard Law School and taught negotiation at Harvard Law School and at the Ohio State University College of Law. Following a federal judicial clerkship, he spent several years with Conflict Management Group, consulting on negotiation and dispute resolution projects around the world. Professor Moffitt has published more than twenty scholarly articles on mediation, negotiation, and civil procedure. He co-edited The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005), an award-winning compilation of 31 original chapters by leading scholars and practitioners in the field. He also co-authored the innovative, student-focused book, Dispute Resolution: Examples & Explanations (Aspen 2008).

Moore Facciola, Tamra

Ms. Facciola is an adjunct faculty member at the ASU College of Law in Tempe, where she teaches in the Lodestar Mediation Clinic.  Ms. Facciola has participated as a faculty member on several continuing legal education presentations hosted by the Arizona State Bar and is a member of the Executive council of the State Bar of Arizona ADR section.  Ms. Facciola also practices employment law from both the plaintiff and defense perspectives and represents clients in a variety of general business matters.  The Law Offices of Eckert & Facciola conduct on-site investigations, and provide counseling and training to business clients concerning a variety of employment law issues, including implementation of in-house alternative dispute resolution systems.

Moscovitch, Eugene

Gene Moscovitch of PMA Dispute Resolution in Century City, California, earned his J.D. from UCLA Law School in 1973.  After years of practice as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles, he became a full-time mediator in 1998.  HIs mediation practice focuses on employment issues, commercial cases, legal malpractice and malicious prosecution cases, major trauma personal injury and civil rights cases.  His approach is probably more evaluative than facilitative and emphasizes likely juror perception and response should the matter proceed to trial.  He writes and speaks extensively in the field of mediation, much of which can be reviewed at his PMA-linked website located at www.moscovitchmediation.com

Moses, Phil

Philip Moses serves as CADRE's Assistant Director managing all of CADRE's activities to state departments of education in order to improve the effectiveness of special education dispute resolution systems. Philip was formerly Coordinator of the Program on Public Policy Dispute Resolution at the Government Law Center of Albany Law School where he was also an Adjunct Faculty member teaching courses on mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He is a graduate of the PARC program at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Between1996 and 2011, Philip chaired eight national conferences including most recently "Showcasing Exemplary Practices: The Fifth National Symposium on Dispute Resolution in Special Education".

Mousin, Craig

Craig Mousin is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and an Adjunct Faculty member in the DePaul University College of Law.  He was the Director of the DePaul Center for Church/State Studies at the founding of this project.  He is the co-founder of the DePaul Interfaith Family Mediation Project and continues to serve as a mediator.  Rev. Mousin is the Ombudsperson for DePaul University.

Mullins, LoValerie

LoValerie Mullins is the National Mediation Board’s Mediator-ADR, assisting in the development and delivery of ADR services and training programs to labor-management parties in the airline and railroad industries, and internally to NMB staff.  LoValerie is an experienced mediator and ADR trainer. She has published articles in the workplace and natural resource mediation fields. Ms. Mullins earned her Juris Doctor from the Appalachian School of Law and an LL.M. degree from the University of Missouri’s Dispute Resolution Program. She is certificated as both a Workplace/Federal Workplace and Commercial Mediator.

Neal, Barbara Reeves

Barbara Reeves Neal is an arbitrator, mediator and special master with JAMS based in Los Angeles, California.  She handles commercial disputes, employment disputes, intellectual property disputes, construction disputes and antitrust disputes. She is a Fellow in the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the Academy of Court Appointed Masters and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  She received her law degree from Harvard Law School, cum laude.

Neville, Richard

Richard Neville is a former judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County; now with JAMS in Chicago, Illinois.  He also has entered an arbitration award on joined or collective arbitration.Neal, Barbara Reeves

Ng, Cornie

Singapore has promoted the use of mediation actively through Court annexed mediation in the Subordinate Courts and private mediation through the Singapore Mediation Centre. Singapore is also now widely regarded as a reputable centre for international arbitration for disputes originating from all over the world. Cornie Ng, a Senior Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore, has been involved in most of these efforts, has previously been a presenter at the ABA Section of DR's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2002, and will be able to share Singapore's experiences in this area and her insights about the development of mediation.

Nisbet, Miriam

In September 2009, Miriam Nisbet became the first Director of the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) at the National Archives and Records Administration. OGIS is the new FOIA ombudsman and policy office created by the 2007 FOIA Amendments; the office will provide mediation services to resolve disputes between FOIA requesters and administrative agencies. Miriam previously served for two years at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris as Director of the Information Society Division, in the Communication and Information Sector. Among the Division's responsibilities are the Information for All Programme and support for libraries and archives.

Nolan-Haley, Jacqueline

Jacqueline Nolan-Haley is a Professor at Fordham University School of Law where she directs the ADR & Conflict Resolution Program.

Nolon, Sean

Sean Nolon is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of Dispute Resolution at Vermont Law School.  He received his B.S. from Cornell University and J.D., Cum Laude, from Pace Law School, where he was the Executive Editor of the Pace Law Review.  He teaches Negotiation, ADR and Environmental Dispute Resolution and has trained hundreds of local leaders on land use law and consensus building. He also teaches Environmental Dispute Resolution online in Vermont Law School's distance learning program.

Nowicki, Julia

Hon. Julia M. Nowicki (Ret.) presided for more than twenty-two years in several divisions of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, where she resolved a variety of matters including commercial disputes; corporate governance matters, nationwide and statewide class actions; insurance coverage disputes; torts including professional malpractice, product liability, wrongful death, and Structural WorkAct (SWA) cases; employment-restrictive covenant and executive termination cases; injunctive matters; trust disputes; administrative reviews; real estate matters including foreclosures, partitions, and specific performance cases; and domestic relations disputes.

Olson, Kelly Browe

Kelly Browe Olson is the Director of the Clinical Programs at the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas. She served as the Mediation Clinic Director from 2001 – 2003. In addition to teaching the mediation clinic, she has also taught Family Law, Family Mediation and Mediation Seminars, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Domestic Violence courses. She helped create the U.A.L.R. Graduate Certificate Program in Conflict Mediation. Before coming to Arkansas, she was the Child Law Mediation Projects Coordinator at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she taught ADR and family mediation, lectured in juvenile law, elder law and domestic violence courses. She mediates and supervises mediation in dependency/neglect, special education, custody and small claims cases. She is currently working with the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts to implement a mediation program for foster care youth transitioning out of foster care and to create a mentor program for the certification of new juvenile mediators in Arkansas.

Parker, Glen

Glen Parker is a Fellow for the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was a part of the Mediation Clinic as a J.D. student and later received an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution and Advocacy. He currently mentors students in the mediation clinics at Brooklyn, Cardozo and Columbia Law Schools. Glen serves on the Mediator Advisory Board at the New York Peace Institute where he is on the panels for Criminal Court mediation and divorce mediation.

Patrick, Linda

Linda Patrick is the Manager of the Kentucky Employee Mediation Program in the Personnel Cabinet for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.  She designed and implemented the program in 2001, which won the Eugene Rooney Award from National Association of State Personnel Executives for having the best new innovative human resource program. She holds a Master’s Degree in clinical psychology and previously served as as Vice President of the Mediation Association of Kentucky.

Pessen, Abigail

Abigail Pessen is a New York arbitrator and mediator of complex business and employment disputes for the American Arbitration Association’s Large, Complex Case and Employment Panels, the ICDR, and FINRA.   Last year she was appointed as Settlement Administrator in a major gender discrimination class action.   Abigail is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. She is a frequent speaker and faculty member for CLE programs concerning ADR and the author of Alternative Dispute Resolution Law, an annual comprehensive survey chapter published by the ABA in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.  She co-chairs the Arbitration Committee of the New York State Bar Dispute Resolution Section.   Abigail clerked for federal judge Whitman Knapp and was a commercial litigation partner at Scoppetta & Seiff.  She graduated from Barnard College and the University of Chicago Law School.  She is consistently included in New York Magazine’s New York Area’s Best Lawyers for Alternative Dispute Resolution, U.S. News & World Report’s top tier neutrals, and New York “Super Lawyers” for ADR.  She can be reached at abigail@pessenADR.com.

Peters, John

Dr. Peters is Professor of Educational Psychology and Research in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, as well as Faculty Scholar and Director, Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center Institute for Reflective Practice. The Institute provides contract training in the area of collaborative communication practices for public and private organizations, as well as for faculty at the University of Tennessee. He has been a member of his university’s faculty since 1970. He has received visiting scholar appointments at Cornell University, the University of Technology Sydney, the University of British Columbia, N.C. State University, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.  He has been awarded numerous teaching and service awards by the University of Tennessee and professional organizations, including the Chancellor’s Outstanding Teaching Award, the L. R. Hesler Award, the Chancellor’s Outstanding Academic Outreach Award, the Association of Continuing Higher Education outstanding faculty award, and a leadership award from the Tennessee Association for Continuing and Higher Education.  He was inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame in 1997 and currently serves as Chair of its Board of Directors.

Philbin, Don

Don Philbin, J.D., M.B.A., LL.M., is an AV-rated attorney-mediator and president of Picture It Settled® , a software company that develops predictive analytics for negotiation based upon deep data from thousands of litigated cases. After litigating commercial cases, forging business deals and case resolutions as general counsel and president of technology companies, and mediating hundreds of individual and collective cases in a wide variety of substantive areas, Don observed that the rhythm of the negotiation dance was predictable. So he collected data on thousands of cases from lawyers, companies, mediators, and other sources. Studying the patterns in two dimensions (money and time), he developed Picture It Settled®.   Using neural networks, predictive modeling, and genetic algorithms, Don, with considerable assistance of scientists at Southwest Research Institute®, isolated trends across groups of similar negotiations and trends that develop within particular negotiations. Now Picture It Settled® web-based software and its mobile app help negotiators optimize their concession strategies and predict where a round will end. Don was one of three Texas mediators listed in the inaugural edition of The International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation (2011; one of five Texas mediators in the 2012 edition), was recognized as the 2011 Outstanding Lawyer in Mediation by the San Antonio Business Journal, and is repeatedly listed in: The Best Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in San Antonio, and the U.S. News and Best Lawyers “Best Law Firm” survey. He is an elected fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and the American Academy of Civil Trial Mediators.

Phillips, Thomas

Thomas R. Phillips is a partner in the Austin office of Baker Botts L.L.P., concentrating in state and federal appeals, trial strategy, and alternate dispute resolution. Phillips joined Baker Botts L.L.P. in 2004, after serving for nearly seventeen years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Since returning to private practice, he has been lead counsel in a wide array of significant appeals for both large and small businesses, individuals, government entities, and non-profit groups.

Press, Sharon

Sharon B. Press is the Director of Dispute Resolution Institute at Hamline University School of Law and serves as an Associate Professor Of Law at Hamline University School of Law. She has served as Director of the Florida Dispute Resolution Center since 1991. She has been an Adjunct Professor, Teaching Mediation Theory and General ADR survey courses at Florida State University College of Law, Hamline University School of Law, Capital University Law School and the University of Nevada Las Vegas Law School. She is the recipient of numerous professional awards, including the Mary Parker Follett Award for Excellence and Innovation in Dispute Resolution presented by the Association for Conflict Resolution and CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution's Special Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field and Future of Dispute Resolution. Ms. Press is a Florida Supreme Court certified county and family mediator and is on mediation roster for the Florida Bar Grievance Mediation Program and previously with the Neighborhood Justice Center in Tallahassee, Florida. Ms. Press has co-authored two ADR textbooks: "Mediation Theory and Practice," co-authored with J. Alfini, J. Sternlight and J. Stulberg, 2001, second edition 2006 (LexisNexis) and "County Court Mediation: A Mediator's Manual," written with Kimberly Kosch, 1999.

Rainey, Daniel

Daniel Rainey is the Chief of Staff for the National Mediation Board. He joined the NMB from private practice in ADR and conflict management in April, 2001. As Chief of Staff, he is responsible for managing the agency’s internal programs, and he has full responsibility for implementing the Board’s policies in all matters coming under its jurisdiction in the administration of the Railway Labor Act, except for those related to the Board’s legal representation program and FOIA requests. Immediately prior to coming to the NMB, Mr. Rainey was the owner/president of a consulting firm specializing in conflict management, conflict intervention, and training. From 1978 through 1990, he was a faculty member and administrative faculty member at George Mason University. Among his many authored works include Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice: A Treatise on Technology and Dispute Resolution.

Reed, Kendall

Kendall C. Reed, LL.M., IMI, C. Arb, is a mediator and arbitrator based in Los Angeles, California. His ADR practice focuses on assisting businesses resolve and prevent disputes of all types.  He is a graduate of University of California San Diego, the University of Southern California School of Law, and the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he received his Master of Laws degree and where he now teaches as an adjunct professor.  He is a Chartered Arbitrator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is internationally certified as a mediator by the International Mediation Institute (IMI). He is currently a Co-Chairman of the ADR Committee of the Litigation Section of the California Bar, Co-Chairman of the Commercial Section of ACR, Immediate Past President of the Southern California Mediation Association (President 2011), and a former member of the board of directors of Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., a division of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.  Mr. Reed is on the panels of the Alternative Resolution Centers (ARC), the Los Angeles Superior Court, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the National Arbitration Forum (Domain Name Disputes), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Reynolds, Jennifer

Professor Reynolds received her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, a master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago. While at Harvard, Professor Reynolds served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review; as a research assistant for Professor Arthur Miller on his treatise, Federal Practice and Procedure; and as a teaching assistant, researcher, and Harvard Negotiation Research Project Fellow for the Program on Negotiation. Before law school, Professor Reynolds worked for seven years as a systems analyst and associate director for information technology at UT Austin. After law school, Reynolds was an associate at the Atlanta office of Dow Lohnes PLLC, working primarily on First Amendment and employment cases. She joined the faculty at the University of Missouri School of Law as a Visiting Associate Professor in 2008 before joining the Oregon faculty the following year. Professor Reynolds teaches civil procedure and negotiation. Her research interests include organizational dispute systems design, problem-solving in multiparty scenarios, judicial decision making within the context and constraints of rules of procedure, and cultural influences and implications of alternative processes.

Riley, Michele

Michele S. Riley serves as a commercial mediator and arbitrator. She mediates a wide range of business disputes for the American Arbitration Association and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution as well as litigated cases for the NYS Supreme Court and the Federal district courts in New York.  Ms. Riley complements her ADR practice by teaching courses on negotiation and mediation at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution and in the Master’s Degree Program in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Columbia University.  She is a recent past co-chair of the Commercial Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution and a member of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section.  Ms. Riley holds an M.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Riskin, Leonard

Leonard L. Riskin, Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Visiting Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, previously served at the University of Missouri as director of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. A practicing mediator, he has taught both dispute resolution and mindfulness around the world. His law degrees are from NYU (J.D) and Yale (LL.M.) He has published several books and numerous articles on dispute resolution (some dealing with "grids" of mediator orientations-facilitative-evaluative/broad-narrow), and several articles on the potential contributions of mindfulness to law and mediation practice.

Robbennolt, Jennifer

Professor Jennifer Robbennolt is Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of Illinois and a renowned scholar in the area of psychology and law, torts, and dispute resolution. Her research integrates psychology into the study of law and legal institutions, focusing primarily on legal decision-making and the use of empirical research methodology in law. Professor Robbennolt is author (with Jean Sternlight) of Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation, and Decision Making, author (with Illinois colleagues Robert Lawless and Tom Ulen) of a textbook on Empirical Methods in Law, and co-author of the influential casebook, Dispute Resolution and Lawyers.  She has served as secretary of the American Psychology-Law Society and as the chair of the AALS section on law and the social sciences and is on the editorial board of two journals, Law and Human Behavior and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Professor Robbennolt regularly incorporates psychology into her teaching and has been the recipient of the Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award for outstanding teaching and the Gold Chalk Award for dedication and service to the advancement of graduate student education.

Robin, Elinor

Elinor Robin, PhD., is a recognized expert in divorce, family, and workplace conflict.  With natural wit and wisdom she brings academic discernment, entrepreneurial savvy, her revolutionary spirit, and a wide range of experiences from within the family, civil, criminal, and juvenile courts to her teaching and her mediation clients.  As a Primary Trainer with Mediation Training Group she has trained over 10,000 professional mediators to rave reviews.  Elinor is an appointed member of the Florida Supreme Court's Mediator Qualifications Board (MQB) and a Past-president of the Association of South Florida Mediators (ASFMA).  She has achieved Advanced Practitioner status with the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR).

Rosini, Neil J.

Neil’s practice focuses on content clearance for broadcast, publication and online distribution; opinion work and counseling respecting copyright, rights of publicity and defamation matters; content and software licenses relating to website and mobile platform uses; online privacy issues; literary publishing; performing arts; trademark licensing, celebrity endorsements and branding. He was listed in the 2006-2012 editions of “Super Lawyers/New York Metro Edition,” ranking him among the top 5% of New York State attorneys. According to the magazine, this selection was based on an independent survey of 59,000 lawyers and an evaluation by a "blue ribbon panel of preeminent peers" in each area of practice.  Neil received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (summa cum laude, member of Phi Beta Kappa).

Rule, Colin

Colin Rule is CEO of Modria.com, an ODR provider based in Silicon Valley.  From 2003 to 2011 he was Director of Online Dispute Resolution for eBay and PayPal. He has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than a decade as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Colin co-founded Online Resolution, one of the first online dispute resolution (ODR) providers, in 1999 and served as its CEO (2000) and President. In 2002 Colin co-founded the Online Public Disputes Project (now eDeliberation.com) which applies ODR to multiparty, public disputes. Previously, Colin was General Manager of Mediate.com, the largest online resource for the dispute resolution field. Colin also worked for several years with the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (now ACR) in Washington, D.C. and the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, MA.

Russo, Carol

Carol Zamora-Russo has served as a Senior Conciliation Specialist of the Community Relations Service (CRS), USDOJ since 1999. Prior to joining CRS she worked in the community as a mediator and Program Coordinator for 15 years with court and law enforcement conflict resolution programs such as Victim-Offender Mediation Programs and Dependency Court Programs; as well as mediating racial & cultural tensions in the community with Dispute Resolution Service, arm of L.A. County Bar Association, CA and with Peninsula Conflict Resolution Services in San Mateo County, CA and Community Boards in San Francisco, CA. She received her B.A. in Sociology with a minor in History from CA State University of Los Angeles and a Secondary Teaching Credential from CA State University of San Jose.

Scheifelbein, Jr., Lester W.

Lester W. Schiefelbein, Jr., is vice president and deputy general counsel for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. Schiefelbein leads a team of attorneys in performing all aspects of corporate law practice to include specialization in commercial, government and international business law.  Schiefelbein advises Space Systems and Corporate executive teams on key acquisition issues in the award and performance of multi-billion dollar satellite programs.  Schiefelbein is also responsible for Space Systems government compliance reporting and export functions.   Schiefelbein has acted as counsel in and managed U.S. and international litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, the Taiwan Supreme Court and domestic and international arbitrations and mediations, including commercial proceedings under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, the London Court of International Arbitration and the International Chamber of Commerce.

Schneider, Andrea

Andrea Schneider is a Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School where she teaches Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Ethics, and International Conflict Resolution.  She also runs Marquette’s nationally-ranked dispute resolution program.  Professor Schneider’s edited or co-authored books include Dispute Resolution: Examples & Explanations (2nd ed.) with Michael Moffitt; Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model (2nd ed.), Negotiation: Processes for Problem-Solving; and Mediation: Practice, Policy & Ethics all with Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Lela Love & Jean Sternlight; The Negotiator’s Fieldbook with Christopher Honeyman; as well as Coping with International Conflict and Beyond Machiavelli: Tools for Coping with Conflict both with Roger Fisher.  In addition, Professor Schneider frequently publishes law review articles and book chapters on negotiation, international conflict and dispute systems design.  Marquette’s Foreclosure Mediation Program was named Lawyer of the Year by the Milwaukee Bar Association in 2010 and Professor Schneider was named 2009 Woman of the Year by the Wisconsin Law Journal.  Professor Schneider received her A.B. cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and Public Policy at Princeton University and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. She also received a Diploma from the Academy of European Law in Florence, Italy.    

Schooler, Larry

Larry Schooler is President-Elect of the International Association for Public Participation (USA) and the Community Engagement Consultant for the City of Austin, Texas, where he serves as a mediator and facilitator.  He is an adjunct lecturer at Southern Methodist University and a fellow at the Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution at the University of Texas.  He also mediates disputes for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Schultz, Susan

Susan is a trained mediator and facilitator; she joined the Center after years of practicing regulatory law in both the private and public sectors. Susan has mediated multiple situations, including workplace tensions, neighborhood concerns, and civil rights. She has also facilitated groups with varying goals, such as developing an educational legislative strategy, negotiating a rule for the provision of mental health services, and designing the extension of a state highway. Susan also trains and presents at conferences on various collaborative processes, including consensus-building and negotiated rulemaking. Susan teaches public policy dispute resolution at the University of Texas School of Law.

Schumann, David

David W. Schumann is an applied psychologist and holds the William J. Taylor Professorship of Business.  During his 28 year tenure at UT, he has the opportunity to serve in numerous roles to include department head, senior associate dean, and co-founder and director of the CBA Global Leadership Scholars Program.  He presently serves as the Inaugural Director of UT’s Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center and is a member of the Provost’s staff.  In his role with the Center, he provides coaching to UT’s faculty focused on improving their professional teaching skills and their knowledge of how students learn.  He also offers facilitation services across campus for department level strategic planning.  As part of the Center’s Institute for Reflective Practice he provides contract training in collaborative communication practices to government agencies and external organizations.  He has edited two often cited books and has published over 100 articles in the behavioral science and education disciplines.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has served as President of the Society for Consumer Psychology.  He has been awarded numerous teaching, research, leadership, and service awards including the CBA’s Bank of America Leadership Award and the University’s prestigious Alexander Prize.

Schwartz, Richard

Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic, at the University of Illinois and at Northwestern University.  Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed the Internal Family Systems model (IFS) in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves.   In 2000, he founded the Center for Self Leadership (www.selfleadership.org), which offers three levels of trainings and workshops in IFS for professionals and the general public, both in this country and abroad.  A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has published five books and over fifty articles about IFS.

Schwartz, Suzanne

Suzanne Schwartz serves as Environmental Program Director for the Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution at the University of Texas School of Law, where she focuses on building collaboration and resolving disputes in the environmental and natural resources field.  She recently facilitated large stakeholder groups toward consensus recommendations on environmental flows for Texas river basins.  Ms. Schwartz teaches public policy dispute resolution and negotiation courses at the UT Law School. Prior to joining the center, Ms. Schwartz served as General Counsel for the Texas Water Development Board. Ms. Schwartz received her law degree from The University of Texas.

Selby, Myra

Myra Selby, former associate justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, has a broad-based practice with a focus in the areas of corporate internal investigations, appellate practice, compliance counseling, complex litigation, risk management, strategic and other legal advice, based upon an understanding of the related business objectives, across various industry sectors including health care, insurance and public administration.

Shestowsky, Donna

Donna Shestowsky was awarded BA and MS (Psychology) degrees from Yale University and J.D. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. While at Stanford, she taught courses in legal psychology and established a research lab devoted to the empirical study of juries and dispute resolution processes. During the 2003-2004 academic year she was jointly appointed to the faculty at Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management. Dr. Shestowsky teaches Criminal Law, Negotiation Strategy, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and a Seminar in Legal Psychology. She also coaches the King Hall Negotiations team, which has won numerous awards in negotiation competitions across the nation, and ranked 1st in the international law student negotiations competition in 2009. She was the 2007 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. Her legal and psychological commentary has appeared in national sources such as CNN, NPR, and the New York Times. She advises courts in the development of court-connected ADR programs and provides negotiation education services to law firms, multi-national corporations and members of national organizations such as the Practicing Law Institute. She is currently conducting a national longitudinal study, funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Bar Association, which examines how litigants decide how to resolve their disputes.

Silverman, Peter

Peter Silverman has extensive experience in the area of commercial litigation and general business counsel. He has substantial experience in a number of specialty areas, including franchising, alternative dispute resolution, intellectual property, and antitrust. Peter is an active arbitrator and mediator. He is a member of the AAA's Large, Complex Case Arbitration Panel. He teaches seminars nationwide and writes widely on alternative dispute resolution. In 2012 and four prior years, Franchise Times® recognized him as one of the nation's top 100 franchise lawyers. Best Lawyers lists him as one of America's best Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Franchise Law, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Litigation - Securities, and Mediation lawyers, and he has been recognized by Ohio Super Lawyers® in the franchise law category. He is chair of the Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, and is on the Governing Committee, of the ABA Forum on Franchising, and a member of the IFA/CPR Franchise Mediation Program Steering Committee. He received the Ernst and Young Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Award for his work in helping business owners start and grow their businesses, and is a member of the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University Entrepreneurial & Business Excellence Hall Of Fame. He is also a commissioner on the Ohio Casino Control Commission, and formerly served on the Toledo City Council and the Toledo School Board.

Simmons, Shayla

Shayla Freeman Simmons is the Senior Counsel for Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution (CADR) in the Office of the Solicitor in the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, DC.  She is a graduate of the University of Texas and Southern Methodist University School of Law. Ms. Simmons has served as a senior executive in the U.S. Department of the Interior since 1994, and has been in her current role as Senior Counsel for CADR since 2006. Prior to joining the Department of the Interior, she worked in private practice in Texas and Florida.

Simon, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Simon has practiced labor and employment law for over 25 years and currently manages a full-time mediation and arbitration practice, serving on a number of national, state and local panels. Over the last six years, Liz has also designed dispute resolution courses for law schools and conflict resolution programs for undergraduate studies and health care institutions.  She currently teaches Advanced Mediation Advocacy at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and is an adjunct professor with DePaul University College of Law and with Lexis-Nexis. www.adrsolutions3.com

Simpson, Maria

Dr. Simpson has been a mediator for the Los Angeles County Superior Court for over 15 years. She works primarily with organizations to incorporate the skills and approaches of mediation into workplace  communications and systems using a variety of materials and assessments. As an  executive coach for both individuals and teams, she has improved leadership and  decision-making skills that resulted in increased trust among team members and  significant organizational change. She serves on the boards of directors of the  South Bay Center for Dispute Resolution, the Southern California Mediation  Association, and Empathia Pacific, a national provider of EAP services. For over eight years Dr. Simpson has written a weekly email on management  communications and conflict resolution called Two Minute Training and published  the first collection of these columns called “Leading Unstoppable Teams!” She conducts leadership retreats and speaks  often on issues of communications and conflict resolution.  Dr. Simpson received her Ph.D. from New York  University, has held a variety of senior management positions, and teaches  graduate courses in communications and conflict resolution. Among her clients  are Kaiser Permanente, Bank of America, Easter Seals Southern California,  Premiera Care, several city agencies, and Toyota Financial Services USA.

Singh, Sukhsimranjit

Sukhsimranjit Singh is associate director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and director of LL.M. in Dispute Resolution at Willamette University College of Law. Singh is a board member of the Oregon Mediation Association and has mediated family, cross-cultural and inter-religious disputes. He has spoken about peaceful cross-cultural conflict resolution in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Skipper, Michelle M.

Michelle Skipper is Vice President for the American Arbitration Association.   Mrs. Skipper an accomplished Healthcare Industry Professional, with 20 years of experience. Previously the Operations Manager at Bexar County Hospital - Department of Pediatrics in San Antonio, later serving 12 year tenure as Executive Director at Charlotte Orthopedic Specialist; and most recently serving as Practice Administrator for Charlotte Surgical Group, P.A., proficiently leading one of North Carolina’s largest independently owned surgical practices.   Recognizing the added value of ADR to the Healthcare Industry Mrs. Skipper has fast become a sought after speaker providing presentations to local and national healthcare arenas, marring her healthcare professional expertise and ADR for presentations to; Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), and many other Healthcare Professional Associations.  In addition to providing presentations to students of law, and writing a featured article for local trade publications, Mrs. Skipper chairs the AAA Healthcare Dispute Resolution Advisory Council.   Mrs. Skipper received a Bachelor’s of Business Administration Degree in Finance from the University of Texas, San Antonio; she also holds a MBA from the McColl School of Business, Queens University, Charlotte; and is a 2001 Charlotte Business Journal 40 Under 40 Business Leader Award Recipient.

Smith, Craig H.

Craig H. Smith, Partner Hogan Lovells; Mr. Smith  rejoined the firm in 2008 after serving as General Counsel for Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration.  Craig is Board Certified in Health Law by the Florida Bar, and he represents health care industry clients on a wide range of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. As General Counsel of the agency with a budget of over $17 billion that regulates more than 32,000 health care facilities, Craig supervised over 40 in-house lawyers in four different offices across Florida and was a member of the agency's Senior Management Team.  Craig oversaw significant class action and other complex litigation against the agency at the trial court and appellate court levels, and he addressed many critical health care policy issues, including statewide Medicaid managed care reform and the appropriate expansion of electronic health information.  He participated in mediations and helped oversee the legal issues arising out of Florida’s voluntary alternative dispute resolution process for healthcare providers and insurers. Craig has appeared before Congress and numerous state legislatures to address Medicaid program and other health policy issues, and he is a frequent speaker at national health law conferences.

Smith, Stephanie

Stephanie E. Smith has taught negotiation and dispute systems design at Stanford Law School since 1997. As a practitioner in dispute systems design, she was the first Director of ADR Programs for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the reporter for the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Kaiser Permanente Arbitration. She has consulted and trained on court ADR program design throughout the U.S. and abroad, including working with lawyers and judges from Jordan, India, Canada, China, Gaza and the West Bank, Slovenia, Abu Dhabi, and Bhutan. She also does negotiation teaching and training internationally. As a grant making consultant for the Compton Foundation’s Peace and Security Program, and previously as Consulting Program Officer for the Hewlett Foundation’s Conflict Resolution Program, she has supported efforts to expand conflict resolution options and strengthen rule of law around the world. Ms. Smith chaired the ADR Committee of the ABA’s Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, served as a member of the editorial board of Dispute Resolution Magazine, and was a member of the CPR/Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards of Dispute Resolution Practice. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School.

Spain, Anna

Associate Professor of Law, Univ. of Colorado Law School; JD, Harvard Law School; Executive Editor, Harvard Human Rights Journal; prior lecturer, UCLA Law School and School of Public Affairs; prior Deputy Director, UCLA Burkle School for Intl. Affairs; prior attorney-advisor, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser, International Claims and Investment Disputes; prior project advisor and US delegate, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Washington, D.C.; prior Project Adviser and U.S. delegate to the U.S. - Chile Free Trade Agreement Negotiations; author of published articles and seminar faculty and presenter on international dispute resolution; recipient, SGI-International Culture of Peace Peacemaker Award, U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Award, U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Award.

Stanton, Sarah

Sarah Stanton is Associate General Counsel for the Air Force General Counsel's Dispute Resolution Division.  She assists in the development and management of the Air Force Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program.  Her work includes the implementation of Air Force ADR policies and procedures in Air Force workplace disputes as well as environmental and contract disputes. She also serves as a dispute resolution instructor for mediation and negotiation courses. Ms. Stanton has nine years of experience in ADR, with a primary focus on workplace mediation. Prior to her current position, Ms. Stanton served as Roster Manager for the Department of Defense Roster of Neutrals, training mediators and filling department-wide requests for mediators and facilitators. Ms. Stanton still serves as a Department of Defense roster mediator and an Interagency Shared Neutrals mentor mediator. Prior to entering federal government service, Ms. Stanton served as a summer associate for Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, a mediator for the small claims court in Franklin County Ohio, and an Editor of the Journal on Dispute Resolution.

Steele, Mac

Mac Steele  is the Volunteer Director at the Center for Conflict Resolution. He is also currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration (MPA) at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Before moving to Chicago in August of 2010, Mac worked at the Safe Horizon Mediation Program (now known as the New York Peace Institute) where he coordinated mediation, conflict resolution, and communication skills trainings. Mac is a presenter, facilitator, arbitrator, and mediator who has experience working in a number of practice areas of conflict resolution, including schools-based mediation, lemon law arbitration, foreclosure mediation, family mediation, TBLG issues, and mediation in civil matters. Originally from Michigan, Mac attended Western Michigan University where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Administration.

Sternlight, Jean

Jean R. Sternlight is the Saltman Professor of Law and also Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas Boyd School of Law.  She is co-author of Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation, and Decision Making (ABA 2012), Dispute Resolution: Beyond the Adversarial Model 2d ed. (Aspen 2011), Mediation Theory and Practice 2d ed. (Lexis 2006), and Arbitration Law in America:  A Critical Assessment (Cambridge Univ. Press 2006).  She has published articles in numerous well-respected journals. Sternlight received her B.A. from Swarthmore College, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Stienstra, Donna

Donna Stienstra is a senior researcher at the Federal Judicial Center, the United States federal courts’ agency for research and education. Her research and education efforts have focused on civil case management and alternative dispute resolution in the U.S. district and appellate courts. She has published extensively on court-related subjects, including studies of appellate procedure, discovery practice, and alternative dispute resolution. Donna regularly consults with the U.S. federal courts in their efforts to provide alternative dispute resolution services and has also consulted with state courts and court systems in other countries, including India, Thailand, Namibia, Nigeria, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Columbia. She was the founding chair, along with Sheila Purcell, of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Court ADR Committee. Until the project was recently concluded, she served on the ADR Product Advisory Board, an initiative of the Investment Climate Department of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.

Stipanowich, Thomas J.

Mr. Stipanowich is William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution, Professor of Law, Pepperdine University, Academic Director, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.  Co-author, Federal Arbitration Law, (Best New Legal Book, Association of American Publishers); Resolving Disputes: Theory, Law and Practice (2nd ed 2010).  Director, CPR Commission on the Future of Arbitration; Editor, Commercial Arbitration at Its Best: Successful Strategies for Business Users (2001); Editor-in-Chief, College of Commercial Arbitrators Protocols for Expeditious, Cost Effective Commercial Arbitration (2010 CPR Practical Achievement Award; 2011 Lawyer as Problem Solver Award, ABA Dispute Resolution Section); Co-chair, National Roundtable on Consumer and Employment Dispute Resolution (2011-12); Academic advisor, Revised Uniform Arbitration Act; Reporter, Consumer Due Process Protocol; AAA International Visiting Scholar (2000); Public Member/Chair, Securities Industry Conference on Arbitration; Advisor, ALI Restatement on International Arbitration; President, International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) (2001-6); William Matthews Professor of Law, U.Ky. (1984-2001); Founder, Mediation Center of Ky.  Arbitrator/mediator appointments through AAA, ICDR, ICC, JAMS, CPR.  D’Alemberte/Raven Award, ABA Section on Dispute Resolution (2008); CPR’s First Prize, Professional Articles (1987, 2009); Martindale-Hubbell AV-rating; highest honor (Companionship) of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Founding Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators; Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers; Honorary Member, IAM, ACCTM.

Stobbe, Stephanie

Stephanie Stobbe is an active educator, trainer, and ADR practitioner with a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies. As an Associate of the Centre for Conflict Resolution International, Stephanie has developed and facilitated ADR workshops and interventions dealing with organizational conflict management. Stephanie has conducted conflict resolution courses, workshops, and research in Canada, United States, South America, and Southeast Asia. In 2006, she was invited to work with local citizens to develop the first peace program in Laos, recently returning to complete research on mediation and conflict resolution rituals. She is co-editor of a book, Critical Aspects of Gender in Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Social Movements (2011). In 2012 Stephanie was invited as part of ABA team of experts to discuss “Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding: Implementing the Secretary-General’s Report on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding” and provide recommendations for UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1889. Her current research project examines professional immigrants in Canada’s labor market. Stephanie is a faculty of Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College at the University of Winnipeg in Canada.

Stoller, Stacy

Stacy Stoller is the ADR Counsel  for the Environment and Natural Resources Section in the Department of Justice and is responsible for the effective use of ADR in federal environmental litigation, in both affirmative cases enforcing environmental regulations  and defensive cases representing agencies of the federal government.

Storcel, Susan

Susan M. Storcel was named director of the Cook County Circuit Court’s Child Protection Mediation and Facilitation Program in Chicago, Illinois, in 2003.  After graduating from law school in 1990, she worked for the Office of the Cook County Public Guardian in the disabled adult and juvenile divisions.  In the juvenile division she represented abused, neglected and dependent youth. Ms. Storcel has served on a variety of committees related to children’s issues, including the Juvenile Court Long Term Vision Subcommittee which helped launch the Child Protection Mediation Pilot Program.  She is currently the Vice Chair of the Executive Council of the Illinois Child Death Review Team, and the Chair of the Court Culture Child Protection Subgroup.  She worked with other child protection mediation professionals throughout the United States and Canada to develop Child Protection Mediation Guidelines which were adopted and published by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.  Ms. Storcel has presented numerous workshops and presentations related to child protection mediation.  She earned her B.A. from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois and her J.D. from DePaul University in Chicago.

Storrow, Rebecca

Dr. Rebecca Storrow is a Vice President in the American Arbitration Association (AAA). She is the Director for their Residential Mortgage Mediation Programs in Florida and conducts mediation training with AAA University. Dr. Storrow holds Florida Supreme Court certification in family, dependency, circuit, and county mediation. Formerly, she was an ADR Program Director for two Florida Judicial Circuit Courts. She founded and directed a nonprofit community mediation program and has a doctoral degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Storrow holds membership in many professional ADR associations and has been a professor in several Florida colleges.

Strand, Palma

Palma Joy Strand   is an Associate Professor at Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and Creighton Law School   Palma's experience and interest lies with civic engagement, civic networks, and the creation and strengthening of civic systems.  She was a co-founder and principal of The Arlington Forum, a local initiative of the Civic Organizing Foundation in Arlington, Virginia.  Before coming to Creighton, she was a Hewlett Fellow in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Legal Problem-Solving at the Georgetown University Law Center.  She has also taught at the University of Maryland School of Law.  She clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Byron R. White on the United States Supreme Court.  She has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Sturrock, John

Founder and CEO of the Core Solutions Group, John has pioneered mediation and high quality training in business, the professions and commerce in Scotland and elsewhere.  In Band 1 in Best of the UK in Chambers Guide, John has been involved in a broad range of disputes in the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad. He is one of the leading mediators in the UK market and is an internationally recognized coach and facilitator in negotiation, mediation and communication, with senior executives, judges, top athletes and parliamentarians.  He is independent facilitator of the 2020 Climate Change Delivery Group, became a Queen's Counsel in 1999, is a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University and, as the first Director of Training and Education in the Faculty of Advocates from 1994 to 2002, designed and led the Scottish Bar's award-winning advocacy skills programme.  He trained in negotiation at Harvard University, was named Specialist of the Year at the Scottish Legal Awards in 2003 and Mediator of the Year at the Law Awards of Scotland 2009 and received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Edinburgh Napier University in 2010.

Such, Domingo

Domingo Such is a Partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Private Client Department concentrating in estate and tax planning matters including contested cases as well as general corporate and securities work, providing him with a broad legal perspective in counseling family-owned and/or private-held businesses and family members.  He has published several articles, including publications for Family Firm Institute, Trusts & Estates, Estate Planning, Willamette Management Associates, William Blair, Fidelity, ALI-ABA and the Loyola Family Business Center.  He serves on numerous committees, associations and professional organizations along with being a Fellow in the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel.

Sussman, Edna

Edna Sussman  is an independent arbitrator and mediator and the Distinguished ADR Practitioner in Residence at Fordham Law School. She is the former co-chair of the arbitration committee of the ABA Dispute Resolution and International Sections, former Chair of the NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section, Co-Editor in Chief of the NY Dispute Resolution Lawyer, NYSBA journal, a member of the executive committee of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and trainer for and a board member of the American Arbitration Association. She has written and spoken widely on arbitration in many forums.

Sydney, Ross

Ross Sydney holds a Ph.D. in Physics and has provided system engineering and project management expertise to the defense industries of the United States and Australia for over 30 years. He has led major projects in military and defense development involving multiple billion dollar budgets and hundreds of employee/contractors. He has worked for Rockwell International and his consulting clients have included Kellogg Brown & Root as well as the U.S. and Australian governments.

Tanz, Jill S.

Jill S. Tanz is a mediator, attorney, and Adjunct Professor at DePaul University College of Law.  She mediates disputes involving commercial and contract disputes, foreclosure, real estate, condominium and construction matters, partnership dissolution and probate issues.  She is on the American Arbitration Association Roster of Mediators and certified by the International Mediation Institute.  She teaches mediation certificate courses for the Center for Dispute Resolution at DePaul and is a coach and trainer for the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago.  Ms. Tanz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Lafayette College and earned a JD from the University of Chicago.

Tesler, Pauline

Pauline H. Tesler is director of Commonweal's new Integrative Law Institute, a specialist in family law certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization since 1984, and a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. After conducting a vigorous litigation and appellate practice for 20 years, in the mid-1990s she became a pioneer in extending the practice of Collaborative Law and interdisciplinary team Collaborative Divorce worldwide. For her groundbreaking work as a collaborative lawyer, Pauline was recipient of the first "Lawyer as Problem Solver" award from the American Bar Association in 2002. Pauline and a small group of colleagues co-founded the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and its journal, The Collaborative Review, in the late 1990s. Pauline is author of the critically acclaimed practice manual for lawyers, Collaborative Law: Achieving Effective Resolution in Divorce Without Litigation (published in 2001 by the American Bar Association) and Collaborative Divorce: The Revolutionary New Way to Restructure Your Family, Resolve Legal Issues, and Move On With Your Life.

Thompson, Darin

Darin Thompson is legal counsel with the Justice Services Branch of the British Columbia Ministry of Justice.  He has worked extensively on new programs and initiatives aimed at modernizing and improving access to civil and family justice systems. His work is currently focused on implementation activities for a groundbreaking new tribunal in BC called the Civil Resolution Tribunal. The tribunal will resolve small claims and condominium disputes through ODR processes and virtual hearings, resulting in final and binding orders that may be enforced through the courts.  More generally, his area of specialty involves the use of technology to improve the functioning of public dispute resolution and adjudicative processes. Further information at http://about.me/darint.

Thorpe, Wayne

R. Wayne Thorpe has been a full-time mediator/arbitrator with JAMS for more than 14 years.  Previously he was a litigation partner at Alston & Bird and a law clerk to a federal judge.  He has mediated or arbitrated more than 1500 cases in 15 or more states including class actions, MDL and other complex cases in many practice areas including business and commercial, employment, environmental, government, healthcare, products and professional liability, technology and IP, and construction and construction defect cases.  He has been recognized for a number of years in The International Who's Who of Commercial Mediation Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, and Georgia Super Lawyers as a leading ADR lawyer, and Best Lawyers named him Atlanta Mediation Lawyer of the Year for 2012.  Mr. Thorpe also has been named a fellow in both the College of Commercial Arbitrators and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. He is Past Chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section, and he has been involved in ADR ethics and other policy matters both nationally and in Georgia for many years.

Travis, Mark

Mark Travis is the Director of the Tennessee Center for Workforce Relations, where he is currently responsible for the implementation and administration of the TEAM Mediation Program for the Tennessee Department of Human Resources. He is a former chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Tennessee Bar Association and holds a Master of Laws in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Law School.  Mr. Travis also serves as a neutral for the AAA, FMCS, FINRA, EEOC, the National Mediation Board, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Tuchmann, Eric

Eric P. Tuchmann is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the American Arbitration Association.  In that capacity, he is responsible for managing the Association’s legal and governance affairs, and spearheads strategic initiatives directed at the use of alternative dispute resolution.  His specific responsibilities include the management of litigation related matters involving the Association or its arbitrators.  Mr. Tuchmann has also served as counsel of record for amicus curiae briefs filed in various courts, and cited by the Supreme Court of the United States.  Mr. Tuchmann is involved in numerous policy related initiatives related to alternative dispute resolution, and he also analyzes state and federal legislation impacting alternative dispute resolution, the unauthorized practice of law, and attorneys’ professional rules of responsibility. He has served as the Association’s liaison to the committee to revise the Uniform Arbitration Act and to the committee revising the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators.  Mr. Tuchmann was the Association’s Associate General Counsel before being named as General Counsel. Prior to joining the Association’s legal department, Mr. Tuchmann was Director of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) where he managed the Association’s division responsible for providing international arbitration and mediation services.

Urbina, Ricardo

Hon. Ricardo M. Urbina (Ret.) is an arbitrator and mediator with JAMS following 31 years of distinguished service on the District of Columbia federal and superior courts. Most recently, he served 18 years as a U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia and issued well over a thousand memorandum opinions. In April 1981, Judge Urbina became the first Latino ever appointed to the bench in the District of Columbia. During his 13 years on the Superior Court, Judge Urbina garnered distinction for his handling of complex civil and criminal litigation. He managed one of the court’s most demanding trial assignments, handling a complex civil litigation calendar and heading the court’s Family Division.

Vajda, Shannon

Shannon Vajda is the owner of Pacific Coast Mediation and Pacific Coast Advocates. Shannon is a mother of three children. She has a passion for helping couples find the best solutions for their particular needs as peaceful as possible. Being optimistic is an important trait in helping couples see individual future goals instead of focusing on the past tribulations. Shannon's love for helping both birth and adoptive parents sit down and create a plan on how they will communicate with each other post-adoption derives from her own experience of having a supportive and nurturing relationship with her sons' birth family. Her two sons were adopted and her daughter is biological. Shannon has worked with children and families with special needs for almost 18 years. She received her teaching credential in the area of Special Education in 1992 in the state of New York and her mediation training through a variety of institutions, including Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Conflict Resolution Center. She has worked in the capacity of a special education teacher, administrator, and special education advocate.

Van Ginkel, Eric

Eric van Ginkel, J.D., LL.M. is a mediator and arbitrator specializing in domestic and international commercial dispute resolution. Mr. van Ginkel holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law and is a graduate of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is an Adjunct Professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law teaching courses in advanced dispute resolution processes, arbitration and mediation. He has also taught courses at the Law School of City University of Hong Kong and the Mediation Center of Walisongo Islamic University in Semarang, Indonesia. Mr. van Ginkel is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and an arbitrator on the panels of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Institute of Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, and again in 2010, he was honored as one of a small group of “Super Lawyers” in Southern California in the “ADR Arbitrator/Mediator” category by Los Angeles Magazine and Law and Politics Media.

Vargas, Lilian

Lilian Vargas is the Executive Director and member of the interdisciplinary conflict management Center of FIMe, working for 15 years in the field. Guest Lecturer, Director and Trainer of Conflict Management Courses in Argentina Universities (Buenos Aires, North East, Formosa, San Luis) and other countries (Canada, U.S., Uruguay, Spain, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Chile, Paraguay) among other private and State institutions and organizations in other countries of the world.

Waldman, Ellen

Professor Ellen Waldman  is a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she directs the  mediation program and teaches, trains and writes in the area of mediation ethics. A graduate of N.Y.U. law school, she serves on the American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution Committee on Ethics and  co-chairs the Section of Dispute Resolution’s Health Care Committee. Author of more than 25 articles on dispute resolution topics, she recently published Mediation Ethics: Cases and Commentaries (2011).

Walsh, Peter H.

Peter H. Walsh is Senior Deputy General Counsel and Chief of Litigation, Investigations, Privacy & Security of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UNH), a Fortune 22 health benefits and services company.  In this role, Mr. Walsh is responsible for overseeing litigation, legal risk management, internal and government investigations, and privacy and security compliance across UnitedHealth Group’s family of businesses.      Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Walsh was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver, Colorado, where he specialized in economic crime and white collar prosecutions and was a member of the Department of Justice’s Corporate Fraud Unit.  During his tenure with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Walsh was awarded several Department of Justice Special Achievement Awards and was formally recognized for his “outstanding prosecutive skills” by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.    Mr. Walsh graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College and cum laude from Harvard Law School.  Following law school, Mr. Walsh served as a federal court law clerk before joining the Denver, Colorado, office of Hogan Lovells.  Mr. Walsh is actively involved in the community and currently serves on the Board of House of Charity, a non-profit providing critical services to the homeless and inner-city poor of Minneapolis.

Ware, Stephen

Stephen Ware is a professor of law at the University of Kansas.  He is the author of Principles of Alternative Dispute Resolution (West Concise Hornbook Series, 2d ed. 2007), Arbitration Law in America: A Critical Assessment (Cambridge University Press, 2006)(co-author), and dozens of arbitration articles in both scholarly and popular journals.  Professor Ware has testified on arbitration before both houses of Congress and in court as an expert witness.  He is a frequent speaker at academic conferences and CLE programs.  He has appeared on television and radio and has been quoted in several national newspapers and many other publications.

Watkins, Inga

Inga A. Watkins, Esq., is principal of  Watkins Law and Dispute Resolution PLLC, in Alexandria, VA, where she serves as mediator, neutral case evaluator, arbitrator and trainer for courts, private parties, federal agencies and local and national alternative dispute resolution panels. She conducts pretrial settlement conferences in civil cases on behalf of courts; mediates and arbitrates cases in civil litigation involving equal employment opportunity, workplace, contracts, commercial, policy, and international disputes. Watkins serves as settlement counsel and assists individuals and institutional clients in the resolution of civil disputes; provides consultation and advise to governmental entities and  agencies, non-profit organizations, educational institutions and corporations on matters involving alternative dispute resolution processes, policy, contract, employment, internal affairs and procedure. She represents corporations and private parties in complex civil litigation in state and federal courts. Inga holds a PhD, A.B.D., from the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution of George Mason University, and a J.D. from the George Washington University National Law Center. She is an Adjunct Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Pre-trial Litigation Practice at Howard University School of Law, Co-chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section's Mediation Committee, and a Member of the Section Council.

Weiss, Jerome

Jerome F. Weiss is the founder of Mediation Inc.  He is the first lawyer in Cleveland to have devoted his practice entirely to ADR.  Jerry received his B.A. from Syracuse University and his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He has mediated a broad range of state and federal cases including tort, employment, complex litigation, commercial, securities, business, banking and financial, insurance coverage, death, injury, and professional malpractice disputes.  Jerry has been a member of the adjunct-faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Law where he taught mediation and negotiation skills and where he is presently an Adjunct Professor, teaching the seminar in “Mediation Representation: Theory, Principle & Practice”.  He serves on various committees in several professional associations on both the local and national level, including service as a Trustee of the Cleveland Bar Association where he was Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.  Jerry is the only mediator in Northeast Ohio to have been selected as a Distinguished Fellow in the International Academy of Mediators (IAM). He has written extensively on mediation-related topics and regularly consults with businesses, counsel and institutions on matters pertaining to negotiation and mediation.

Welsh, Jay

Jay Welsh is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of JAMS, the largest private alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider in the world.  Mr. Welsh, with JAMS since 1991, has been instrumental in the growth of JAMS and the ADR industry over the last decade.  He writes and speaks widely on various ADR topics to groups throughout the world.  As General Counsel of JAMS, he oversees all legal matters, panel quality, risk management, ethics, the JAMS National Arbitration Committee, the JAMS Institute, (Training) and the JAMS Foundation.     Prior to joining JAMS, Mr. Welsh practiced law in San Francisco.  He served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at both USC and USF Law Schools.  He is a graduate of Hamilton College and the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law.

Welsh, Nancy

Nancy Welsh is the William Trickett Faculty Scholar and  Professor of Law at Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law.

Weston, Maureen

Maureen Weston is Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law.  She received her J.D. from the University of Colorado, and B.A. in Economics/Political Science at the University of Denver.  Professor Weston teaches courses on arbitration, mediation, negotiation, international dispute resolution, legal ethics, and U.S. and international sports law.  She is Faculty Director of the Entertainment, Media & Sports Project, serves as Faculty Advisor to the Sports & Entertainment Law Society and Dispute Resolution Journal, and coaches students in ICC Mediation Advocacy and Sports & Entertainment Law Negotiation competitions.  Weston has taught law at the University of Oklahoma, University of Colorado, University of Las Vegas Nevada, Hamline, and in Oxford, England.  Prior to teaching, Weston practiced law with Holme Roberts & Owen and Faegre & Benson in Colorado.  She is actively involved in programs furthering opportunities for students to gain experience in negotiation, mediation and arbitration.  Her service membership includes subcommittee chair for the ABA, Law School Division, Arbitration Competition, AALS Sports Law Executive Committee, and former co-chair of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Education Committee and ABA, Representation in Mediation Competition.  She is a member on the Boards of Directors at the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette School of Law, the University of Colorado School of Law Alumni Board, and Malibu Little League.  A frequent speaker at conferences, Weston is co-author of casebooks on sports law and arbitration and has written numerous articles in the area of Olympic and International Sports Arbitration, disability law, sports law, and dispute resolution.

Widman, Stuart

Mr. Widman is a nationally recognized commercial arbitrator, mediator and litigator.  For 35 years he has handled complex matters in areas such as healthcare, sales and commercial code, employment, insurance, partnerships and corporations, construction and real estate, intellectual property, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, computers and e-commerce, utilities and telecommunications, environmental, licenses, securities, and franchises.  Parties have entrusted over $1.5 billion of domestic and international commercial disputes, including class actions, to arbitrate or mediate.  He has authored scores of awards, orders and rulings.

Wiseman, Kathy

Kathy Wiseman - Founder and President of Working Systems, based in Washington DC, Kathy is an international speaker on Bowen Family Systems Theory and decision making in families. She is adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Business, faculty member at Bowen Family Center in Georgetown, and private consultant to families and family offices who share ownership of assets. She is a founding member of the Family Firm Institute.  She designs transformational, evolving experiences for families of wealth to help prepare for the future.   Kathy has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and MBA from George Washington University.

Wofford, John

John Wofford is a mediator, facilitator and arbitrator based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with extensive experience in family enterprise conflicts. He was law clerk for a US District Judge, real estate partner in a Boston law firm, Deputy General Counsel of the US Department of Transportation, and Presidential appointee to the Federal Service Impasses Panel, resolving disputes in negotiations between the federal government and its unionized employees.  He holds the Certificate in Family Business Advising with Fellow Status of the Family Firm Institute.  Mr. Wofford graduated from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Wolf, Michael

Michael Wolf is the Senior Dispute Resolution Specialist for the Federal Labor Relations Authority. He previously served as Counsel for Dispute Resolution Technology to the National Mediation Board and Assoc. Director of former Secretary of Labor W.J. Usery's Center for the Workplace. At the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Mr. Wolf was a Federal Mediator, Director of Mediation Technology Services and Special Assistant to the Director. Mr. Wolf also spent more than a decade practicing labor and employment law and a brief time as a Congressional staffer. Mr. Wolf is presently co-chair of the ABA’s Federal Service Labor and Employment Law Committee.

Wright, J Kim

J. Kim Wright has a hard time fitting into any box. In 1999 she took on the unlikely project of transforming the legal profession. Since then, she has been recognized by the American Bar Association for her best-selling book, Lawyers as Peacemakers, Practicing Holistic Problem-Solving Law (2010) and for being one of the ABA Legal Rebels “finding new ways to practice law, represent their clients, adjudicate cases and train the next generation of lawyers.” She has lectured and taught at many universities and law schools on three continents in the last year.  Among many other projects, she is currently working to bridge between conscious lawyering and conscious business.

Zouhary, K.M.

K.M. Zouhary is an attorney and reformed improvisational actor.  She is an associate in Proskauer Rose LLP's Chicago office, and works on labor and employment and commercial litigation matters.  K.M. trained at the Second City Conservatory, the People's Improv Theatre and the Magnet Theatre, performed Off-Broadway at St. Ann's Warehouse and Ars Nova, and served as associate producer of Hairspray on Broadway and as executive director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Her less comedic degrees are from Yale University (B.A.) and the Northwestern University School of Law (J.D.).

Zumeta, Zena

Internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators, Zena D. Zumeta is president of the Mediation Training & Consultation Institute, Zena Zumeta Mediation Services, and The Collaborative Workplace in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Zumeta is a former board member and president of the Academy of Family Mediators (now merged into the Association for Conflict Resolution), past president of the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation, and past Regional Vice President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. She is also a former member of the Advisory Council for the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution. Ms. Zumeta has extensive experience as a trainer, mediator, facilitator and consultant. She has been providing mediation services since 1981. She is an approved civil and family mediator in Michigan, and an approved mediation trainer for Michigan and many other states. Ms. Zumeta is the recipient of the Family Mediation Council-Michigan Lifetime Achievement in Mediation Award; the National Education Association/Saturn Corporation Award for Union-Management Collaboration; the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award from ACR; and the Kumba Award from the National Conference on Minorities in ADR.