Find Lawyers in America for Alternative Dispute Resolution

David Ackerman defends law firms in professional malpractice and legal ethics actions. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, clients value his litigation experience and strategic insight in resolving disputes through trial and appeals, negotiation, or arbitration. Ranked by Chambers USA , where he is described as “an even-keeled, thoughtful and smart attorney,” he is repeatedly recognized by Florida Trend’s Legal Elite and included in The Best Lawyers in America...

Nan Alessandra represents employers in both the public and private sectors in the defense of discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims for age, gender, disability, race, religion, national origin, and other protected categories. Her litigation experience includes the defense of EEOC and other administrative charges filed through the various federal and state court agencies, as well as defense of legal claims filed at both the judicial level, as well as through the arbitration process....

John Allgood has served for more than 20 years as an independent neutral arbitrating cases in commercial, employment, construction and securities law areas. He was a member of the panel of arbitrators, USOC, during the 1996 and 1998 Olympic Games. His practice also includes mediation in the above practice areas as well as real estate and anti-trust matters. John is a Fellow in the College of Commercial Arbitrators. Previously he served as a Fellow in the College of Commercial Arbitrators as w...

Mr. Anderson is a nationally recognized trial lawyer with 37 years of experience at Winston & Strawn LLP. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who has tried many cases to verdict before federal and state courts and who has has argued many times before federal and state courts of appeal, including two arguments before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Anderson served for many years as the General Counsel and Member of the Executive Committee of Winston & Strawn LLP.

For over 40 years, Bill Andrews, a leading construction attorney in Houston, has practiced construction law , focusing on construction-related claims, lawsuits, mediations and arbitrations . He has represented owners, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers and engineering firms on a wide variety of construction-related projects. His experience in claims, trials, arbitrations and mediations includes projects such as highways and bridges, public works projects, commercial and retail co...

David’s areas of practice include alternative dispute resolution and construction law. He arbitrates and mediates construction disputes as a trained and experienced neutral decision maker or facilitator. He advises owners and developers, general contractors, subcontractors, partnerships (public and private) suppliers and sureties on planning and dispute avoidance, as well as dispute resolution through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation. He drafts and negotiates construc...

Join MAC Attorney Phil Aurbach on August 26 for a virtual panel discussion regarding Business in a Post COVID World. This is a complimentary event. Registration information/details below. During my 42 years of practice, I spent much of that time as an arbitrator for both the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and Advanced Resolution Management (ARM) as well as 17 years as a Nevada Supreme Court Settlement Judge. I know how important it is to my clients and Clark County residents to have a...

Fred Banks, a former Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, trial judge and legislator, practices in the areas of appellate litigation, commercial litigation, and alternate dispute resolution in the state and federal courts of Mississippi. He has represented corporate clients in a wide variety of matters including consumer lending, trade secret infringement, property taxation, first amendment issues and contract disputes. After serving on the state supreme court for eleven years and before...

Benton Barton is a talented, hardworking trial lawyer who is brought in to assist clients whenever and wherever they need him. Benton’s practice focuses on design, construction, environmental, products and premises disputes. He has taken to trial many significant high-exposure cases, and his appellate efforts have generated new and notable law. In addition to serving on the firm’s executive management team and chairing its Construction & Design group, Benton is the firm’...

Adrian L. Bastianelli, III is a partner at Peckar & Abramson. His practice focuses on construction claims and litigation, with an emphasis on government construction claims. He represents all sectors of the construction industry, including general contractors, subcontractors, owners, design professionals and sureties. Mr. Bastianelli also has an active alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practice. He has served as an arbitrator and a mediator on hundreds of construction disputes. He has ...

Charlie is well-known to New Hampshire judges & lawyers as one of New Hampshire’s foremost civil trial attorneys and mediators. He concentrates in the areas of: Civil rights litigation; Private mediation and arbitration; Employment litigation; and Other complex civil litigation in federal and state courts and administrative agencies. Civil Litigation; Mediation; Arbitration In 2023, while Charlie retired from the active practice of law, he continues to serve as a Mediator and Arbitr...

Simeon H. Baum, President of Resolve Mediation Services, Inc. (www.mediators.com), has successfully mediated nearly 2,000 disputes. He has been active since 1992 as a neutral in dispute resolution, assuming the roles of mediator, neutral evaluator and arbitrator in a variety of cases, including the highly publicized mediation of the Studio Daniel Libeskind-Silverstein Properties dispute over architectural fees relating to the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, Trump’s $ 1 bil...

Maureen Beyers practices complex commercial litigation and arbitration. Licensed in Arizona since 1996 and New York since 1988, Maureen practices in state and federal court representing clients in wide assortment of contract and business tort disputes across many industries. Litigation Practice: From technology to franchise and everything in between, Maureen is known for her effective and efficient approach to complex litigation. For the last several years, Maureen has been recognized for her...

Deborah Birnbach is a partner and co-chairs Goodwin’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Public M&A / Corporate Governance practices and is a member of the firm’s Life Sciences Disputes group. She specializes in securities litigation, including class action defense; SEC, regulatory and internal investigations; M&A-related litigation; stockholder disputes; fiduciary duty claims; and proxy contests. Ms. Birnbach’s practice is national in scope and clients ...

Experience as a trial lawyer since 1976, concentrating in the areas of commercial/business litigation , including construction cases, contract disputes, intellectual property cases, employment discrimination cases, and constitutional law issues. Appeared as co-counsel before the United States Supreme Court. Certified instructor, National Institute forTrial Advocacy, 1981. Since 1995, certified as a neutral by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the Missouri ...

In 1978, Jim became a founding partner of what was then Hunt Thompson & Bowie. His current practice with Thompson Bowie & Hatch LLC focuses on commercial litigation, insurance counseling services and professional liability. His exceptional reputation in the legal community is built, in part, on his successful involvement in cases which have helped shape Maine law. Not only is he a veteran of countless jury trials in both state and federal court, as well as non-jury trials, arbitration...

Judge Boyle concentrates his practice in the areas of mediation and arbitration. He has provided mediation or arbitration services in over 700 matters, covering a wide range of legal disputes.

Attorney Bill Brammer solves client problems in both complex transactions and litigation, and is also a seasoned mediator and arbitrator. Bill’s 50 years of involvement with law and legal practice, including more than 15 years as a Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, gives him the extensive background and experience needed to provide his clients with objective and thoughtful advice to resolve their issues. He oversees real estate and business transactions, financing and their litigat...

Jeff Brenner is a trial lawyer who represents clients in complex business disputes in federal and state courts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, arbitrations, mediations and before regulatory agencies. Jeff concentrates his practice on construction and real estate disputes, and he leads the firm’s Real Estate Litigation team and Construction group. What do you focus on? I help people and businesses that have disputes requiring litigation. I focus on construction and complex real estate...

Before joining Freidin Brown, P.A. as a partner in 2013, Joel H. Brown was elected by his colleagues to serve as Chief Judge for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida in 2009. Joel was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1971 and had been practicing personal injury law as a civil trial lawyer prior to his appointment by former Governor Bob Martinez to the County Court in 1990. Following his appointment, Joel served as Associate Administrative Judge of the County Court, Criminal Traffic Division, an...

Trevor A. Brown represents clients in both litigation and transactions. His real estate experience ranges from resort acquisition and development to acting as trial counsel to establish beach access rights based on Kingdom of Hawaii land use. Mr. Brown's corporate experience ranges from negotiating corporate restructurings to acting as trial counsel to force the break-up of related land development corporations. Mr. Brown holds Martindale-Hubbell's ® highest possible professional rating A...

John Bulman has more than 30 years of experience in construction and commercial trial matters in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and other states. He has served as either a neutral or counsel in trials, mediations, and arbitrations in Massachusetts, Florida, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Ohio, Missouri, Texas, and Washington D.C. John has argued cases before the Rhode Island Supreme Court and the First and Eleventh Circuit Courts...

Frank Burke is the founder of Frank Burke Mediation and Arbitration PC, and a panel member of the National Rosters of Arbitrators and Mediators of the American Arbitration Association for Commercial, Large Complex Case and Energy Disputes. He also serves as a Mediation Panel Member of the U.S. District Court ADR Program and on several state court mediation panels. He handles mediation and arbitration matters in person in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento and throughout California a...

A certified specialist in employment and labor law since 1993, M. Malissa Burnette has an extensive history of working toward workplace and social justice. She also has a wealth of experience in family law, personal injury, sexual harassment and discrimination law as well. She practices in state and federal courts, primarily representing individuals in complex employment cases involving discrimination, civil and constitutional rights, breach of contract, covenants to not compete, employment-r...

George is passionate about achieving the best practical result, but he tries not to lose sight of humor and humanity in the process. He has been practicing law for over four decades and focuses on litigating, arbitrating, and mediating business and construction disputes. His trial experience is extensive and multi-faceted, before juries and arbitrators alike throughout New England and New York, including numerous construction and design claims, some involving tens of millions of dollars; prod...

After twelve years of practicing both civil and criminal trial law, Colin was appointed a Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court in 1990. During his seventeen years as a Judge, he sat on every assignment (civil, criminal, juvenile and family), and was Presiding Judge from 2000 to 2005. On returning to Osborn Maledon in 2007 after his retirement from the Bench, Colin has had an active commercial and public law trial practice.

Ken Carlson is a senior litigator who has successfully defended companies in virtually every aspect of employment law. He also has a strong practice in drafting employment contracts, independent contractor agreements, and noncompetition agreements, combined with a significant amount of work involving trade secret and noncompetition law. In addition to his litigation practice, Ken regularly advises employers on how to avoid problems before they occur, and helps companies protect their intellec...

Chalk is a 1973 graduate of University of Texas School of Law (J.D.), with prior M.A. (1967) and B.S. (1962) degrees from Tennessee Tech University, and A.A. degree (1956) from Freed-Hardeman College. Prior to joining in 1986 Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC, Fort Worth, Texas, and its predecessors, Chalk was President of Dabney Capital, Dallas, Texas (1984-86) (real estate finance), General Counsel and Vice President of LaJet, Inc., Abilene, Texas (1978-84) (petroleum refining and ...

After leading BigLaw teams for years in high stakes and precedent setting cases in U.S. courts and international arbitration tribunals, Mr. Chao in May 2019 launched a boutique enabling him to sit as arbitrator, mediator, and special master, and to handle selected litigation matters. He was a partner for 29 years at a 1,000 lawyer global firm, where he founded and led the international litigation and arbitration practice; and for 6 years, he served as the U.S. head of the international arbitr...

LEE CHRISTIE, Indianapolis, is a partner with Cline Farrell Christie & Lee, P.C. His practice focuses on personal injury litigation, wrongful death and alternative dispute resolution. Mr. Christie received his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, and earned his law degree from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. A frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars, Mr. Christie has presented on the topics of punitive damages, tort law, alternative disp...

Based in our Houston office, Paul Clote has been a litigation attorney handling trials and appeals for more than four decades. His cases involve commercial and business disputes across a variety of industries. He has tried to verdict in both state and federal courts, cases entailing fiduciary duties; partnership termination and windup; letters of credit; business fraud and civil theft; trust account funds; broker commissions; ERISA disability benefits; child abuse; minimum wage and overtime c...

As leader of the Labor and Employment Practice Group in Dickinson Wright’s Phoenix office, Sam Coffman has over 30 years of experience counseling employers in all areas of employment law, including management and labor practices, hiring, discipline, terminations, terms of employment, and the review and drafting of employment policies, manuals and employee contracts. His strong employment-related litigation background includes representing clients in Title VII claims, breach of contract ...

Stew Cogan is in his twenty-eighth year as a full-time arbitrator and mediator, following twenty years practicing primarily business, corporate, and real estate law. Stew has arbitrated more than 300 cases and mediated more than 3,500 cases. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in both the Mediation and Arbitration categories. He was named by Best Lawyers as the Arbitration Lawyer of the Year in Seattle in 2016, 2020, and 2022, as the Mediation Lawyer of the Year in Seattle in 2017 and...

Christopher Cole, partner, has practiced labor and employment law since 1992. For more than two decades, Mr. Cole has defended Hawaii employers against lawsuits involving allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation, discrimination, whistleblowing, trade secret/non-compete agreement enforcement, tort, and breach of contract. Mr. Cole is also experienced in labor arbitration, mediation, workplace investigations, FLSA wage and hour compliance audits, workplace violence, drug-testing policies, ...

M. Dawes Cooke, Jr.’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation, professional liability defense, and personal injury litigation. He is also a much sought after mediator and arbitrator. He is admitted to the South Carolina Bar, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court Bar. Cooke is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. He holds a Martindale-Hubbell Pre...

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Terrence Lee Croft has been a trial lawyer for over 40 years. He is one of Georgia's most successful ADR neutrals, having resolved more than 3,500 mediations and arbitrations. A graduate of Yale University and The University of Michigan Law School, with distinction, he has served as President of the Atlanta Bar Association, and its charitable Foundation. He was Chairman of its Litigation and ADR Lawyers Sections and the State Bar of Georgia's ADR Section. He is a Fellow of the American Colleg...

Taylor Tapley Daly is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP practicing in Atlanta in the areas of commercial litigation, product liability, dispute resolution and collaborative law. Ms. Daly was admitted to the Bar in 1979.

In complex business, technology, and intellectual property matters involving parties and interests around the country and beyond, John DeGroote has served as a mediator and arbitrator in significant disputes since 2013. His experience as a litigator, corporate counsel and business executive brings rare and valuable perspective to dispute resolution. Mr. DeGroote previously served as chief litigation counsel to KPMG Consulting, LLC/BearingPoint, Inc., a $3 billion global consulting firm with a...

With more than 40 years in the legal industry, Greg David Derin, Esq. joined Signature Resolution as a mediator and arbitrator in 2020. For nearly 20 years, Mr. Derin has successfully assisted parties in resolving more than a thousand complex matters. He is often called upon to resolve disputes after previous attempts have failed. Parties consistently attribute their successful resolutions to Mr. Derin's persistence, attentive and open facilitation of a process designed to encourage creative ...

Roger Dickson, a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, concentrates his practice on litigation with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes, white collar crime, healthcare, personal injury and products liability. He has handled major civil litigation for the world's largest soft drink bottling company and has served as lead national counsel defending publicly traded consumer products companies in hundreds of pharmaceutical product liability cases. He also represents a publicly t...

"As a mediator or arbitrator my goal is to have the perspective, persistence, and patience to resolve business disputes and settle cases effectively." With more than 40 years of experience as a litigator representing both plaintiffs and defendants, I know business issues. This wealth of experience and knowledge now serves as the foundation for successfully resolving disputes through alternative dispute resolution (ADR). I am a leading provider of commercial litigation ADR services and have an...

After more than three decades litigating, arbitrating and mediating complex business disputes, Neal launched Eiseman ADR LLC to serve as a full-time neutral arbitrator and mediator. As an advocate,he specialized in the construction and real estate industries, representing real estate developers, lenders, owners, construction managers, contractors, sureties, manufacturers and design professionals. For 2022-23, Neal is the President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, an invitation-only f...

Honorable Mark B. Epstein became counsel to Hoagland Longo on June 1, 2005, upon his retirement from the New Jersey Superior Court bench. His practice is focused on arbitration, mediation and acting as special discovery/allocation master (SDM). Judge Epstein's last judicial assignment was to the Chancery Division, Middlesex County Superior Court. Previously, he served in the Civil Part of the New Jersey Superior Court for 10 years, where he was designated as the total handling judge for envir...

For over 25 years, Dawn's practice has focused on trial work, representing a variety of large and mid-sized corporate clients in claims involving a wide range of litigation topics. Dawn is an AV Preeminent® rated lawyer with a proven ability to manage and resolve sophisticated disputes. Dawn is comfortable in state and federal courts and arbitrations. Dawn serves as a court-appointed mediator, and she also serves on the American Arbitration Association's National Panel of Commercial and E...