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NAME/ADDRESS/PHONE ADMISSIONS EDUCATION BACKGROUND ADR EXPERIENCE

ADELSON, MARCIA L., Esq.

61 High Street

Tarrytown, NY 10591

Phone: 917-699-3685

E-Mail:[email protected]

Website: www.marciadelsonlaw.com

N.Y.: 2003

S.D.N.Y.: 2004

E.D.N.Y.: 2017

Swarthmore College,B.A., 1983

Columbia University,M.B.A., 1987

Pace University, J.D.,2002

Marcia L. Adelson, Esq. (2003-present) -Provide mediaiton and arbitration services insecurities, financial, employment, contract, andgeneral commercial matters.

Eppenstein and Eppenstein (2003-2004, 2008-2013) –Represented domestic and internationalclients in a range of complex litigation andarbitration matters, including commodities andsecurities fraud, stockbroker abuses, securitiesindustry and other employment disputes, andgeneral commercial litigation.

American Express Financial Advisors, Inc.(1990-2002) – Financial planner for more than100 clients and with $20 million undermanagement.

In compliance with the requirements ofPart 146 of the Rules of the ChiefAdministrative Judge for conductingmediation in the Commercial DivisionADR Program.

Member SDNY and Westchester CountySupreme Court Commercial and CivilDivision mediaition panels.

AAA Roster of Neutrals (Commercial)

FINRA, NFA

Ninth Judicial District – Part 137Attorney-Client Fee Program.

New Jersey Superior Court, Civil,Mediator Pro Bono counsel, EDNY,Mediation Advocacy Program.

AGRIS, CHERYL H., Ph.D., Esq.

Agris & von Natzmer, LLP

43 West 43rd Street, Ste. 104

New York, N.Y. 10036

N.J.: 1992 N.Y.: 1993US Patent andTrademark Office:1990 (agent) and 1993(attorney)SDNY: 2004

Goucher: B.A., 1979,General Honors andHonors in Chemistry

The Johns HopkinsUniversity: Ph.D.,Biochemistry, 1986

Partner, Agris & von Natzmer (2012-present);Cheryl H. Agris, PhD, Attorney at Law (1998-present); Arbitrator/Mediator, Self-Employed(2000-present); Patent Attorney, Novo Nordiskof North America (1992-1998); Law Clerk,Biotechnology Group, Pennie & Edmonds(1988-1992); Research fellow, Sloan Kettering

In compliance with the requirements ofPart 146 of the Rules of the ChiefAdministrative Judge for conductingmediation in the Commercial DivisionADR Program.

Received training from ICC, EDNY, AAA

Updated 03/04/2021 Active List

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.marciadelsonlaw.com

Phone: 646-593-7855

Fax: 646-365-6405

E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Website: www.agrisvonnatzmerlaw.com

EDNY: 2004Brooklyn Law School: J.D., 1992; Dean’sScholarship, 1989-1992, Dean’s List-1989-1991

Institute (1986-1988). 30+ years of experiencein the IP field. Has represented large andmedium sized corporations, startups anduniversities and other nonprofit entities. Areasof expertise include Biotechnology; Chemicals;Pharmaceuticals; Trade Secrets; Licensing,Joint Venture, Research and Development,Distribution, Manufacturing, Consortium,Employment and Consulting Agreements;Intel lectual Property (Patents andTrademarks); Inventorship Disputes; TradeSecret Disputes; Contract Disputes; FinancialInstruments (Securities).

(have received training in e-discovery) ,FINRA, NY Supreme Court (AdvancedCommercial Mediation Training, 2008),NJ Institute of Continuing LegalEducation NJ Association of ProfessionalMediators and Westchester MediationCenter of Cluster (Certified Mediator).

Panelist on the EDNY Mediation andArbitration Panels, 2004-present; Memberof NY Supreme Court, CommercialDivision Mediation Panels in NY,Westchester and Queens Counties, 2004-present; Member of the Eastern (EDNY)and Southern (SDNY) District of NewYork’s Bankruptcy Mediation Panels,2009-present; AAA (member ofcommercial, complex litigation,, jointventure, mergers and acquisitions andconsumer panels) 2004-present(arbitration); AAA mediator (2017-present); International Institute forConflict Prevention & Resolution( C P R ) ( G e ne ral , B io t e c hno l o g y ,Healthcare, and Life Science Panels),WIPO (World Intellectual PropertyAssociation (2004-present); NationalFutures Association, (NFA) Arbitrator,2002-present; FINRA Arbitrator, 2000-present. Listed with the United StatesCouncil for International Business(USCIB) of the International Chamber ofCommerce as an Arbitrator and Mediator,2004-present



http://www.agrisvonnatzmerlaw.com

ALCOTT, MARK H., Esq.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &Garrison

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, N.Y. 10019-6064

Phone: 212-373-3179

Fax: 212-492-0179

E:mail: [email protected]

Website: www.paulweiss.com

N.Y.: 1965

D.C.

S.D.N.Y. & E.D.N.Y

2d, 9th, 10th & D.C.Cirs.

U.S. Sup. Ct.

U.S. Ct. Int. Trade

U.S. Tax Ct.

U.S. Court of Appeals,1st, 7th & 11th Circuits

Harvard

Harvard Law School

Paul Weiss (Partner, 1973-2009)(Of Counsel(2010-date). President, New York State BarAssociation. State Delegate (NY), AmericanBar Association. Arbitrator, AAA, ICDR. Member, Commercial Court AdvisoryCouncil.

Mediator, Commercial Division, SupremeCourt, NYC

Mediator, US District Court, SDNY

In compliance with the requirements ofPart 146 of the Rules of the Chiefmediation in the Commercial DivisionADR Program.

Trained in mediation, USDC, SDNY.Mediator, USDC, SDNY. Member, ADRAdvisory Group, Commercial Division,Supreme Court, New York County.

Arbitrator, Civil Court, Small ClaimsDivision.

Arbitrator, Fee Dispute Resolution cases

Special Master, Supreme Court, NYCounty, Appellate Division, FirstDepartment.

ALTMAN, EMILY , Esq.

45 Sutton Place South

New York, NY 10022

Email: [email protected]

NY: 1981 Harvard College A.B.

Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.

Columbia Law Review

Clerkship, Chief Judge

Jack B. Weinstein,

Federal District Court

for Eastern District of

New York

Straus Institute for

Dispute Resolution,

Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase; Morgan

Stanley; Davis Polk & Wardwell (corporate,

banking, securities);

As a mediator, specializes in all types of

business disputes–from complex financial cases

to corporate, partnership and family conflicts

and employment, real property, insurance and

other controversies.

Specialized in domestic and international

financial transactions, including public

offerings, mergers and acquisitions, syndicated

bank loans, debt restructuring, securitization,

joint ventures, export credit and other

corporate transactions for multinational and

domestic corporations, financial institutions

and sovereigns.

•Special Master, Appellate Division, First

Department

•FINRA Arbitrator

•Advanced Commercial Mediation, New

York City Bar Association;

•Advanced M ediator Training ,

International Institute for Conflict

Prevention & Resolution (CPR);

•Commercial Mediation, New York State

Bar Association;

•Basic Mediation: Conflict Resolution

Theory & Techniques, New York City Bar

Association;

•Advanced Divorce Mediation, Ackerman

Institute;

•Safe Horizon Community Mediation

Training.



http://www.paulweiss.com


ALVAREZ, ERIN GLEASON, Esq.

Gleason Alvarez ADR, LLC

2781 Bedford Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11210

Phone: 646-653-2374

E-mail: [email protected]

Joined ADR Program 2019

New York, 2001

S.D., N.Y., 2002

E.D., N.Y., 2002

LLM, 2006

City University of New

York School of Law,

J.D., 2000

State University of New

York at Albany, B.A.,

1996

U.C., Berkeley, A.B.,

AIG (2007-2017) - Served as Global Head of

ADR Programs, overseeing mediation and

arbitration best practices and strategies across

the organization. This included designing

dispute resolution systems across a wide

breadth of claims; development and delivery of

mediation, negotiation and arbitration training

for thousands of employees; created

negotiation planning strategies; drafted and

reviewed arbitration and dispute resolution

provisions for commercial contracts and

insurance policies; participated in vetting and

selection of mediators and arbitrators.

JAMS (2006) - LLM Externship - Shadowed

mediators and arbitrators in insurance,

commercial, entertainment, and employment

proceedings for one year.

White & Case (2004-2005) - Defended

depositions, conducted document review and

assisted in preparation of expert witnesses for

securities class action litigation.

Leeds, Morelli & Brown (2001-2003) -

Represented clients in direct negotiation and

mediation of employment matters.

In compliance with the requirements of

Part 146 of the Rules of the Chief

Administrative Judge for conducting

mediation in the Commercial Division

ADR Program.

Full time mediator and arbitrator. As

mediator, facilitated negotiations relating

to insurance coverage, personal injury,

construction defect and contract disputes.

Served as an arbitrator in matters relating

to shareholders, contracts, and corporate

transaction disputes and in emergency

arbitration proceedings.

•AAA Commercial Arbitration Panel

•CPR Institute Panel of Distinguished

Neutrals

•CPR Institute Mediation Committee

Chair

•CPR Institute Mediator Certification

•New York City Bar Association

President’s Committee Co-Chair

Previously served as Adjunct Professor at

Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution,

Pepperdine University School of Law.



AMINI, BIJAN, Esq.

Amini LLC

116 West 23 Street

Suite 500

New York, NY 10011

Office: 212-490-4700

Direct: 212-497-8217

Fax: 212-490-4208

E-Mail: [email protected]

Website: www.aminillc.com

D.C.: 1982

N.Y.: 1985

U.S.S.C.:

E.D.N.Y.:

S.D.N.Y.:

District Court, D.C.

2nd Cir.:

3rd Cir.:

9th Cir.:

11th Cir.:

1976

University of Michigan,

M.A., 1978

University of Michigan,

J.D., 1981

Amini LLC (2019-present) founding member

and executive officer with a national complex

commercial trial practice in the civil and

bankruptcy contexts. Mr. Amini has extensive

trial, arbitration and mediation experience as

counsel to both plaintiffs and defendants, and

has also served as a neutral in many cases. His

practice has focused on commercial and

bankruptcy trials and encompassed corporate

governance, securities, employment,

professional malpractice, intellectual property

and estate matters. Mr. Amini has appeared in

multiple state and federal trial and appellate

courts and has conducted multiple federal and

state trials. Prior to his present firm, Mr.

Amini was an executive officer at Storch

Amini P.C. (1993-2019), and an associate with

Beigel & Sandler (1989-1992), Fried Frank

Harris Shriver & Jacobson (1984-1989) and

Arnold & Porter (1982-1984).





ADR Program.



http://www.storchamini.com

ARTAL, ORNA, Esq.

Ramos Artal LLC

535 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10017

Phone: 212-433-2945



N.Y.: 2005

S.D.N.Y.: 2019

Brooklyn Law School,

JD, 2005

University of Southern

California, BA, 2001

Principal Law Clerk to Hon. Charles Ramos,

Commercial Division, New York County (year-

2018) - Researched legal issues and advised the

Justice on complex commercial actions

involving insurance coverage and subrogation,

reinsurance, securities, finance, banking, real

estate transactions, construction disputes, art

law, professional malpractice, licensing,

business dissolution, derivative actions,

mergers and acquistions, business torts and

fraud.





ADR Program.

Co-founder of a mediation and arbitration

firm that provides mediation, arbitration,

and neutral evaluation services to private

parties in commercial disputes.



AUSTIN, MARY K., Esq.

730 Columbus Avenue, 6H

New York, NY 10025

Phone: 412-759-1985 (preferred) and

212-222-2864


Joined ADR 02/27/18

NY: 1980

PA: 1987

SDNY: 1980

EDNY: 1980

Western District, PA:

1987

U.S. Court of Appeals,

Third Circuit: 1993

U.S. Court of Appeals,

Fourth Circuit: 1985

Court of International

Trade: 1983

U.S. Supreme Court:

2000

University of Michigan

Law School, J.D., cum

laude, 1979

Wellesley College, A.B.,

Wellesley Scholar, 1976

Awards:

•Finalist for Athena

Award in 2008

•Pennsylvania Legal

Aid Network

Excellence Award in

2012

Mary K. Austin, Attorney at Law (2013 to the

present). Neutrals practice with particular

emphasis on commercial, health care and

employment matters. University of Pittsburgh

Medical Center (2000-2013) - Associate counsel

and then senior associate counsel supervising

litigation and alternative dispute resolution of

health care and commercial matters including

contracts, leases, construction, employment

agreements, regulatory issues, insurance, and

various commercial transactions.

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC (1987-

2013) - Commercial ligitation associate and

then commercial litigation partner (1990-2000)

with a caseload that included breach of

contract, antitrust, restrictive covenant,

products liability, intellectual property and

insurance issues.

Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol

(1981-1987) - Litigation associate with a

caseload that included breach of contract,

securities fraud, intellectual property, antitrust,

pension, product liability, environmental, real

estate, employment and preemption matters.

Chadbourne & Parke (1979-1981) - Litigation

associate with a caseload that included

contract, employment, product liability,

antitrust, and creditors rights issues.





ADR Program.

Mediator, arbitrator and attorney with

extensive experience in a wide variety of

commercial, health care and employment

matters. Member on the following panels:

Commercial Division Mediation Panel,

AAA Commercial and Health Care

Arbitration Panels, Neutrals Panel of the

American Health Lawyers Association

(Arbitration and Hearing Officer), FINRA

Arbitration Panel, EDNY Mediation

Advocacy Panel, WDPA Panel of Neutrals

(Mediation, Arbitration, and Early

Dispute Resolution), University of

Pittsburgh Medical Center Intermediation

Panel; Joint Committee on Fee Disputes

and Conciliation Arbitrator and Mediator.



BAKER, WILLIAM H., Esq.

Baker ADR

71 Birch Brook Road

Bronxville, NY 10708

Phone: 212-731-4952

Fax: 914-337-776


Website: www.bakeradr.com

CA: 1972

MA.: 1974

ILL.: 2001

N.Y.: 2005

Yale

Harvard Law

Baker ADR (2016-present); Alston & Bird,

LLP (2007-2015); Fish & Neave and then

Ropes & Gray following their merger (2004-

2007); positions prior to that included being

Head of Litigation for Sears for four years and

13 years as a partner with a major Boston law

firm.

Currently specializes in ADR. Previously

engaged in a patent and other IP litigation and

before that broadly diversified general

commercial and tort litigation practice

including contact disputes, construction

matters, products liability, international

arbitration, real estate disputes, trade secret

cases, general corporate disputes and class

actions.

Previously Adjunct Professor at Cardozo Law

School teaching Dispute Resolution.

Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Certified Mediator





ADR Program.

•Mediation training (24 hrs basic and 16

hrs advanced commercial), CPR and

WIPO.

•On mediation panels for S.D.N.Y.,

E.D.N.Y, IDCR, AAA, ICC and WIPO.

•Selected by the World Bank in 2012 to

make a presentation to law and business

school faculties in Beirut, Lebanon

regarding he benefits of incorporating

mediation into their curricula.

•Listed multiple times in Best Lawyers in

America in areas of International

Arbitration and ADR.

•Judge/mediator multiple times at the

Int e rnat ional M ediat io n M o o t

Competition, Paris, France


http://www.bakeradr.com

BAUM, SIMEON H., Esq.

Resolve Mediation Services, Inc.

1211 Avenue of the Americas


Phone: 212-355-6527

Fax: 212-753-0396

E-mail:

[email protected]

Website: www.disputeResolve.com

www.mediators.com

N.Y.:1983

S.D.N.Y.: 1984

E.D.N.Y.: 1984

Colgate: B.A.

Fordham: J.D.

General business litigation at, inter alia,

Certilman, Haft, Balin, Buckley, Kremer &

Hyman. Private practice, 1993-date. Has

handled wide range of business litigation,

including in the areas of complex

commercial disputes, contracts, securities and

business fraud, unfair competition, intellectual

property, construction, commercial real estate,

highly complex insurance and reinsurance

disputes.





ADR Program.

Certified mediator, Commercial Division.

Member, ADR Advisory Group,

Commercial Division.

Co-presenter, the Mediation Workshop

(25 hrs.) sponsored by the Commercial

Division, June 1999 and Feb. 2000.

Trained in ADR, EDNY workshop.

Workshop in Small Claims Arbitration.

ADR Committee work, ABA & New York

County Lawyers' Association. Mediator,

EDNY, SDNY, and NYC Civil Court

(Small Claims). Neutral Evaluator, EDNY.

Arbitrator, Supreme Court matrimonial

fee dispute and small claims. Served as a

neutral in over 60 disputes, 1993-1995,

involving contracts, fraud, banking,

ERISA, suretyship and other issues.

Attended mediation workshop sponsored

by Commercial Division, 1996.

BEANE, LEONA, Esq.

233 Broadway - Ste. 2340


Phone: 212-608-0919

Fax: 212-233-3801


Website: www.mediate.com/beane

www.nadn.org/leona-beane

N.Y.: 1969

S.D.N.Y.

E.D.N.Y.

U.S. Sup. Ct.

City College: B.B.A.,

M.B.A.

Columbia: M.S.

New York Law School:

J.D.

Professor of Law, Baruch College, currently

Professor Emeritus (taught courses in

contracts, partnerships and corporations).

Wrote several articles, books and chapters

relating to contracts, corporations,

partnerships. Was Chair of the ADR

Committee at New York County Lawyers

Association for 4 years. Member, NYS Dispute

Resolution Section, Executive Committee (10

years); Member, NY Women’s Bar Assoc. (Co-

Chair, ADR Committee, Member, Board of

Directors).





ADR Program.

Mediator, U.S.D.C., S.D.N.Y. and

E.D.N.Y.

Member, Roster of National Academy of

Distinguished Neutrals. Completed Basic

and Advanced Certified Mediation

Training. Have completed well over 300



http://www.disputeResolve.com

http://www.mediators.com


http://www.mediate.com/beane

http://www.nadn.org/leona-beane

hrs. of certified Mediation training

including Abrams Mediation &

Negotiation Advanced Skills Training (co-

sponsored by NASD & the Bankruptcy

Courts (2005); Assoc. of Bar - Mediation

Training - Conflict Resolution; Columbia

University School of Law, Mediation

Clinic for Safe Horizon Mediation

Program; Competed Safe Horizon

Mediation Certification Program, which

included apprenticeship and videotape

exam; Center for Mediation in Law and

CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium;

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission, Mediation Training at the

EEOC; Mediation Inc., Mediator Training

for Court Ordered Mediation in N.C. Jan

206; “Decision Tree Analysis for

Mediators” 2008; plus additional trainings

& numerous CLE programs.

Has coached and facilitated mediation

training several times; regularly serves as

a facilitator for the Commercial Division

Training.

Mediator certified by the N.C. Dispute

Resolution Commission to mediate cases

in the Superior Court Civil Division;

Mediator & arbitrator, Attorney Fee

Disputes; serves as Arbitrator for several

different forums including FINRA. Has

mediated over 300 cases to date involving

partnership & corporate disputes,

business contracts, employment; trusts &

estates, plus many other types of disputes.

Have written articles on Mediation;

Author of Mediation Chapter in New

York Lawyers Practical Skills Series

(NYSBA) updated yearly.


BENNETT, STEVEN C., Esq.

Park Jensen Bennett, LLP

40 Wall Street

New York, NY 10005

Phone: 212-200-6345

Fax: 212-200-6346


N.Y.: 1985

S.D.N.Y.: 1986

E.D.N.Y.: 1987

2ND Cir.: 1991

6th Cir.: 1999

W.D.N.Y.: 2002

Macalester College,

B.A., 1979

N.Y.U., J.D., 1984

Park Jensen Bennett, LLP (2014-present) -

Partner in complex commercial litigation

practice focusing on bankruptcy, construction,

data protection, e-discovery, and domestic and

international arbitration.

Jones Day (1994-2014) - Associate and then

partner (1997) in commercial litigation

including construction practice group, data

action response team, and global disputes

practice group; chair of e-discovery committee.

Office of the United States Attorney, Southern

District of New York (1988-1994) - Assistant

United States Attorney and Chief, Tax and

Bankruptcy unit (1992-1994). Sullivan and

Cromwell (1986-1988) - Litigation associate.





ADR Program.

•Advocate in numerous proceedings.

•AAA commercial arbitrator. Hearing

officer in two settled RICO cases.

•Advocate in numerous mediation

proceedings.

•Co-chair of the NYSBA committee on

ADR in the Courts (a sub-committee of

the Dispute Resolution Section).

•Joined the Association for Conflict-GNY

and attend monthly breakfast/learning

programs

•Written an article on mediation that will

be published in the Dispute Resolution

Journal.

•Conducted a webinar on mediation

ethics.

BERDON, ALLAN J., Esq.

14 Nosband Avenue

White Plains, NY 10605

Phone: 914-949-5578


N.Y.: 1963

S.D.N.Y.: 1964

E.D.N.Y.: 1964

2d Cir.: 1968

4th Cir.: 1978

5th Cir.: 1978

D.C. Cir.: 1980

U. Mich.: B.B.A., 1959

Columbia: J.D., 1962

Private practice in own firm, concentrating in

complex commercial litigation and appeals in

areas such as the Securities and Exchange Acts,

contracts, fraud, shareholder accounting and

disputes, and professional malpractice; direct

involvement in financial investigations (1984-

present); Hill, Betts & Nash, associate and

partner, complex commercial litigation, as well

as international, regulatory, and transportation

litigation (1963-1984)





ADR Program.

Certified Mediator, S.D.N.Y., 1995-

present; Member, Advisory Committee,

Commercial Division, New York County,

ADR Panel; Arbitrator and Chairman,

NASD, 1990-1998; Arbitrator and

Chairman, AAA, Commercial Arbitration

Tribunal, 1992-1995.

Attended Advanced Commercial

Mediation Training, sponsored by

Commercial Division, New York County

(8 hrs), April 1, 2010.







(8 hrs), April 8, 2010.


BERKOWITZ, MORRELL I., Esq

Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP

845 Third Avenue 8th Floor


Phone: 212-935-3131 x 303

Fax: 212-935-4511


N.Y.: 1975 Fairleigh Dickinson:

B.A. (cum laude)

Boston College: J.D.

Partner, Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP (2003-

present) specializes in real estate related

l i t igat ion including condominiums,

cooperatives, real estate partnerships, and real

estate transaction disputes; Sole practitioner

(1994-2003) specializing in commercial and real

estate related litigation and appeals;, Rudes,

Lax , Berkowitz & Mittman, P.C.

(1984-1994)founding litigation parther;

Herzfeld & Rubin (1979-1984) litigation

associate doing commercial and bankruptcy

litigation and appeals; spent two years doing

Criminal Appeals at the Legal Aid Society.





ADR Program.




(16 hrs), May 27 & June 3, 2009.

Attended Commercial Division Mediation

Workshop (24 hrs.), Feb. 2000.

Appointed Special Master, Supreme

Court, New York County.

Mediator on Commercial Panel, New

York County since May, 1997.

1994-date, Member, Register of

Mediators, U.S. Bankruptcy Court,

S.D.N.Y.



BERMAN, MARJORIE, Esq.

Krantz & Berman

747 Third Avenue, 32nd Floor

New York, NY 10017

Phone: 212-661-0009

E-mail:

[email protected]


New York, 1990

SDNY, 1990

EDNY, 1990

United States Court of

Appeals, Second

Circuit, 1994

United States

Supreme Court, 2000

Columbia University,

J.D., 1989 - Harlan

Fiske Stone Scholar

Brown University, B.A.,

1983 - Phi Beta Kappa;

magna cum laude

Krantz & Berman (1997-present) Partner &

Co-Founder of firm focused on commercial and

employment litigation, employment counseling,

and white-collar criminal defense. Clients

range from Fortune 500 companies to small

businesses and individuals.

Leventhal & Slade (1990-1996) Associate and

Partner in practice primarily litigating

commercial and employment cases.

Super Lawyers 2011-2019; Top 50 Women

Lawyers Metro Area 2014-2017





ADR Program.

Member: S.D.N.Y. mediation panel (2011-

present) and E.D.N.Y. mediation panel

(2016-present); Private Mediator

BERMAN, SCOTT M., Esq.

Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman

LLP7 Times Square

New York, N.Y. 10036-6516

Phone: 212-833-1120

Fax: 212-373-7920


N.Y.: 1983

S.D.N.Y.: 1983

E.D.N.Y.: 1983

Dist. Colombia:1985

Emory University:

B.A., 1979

NYU: J.D. , 1982

Partner, Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman

(2005-present). Partner, Brown Rudnick

Berlack & Israels. Kaye, Scholer, Counsel.

Commercial litigation in state and federal

courts and in arbitrations, in substantive areas

including corporate, securities, bankruptcy,

banking, contracts and real estate.





ADR Program.

BERNBAUM, PETER JAY, Esq.

5 Acker Drive

Rye Brook, N.Y. 10573

Phone: 914-939-1909


N.Y.: 1975 Harvard College: A.B.

University of

Pennsylvania Law

School: J.D.

Cornell University

[Scheinman Institute on

Conflict Resolution,

School of Industrial &

Labor Re l at ions ] ,

C e r t i f i c a t e i n

Workplace Conflict

M a n a g e me n t a n d

Alternative Dispute

Resolution

Adjunct Professor, St. John’s University School

of Law (2010-present).

Adjunct Professor, Drexel University, Westphal

College of Media Arts & Design, Graduate

Program in Television Management (2012 to

present)

Private law practice (1986-present)

concentrating in business, corporate, contract,

and transactional matters, cable television,

broadcasting, and electronic media including

mergers and acquisitions; purchase, sale and

financing agreements; employee and

shareholder matters; domestic and

international sales, manufacturing, and

licensing agreements; television programming

and retransmission consent agreements.





ADR Program.

•Mediator, S.D.N.Y

•Mediator, AAA, New York Storm Sandy

Mediation Program.

•Mediator, N.Y.S Unified Court System,

Westchester County.

•Mediator, U.S. Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission, New York

Office.

•Hearing Officer for NYS and Local

Retirement System

•Arbitrator, Attorney Client Fee Dispute




Prior experience:

Associate, Spitzer & Feldman (1982-1986)

concentrating in corporate and commercial

law; Corporate Counsel, Warner Amex Cable

Communications (1980-1982); Associate, Rubin

Baum Levin Constant and Friedman (1975-

1980) concentrating in corporate and

commercial law.

Resolution Program if N.Y.S. Unified

Court System.

•Completed more than 200 hours of

training in mediation and alternate

dispute resolution.

BERNE, CLEMENT H., Esq.

600 Third Avenue - 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10016

Phone: 212-310-5906

Fax: 646-626-6419


N.J.: 1976

N.Y.: 1977

Oberlin College: A.B.,

1973

New York University:

J.D., 1976

Extensive commercial litigation, appellate and

transactional experience in law firm and in-

house settings.

Private practice since 2008.

Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School,

since1987.

Previously: of counsel, Troutman Sanders and

predecessors Jenkens & Gilchrist and Parker

Chapin (Complex Litigation Dept.); Vice

President-Legal, R.H. Macy & Co., Inc.; Vice

President-Legal & Business Affairs, American

Family Enterprises, a subsidiary of Time Inc.;

Associate, Pollack & Kaminsky; Assistant

Attorney General, New York State (Litigation

Bureau); Law Clerk, New Jersey Superior

Court (Beglin, J.); Adjunct Assistant Professor

of Economics, Hunter College.

Substantive areas varied, and include

contracts, commercial real estate, UCC,

business torts, employment (on behalf of

employers and employees) and consumer law

(on behalf of business and consumers).





ADR Program.

BLECHMAN, MICHAEL, Esq.

Mediator and Arbitrator

50 Neustadt Lane

Chappaqua, NY 10514

Cell phone: 201-522-6584

N.Y.: 1967

U.S. Sup. Ct.: 1971

S.D.N.Y.: 1973

2nd Cir.: 1975

9th Cir.: 1977

7th Cir.: 2000

10th Cir.: 2001

Dist. Ct. CO: 2001

Harvard College, B.A.,

1962

Freie Universitat

Berlin, Fulbright

Fellowship, 1962-1963

Harvard Law School,

Kaye Scholer LLP (now Arnold & Porter Kaye

Scholer, LLP) 1966-2016) [Partner 1975-2010;

Special Counsel 2011-2016]. Almost 50 years

experience representing clients in all types of

commercial litigation, arbitrations, and

administrative proceedings. Has represented

clients in all types of commercial litigation,

arbitrations, and administrative proceedings,





ADR Program.

•Member SDNY panel of mediators and a

Special Master for the Appellate Division,



E-mail: michael.blechman@mdb-

adr.com

D.C. Cir.: 2004

N.D.N.Y.: 2006

J.D., 1966 including cases involving antitrust, contract,

fraud, unfair competition, and other

international and domestic disputes. Has also

represented and advised many foreign and

domestic companies in connections with

international mergers and acquisitions and

joint ventures.

First Department.

•AAA Mediation Panel

•Has served as mediator in more than 30

cases.

•Various publications in the US and

Europe concerning aspects of ADR and

taught ADR-related courses at

Fordham Law School and as a visiting

professor in Hungary and Russia.

BOWLER, ANNE MARIE, Esq.

Gabay & Bowler PC

291 Brodway, Suite 1901

New York, NY 10007

Phone: 212-941-5025

Fax: 212-202-3883



New York: 2001 Brooklyn Law School,

J.D., 2000, cum laude

•Dean’s Merit Scholar;

CALI Excellence for

the Future Award,

Labor Law

•Siena College, B.A. in

Social Work, 1997,

magna cum laude

•Dean’s Scholar

•Gabay & Bowler (2006-present) - Founding

partner of firm specializing in litigating

commercial disputes in state and federal

courts. Practice areas include: business

disputes, investments, contracts, employment

matters, fraud and insurance coverage.

•Proskauer (litigation associate 2002-2003;

senior litigation associate 2006-2007) -

Litigated commercial disputes in state and

federal courts.

•Chambers of Chief Judge Judith Kaye

(2003-2005) - Senior law clerk.





ADR Program.

Mediator - New Jersey Civil Court

(2010)

BOYCE, CYNTHIA L., Esq.

269 St. James Place

Brooklyn, NY 11238

Phone: 917-674-1324

E-mail: Cynthia@boyce-and-

associates.com

Joined ADR Program July 2020

New York, 1985

E.D.N.Y., 1994

S.D.N.Y., 2016

Harvard Law School,

J.D., 1984

Wharton Graduate

School, MBA, 1981

Johnson & Johnson

Leadership Scholarship

Cornell University,

B.A., 1975

magna cum laude

Phi Beta Kappa

Cynthia L. Boyce & Associates (2015-present;

1991-2011) - President of a firm with a practice

principally devoted to providing ADR services

such as mediation and arbitration. She has

represented clients in a variety of matters,

including, but not limited to: discrimination,

contract negotiations and disputes, business

formation and disputes, visual art businesses,

non-profit formation and management, real

estate, foreclosure, guardianship, construction,

securities, taxation, health insurance, and

educational rights.

New York City Tax Commission (1993-2001) -

Commissioner appointed by the Mayor to

preside over tax cases.

Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine (1987-1989)





ADR Program.

Member of the following mediation

panels:

•E.D.N.Y.

•S.D.N.Y.

•Bankruptcy Court, E.D.N.Y.

•Bankruptcy Court, S.D.N.Y.

•Bronx Supreme Civil Mediation Program

Former member of the following panels:

•AAA

•FINRA







- Tax associate principally involved in tax

planning and analysis.

Coudert Brothers (1985-1987) - Tax associate

principally involved in tax analysis for foreign

corporations and transnational transactions.

Has privately mediated family and

business disputes.

•Arbitration Panels: She served as Chair

and sole arbitrator for NASD and AAA

arbitrations.

•Prudential: A tripartite committee,

representing Prudential Life Insurance

Company of America, Policyholder-

Plaintiffs and a Multi-state Life Insurance

Task Force, selected Cynthia L. Boyce as

an Appeals Committee Reviewer.

BREWSTER, Richard W., Esq.

Brewster ADR

1215 Fifth Avenue, Apt. 14C

New York, NY 10029

Phone: 917-647-3205



New York: 1968

S.D.N.Y.: 1974

E.D.N.Y.: 1974

United States Court of

Appeals, Second

Circuit: 1975

Harvard Law School,

J.D., and LLB, 1967

Princeton University,

B.A., 1964

Over four decades of experience in:

•Civil commercial litigation and criminal

defense (Richard W. Brewster, P.C. - 1993 to

2001)

•Complex commercial litigation and appeals

(Moses & Singer - litigation partner - 1979 to

1991)

•General corporate and securities practice

(Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy - associate

-1968 to 1974)

US Attorney’s Office, EDNY: Chief, Criminal

Division (1978 to 1979); Asst. US Attorney

(1974 to 1979)

NYS Attorney General’s Office: Asst. Attorney

General and Deputy Bureau Chief, Litigation

Bureau (2001-2014)

NYS Attorney General’s Office: Special

Litigation Counsel (2014-2016)





ADR Program.

Mediator in Civil Court and Small Claims

Court (New York County and Kings

County)

BROADMAN, HON. HOWARD R.

Howard R. Broadman Law

Corporation

625 W. 57 Street, Ste. 1816

California, 1976

New York, 2018 (not

licensed)

University of

Wisconsin Law School,

J.D. (with honors),

1975

Mediation and arbitration practice (1999-

present) - Serve as private mediator and

arbitrator in a full range of cases including

class actions, contract disputes, property and







New York, NY 10019

Phone: 559-738-1800

E-mail:

[email protected]

m


Michigan State

University, B.S. (with

honors), 1971

leasehold disputes, construction disputes,

insurance coverage, commercial matters

including UCC, partnership disputes, and

personal injury cases. Also serve as a judicial

referee.

•Judge of the Tulare County (Calif.) Superior

Court 1988-1999

•Judge of the Visalia (Calif.) Municipal Court

1986-1988

•Attorney (1984-1986) - Solo litigation practice

•Hurlbutt, Clevenger, Long & Vortman (1977-

1984) Associate and then partner

•Ernst & Ernst (1976-1977)Staff accounting in

major CPA firm

ADR Program.

•Member of mediation panels for Fresno,

Tulare, and Kern County Superior Courts

(conduct at least 300 mediations per year)

•Member of the Mediation and

Arbitration panels of the American

Arbitration Association.

BRODSKY, DAVID M., Esq.

Brodsky ADR, L.L.C.

270 Riverside Drive, Apt. 2D

New York, NY 10022

Phone: 917-463-0086

E-mail:

[email protected]

N.Y.: 1968

S.D.N.Y.: 1968

E.D.N.Y.: 1972

2nd Cir.: 1974

U.S.Sup. Ct.: 1997

Brown University,

B.A., 1964

Harvard University

Law School, J.D., 1967

Brodsky, LLC (2012-present) mediator and

arbitrator; Latham & Watkins (2001-2012)

partner with a practice concentrating on

complex commercial federal and state

litigation. Federal Grand Jury, SEC and

FINRA investigations. Civil and criminal trials

and arbitrations; Credit Suisse First Boston

(1999-2002) managing director and general

counsel supervising over 200 legal and

compliance personnel in the United States,

Canada and Brazil; Schulte Roth & Zabel

(1980-1999) partner with a practice

concentrating on complex commercial federal

and state litigation, federal, state and

regulatory investigations and trials;

Guggenheimer & Untermeyer (1973-1980)

partner and associate; Assistant U.S. Attorney,

Southern District of New York, (1969-1973);

Law Clerk to U.S.D.J. Dudley Bonsal, S.D.N.Y.

(1967-1969).





ADR Program.

Mediator on panels for the Southern

District, New York and the U.S.

Bankruptcy Court for the Southern

District; Mediator for the Appellate

Division, First Department; Distinguished

Neutral on the Panels of Hedge Funds.

General Counsel, Banking and Financial

Services and New York Regional for

Institute for Conflict Prevention and

Resolution (CPR).

Member of the FedArb panel as a

mediator and arbitrator

Privately retained as a mediator in over 80

cases, both pre-litigation and during

litigation.





BROGAN, LISA., Esq.

565 Plandome Road, Ste. 157

Manhasset, N.Y. 11030

Phone: 516-672-2851


N.Y.: 1983

S.D.N.Y: 1983

E.D.N.Y.: 2009

Georgetown U.: B.A.,

1979

Fordham Law: J.D.,

1982

A practicing attorney for 26 years, working

primarily as general counsel for private

companies. Has mediated over 400 cases since

2009, with expertise in a broad range of

commercial, contract, and employment

matters.





ADR Program.

Performs mediation for:

-New York Supreme Court Commercial

Division - New York, Queens, Suffolk

and Nassau Counties

-New Jersey Civil Courts (statewide)

-New York State Public Employment

Relations Board

-SEIU 32BJ and the Realty Advisory

Board

-Cornell Employment Mediation Panel;

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

-Nassau County Bar Association ADR

Tribunal

-Grievance Mediation Committee of

Nassau County

-Member: AAA Mediation Panel

BUNIM, MARK J., Esq.

Case Closure LLC

708 Third Avenue, 6th Floor

New York, NY 10017

Phone: 212-683-0083

Fax: 646-810-3997


Website: www.caseclosure.com

N.Y. 1975 NYU: B.A., 1971

Rutgers: J.D., 1975

Case Closure LLC, 2005 - date: full- service

commercial mediation company, specialize in

business, insurance-related, and family

disputes, as well as labor/employment issues,

and land-use disputes. Partner, Bryan Cave:

commercial litigation, insurance coverage for

all types of losses, professional liability claims,

securities and real estate litigation, 1996-2005.

Ohrenstein & Brown: insurance coverage,

professional liability, computer, and civil rights

litigation, 1980-96; O’Melveny & Meyers:

antitrust litigation, 1977-81. Special Asst. A.G.,

State of N.Y., Office of Special Prosecutor,

1975-77. Numerous publications and





ADR Program.




(16 hrs), May 27 & June 3, 2009.

Mediator certified by Center for Public

Resources (mediation training, 25 hrs.).




http://www.caseclosure.com

CAMP, ALIDA D., Esq.

114 East 84th Street

New York, New York 10028

Phone: 212-517-2080

Fax: 212-628-5990


N.Y.: 1981

S.D.N.Y.

E.D.N.Y.

CA: 1986

C.D.CA

US Court of Appeals

for the Second Circuit

FINRA

SUNY Binghamton:

B.A., 1976

Columbia: J.D., 1980

presentations on insurance litigation issues,

including pre-indemnification, RICO, D&O

insurance, risk management, structural

settlements and other topics.

Has mediated over 300 commercial and

insurance cases since 2005.

Mediator, 1995-date. Arbitrator, 1999-date.

Entertainment Business Consultant, 1995-date.

Film Producer, Los Angeles, 1990-1995;

negotiated principal talent, financing and

distribution agreements. General Counsel,

Concorde-New Horizons Picture Corp., Los

Angeles, 1987-90; handled all litigation,

negotiated and drafted settlement agreements

and motion picture production, financing and

distribution agreements. Assistant Professor of

Business Law, University of Michigan School of

Business Administration, 1983-1986.

Commercial litigator, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman,

Hays & Handler, 1980-1983.

Arbitrator and Mediator AAA large

complex and regular commercial panels.

NYC Bar Association Condo mediation

panel member.

Fedarb arbitration and mediation panel.

•Attended Advanced Training for

Commercial Division Mediators sponsored

by the New York State Unified Court

System (8 hrs.) April, 2008.

•Extensive mediation experience in art,

insurance, talent/agency, commercial cases

involving finance and securities,

employment (discrimination, hostile

environment, compensation, termination),

entertainment, textiles, technology,

consulting and construction matters.

•Panel of mediators, AAA, CPR, U.S.D.C.,

E.D.N.Y., Commercial Division, EEOC,

FINRA, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Panel of mediators for Los Angeles

County Superior Court. Completed 100

hours in Negotiation, Mediation and

Advanced Mediation at Pepperdine

University Straus Institute of Dispute

Resolution, 1995, 1997. Panel of

mediators, FINRA.

•Arbitrator, AAA, CPR, FINRA, Small

Claims Court. Completed arbitrator panel

and chairperson training presented by the

FINRA, 1999, 2000.



CARLING, FRANCIS, Esq.

Mediation and Arbitration

174 East 74th Street - Ste 12 BC

New York, NY 10021-3553

Phone: 212-628-3026

Fax: 212-249-7471

Cell: 917-951-1237


Website:

www.newyorkpeacemaker.com

CT.: 1970

U.S.D.C.: CT, 1971

N.Y.: 1972

S.D.N.Y.: 1972

E.D.N.Y.: 1972

2d Cir.: 1972

U.S. Sup. Ct.:: 1973

DC Cir: 1976

3rd Cir.: 1980

W.D.N.Y.: 1981

6th Cir.: 1986

4th Cir.: 1990

N.D.N.Y.: 1991

Fordham College:

A.B., 1967

Yale Law School:

J.D.,1970

Full-time mediator and arbitrator. Partner,

litigation, Collazo Carling & Mish, LLP, 1997-

2007. Partner, litigation, Winthrop, Stimson,

Putnam & Roberts, 1982-97; Associate, 1980-

82. Associate, litigation, Sullivan & Cromwell,

1972-80. Staff lawyer, civil litigation, New

Haven Legal Aid Bureau, 1970-72. Authored

“Seven Habits of Ineffective Advocates in

Mediation,” American Bar Association

(January 2008 article).





ADR Program.

Mediation training, SDNY (16 hrs), 1992.

Mediation training, SDNY (8 hrs), 1993.

Court Appointed Mediator, S.D.N.Y.:

1992-present.

Mediation Trainer, U.S. Dept. of Justice:

1998.

Public Arbitrator, National Assoc. of

Securities Dealers and New York Stock

Exchange (now consolidated as FINRA

Dispute Resolution): 2002-present.

Served in 57 cases as mediator, both in the

SDNY and privately.



http://www.newyorkpeacemaker.com

CLAMAN, RICHARD L., Esq.

Stempel, Bennett, Claman &

Hochberg, PC

675 Third Ave., 31st Floor


Phone: 212-681-6500

Fax: 212-681-4041


N.Y.: 1981

S.D.N.Y.

E.D.N.Y.

N.D.N.Y.

US Sup. Ct.

Others

Harvard College

Harvard Law School

Partner in charge of litigation practice, with

special emphasis on commercial real estate

litigation. Associate, Rosenman & Colin,

1981-1989.





ADR Program.




(16 hrs), May 27 & June 3, 2009.


Workshop (24 hrs.), Feb. 2000.

Participated as counsel in ADR

proceedings.

COHEN, LAWRENCE A., Esq.

Rankow, Cohen & Isaac, P.C.

166 East 61st Street, Ste. 9C

New York, NY 10065

Phone: 212-889-0320


N.Y.: 1955

S.D.N.Y.: 1955

E.D.N.Y.: 1955

U.S.C., B.A., 1951

Harvard Law School,

LLB., 1954

Partner in Rankow, Cohen and Isaac, P.C.,

from 1955 through 2002. Wide experience in

commercial litigation, including class actions,

business negotiations, real estate transactions,

and criminal and constitutional law issues.





ADR Program.

Full time arbitrator for the American

Arbitration Association from 2002-2009.




COHEN, ROBERT G., Esq.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP

51 West 52nd Street


Phone: 212-506-3720


N.Y.: 1977

S.D.N.Y.: 1978

E.D.N.Y.: 1978

2d Cir.: 1981

U.S. Ct. Claims

N.Y.U.: A.B., 1971

Brooklyn: J.D., 1976

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP

(2010-present.) Deputy General Counsel for

litigation, Ernst & Young (1994-2010); with

E&Y since 1987. Commodity Futures Trading

Commission, 1981-87 (Regional Counsel,

1985-87). Assistant District Attorney, King's

County, 1976-78, 1980-81. Law Office of David

Berenson, 1978-80.





ADR Program.




(8 hrs), May 27, 2009.

Attended Advanced Training for




Attended Basic Commercial Mediation

Training, sponsored by Commercial

Division, New York County (24 hrs.) 2002.

COHEN, SAARA B., Esq.

15 West 81st St., 9J


Phone: 212-665-4336


N.Y.: 1981

S.D.N.Y.

E.D.N.Y. 2d Cir.

N.Y.U.: B.A.

N.Y.U., Graduate

School of Ed.: M.A.

Cardozo: J.D., 1980

Volunteer Attorney at Legal Services for

Children, 2003-present. 2000-02, Assistant

Vice-president, Special Assets Dept., Mizuho

Corporate Bank, Ltd. 1998-2000, Associate

Attorney, litigation, Shatz Meier Franzino &

Scher, LLP. 1985-89, Assistant Vice-president,

Loan Workout, Chemical Bank. 1981-85,

Classified loan officer, Marine Midland Bank.

Expertise in bankruptcy, Chapter 11,

negotiating debt collection.




(8 hrs), May 27, 2009.

Attended Advanced Training for




Mediation Training Intensive Course,

Center for Mediation and Law, December

2003 (36 hrs.).



COLOMBARO, HON. BILLIE

161 East 110th Street, Apt. 2A

New York, NY 10029

Phone: 212-600-1085


Website: judgecolombaro.com

Louisiana Dist.,

Appellate & Supreme

Courts, 1982

College of William &

Mary, B.A., 1967

Loyola School of Law,

J.D., 1981

U. of Virginia School of

Law, LLM, 1998

Appellate Court Judge, Louisiana Third

Circuit Court of Appeal (1992-2004)

Private Practice (1982-1992) - General civil solo

trial practice.





ADR Program.

American Arbitration Assoc. - Arbitrator

on Commercial and Employment Panels.

American Arbitration Association’s

Judicial Settlement Conference

She is also a Mediator and Arbitrator for

the American Arbitration Association on

the following panels: commercial,

employment, international and appellate.




COTTRELL, JANE R, Esq.

5951 Route 82

Stanfordville, NY 12581

Phone: 917-575-4424


CURE, IRA, Esq.

161 Remsen Street, Apt. 4C

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Phone: 646-734-8456


N.Y.: 1982

S.D.N.Y.: 1982

E.D.N.Y.: 1982

N.Y.: 1984

N.J.: 1989

S.D.N.Y.

E.D.N.Y.

W.D.N.Y.

N.D.N.Y.

D.N.J.

2d. Cir.

2rd. Cir.

5th Cir.

U.S.S.C.

U. of Utah: B.A., with

honors, 1970

U. of Utah: M.A.,

Sherman Brown Neff

Fellowship, 1971

Columbia Univ.: J.D.

S.U.N.Y. Binghamton:

B.A., 1975

U. Mass. at Amherst,

M.S., 1977


J.D., 1983

Combined law and mediation practice in

England and the United States, 2001-present;

Vice-President and General Counsel for CBS

Cable, 1989-2000; Associate Counsel for

Cablevision Systems Corp., 1984-88; Litigation

Associate, Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, 1981-

84.

Executive directorship of the Mediation Center

of Dutchess County.

Self employed mediator/arbitrator since June,

2010. Member, National Academy of

Arbitrators. Senior Counsel for the Writers

Guild of America East (2008-2010), enforcing

collective bargaining agreements and handling

general labor law and intellectual property

issues; Counsel to Broach & Stulberg (2005-

2008), representing public and private sector

unions in the entertainment, construction, and

utilities industries; Partner in Kennedy,

Schwartz & Cure (1995-2005), litigating and

negotiating for clients in both state and federal

courts and before the NLRB and PERB;

Associate and then Partner in Lewis,

Greenwald, Kennedy, Clifton & Schwartz

(1984-1995), litigation labor and employment

disputes in both state and federal courts.





ADR Program.

“Coaching through Conflict,” School of

Psychotherapy and Counseling, Regents

College, London, England (16hrs).

Facilitative Mediation Techniques, School

of Psychotherapy and Counseling, Regents

College, London England (16 ½ hrs).

Completed mediations in England and the

United States.





ADR Program.

•AAA and EDNY Storm Sandy mediation

panels.

•FINRA mediator.

•SDNY Mediation Panel

•Nassau, Queens, and Westchester

Commercial ADR Panels. New York

Public Employment Relations Board, New

Jersey Public Employment Relations

Commission, New York City Office of

Collective Bargaining, National Mediation

Board.

•Member of the Mediation Panel for the

United States Court for Eastern District of

New York




DEITZ, ROGER M., Esq.

477 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Phone: 212-838-2288

Fax: 212-838-1064


Website:

https://www.deitzmediation.com

N.Y.: 1969 Brown University: 1965

Cornell Law School:

1968

Roger M. Deitz is a full-time independent

neutral. During the past 25 years he has

successfully mediated over 1,750 complex and

multi-party disputes including contracts,

distribution agreements, securities ,

commodit ies , intel lectual property,

misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright,

professional liability, real estate, entertainment

partnerships and joint ventures, employment,

banking, accounting, mass and class actions,

sales of business, throughout the United States

and internationally.

Former Senior Trial Counsel of the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission.

Has served as:

Chair, ADR Committee of the Assoc. of the Bar

of the City of New York,

Chair, Mediation Subcommittee of the

National Association of Securities Dealers

National Committee on Arbitration and

Mediation;

Co-chair of the Subcommittee for Commercial

Disputes of the State of New York Unified

Court System Alternative Dispute Resolution

Advisory Committee.

Is a fellow of the American College of Civil

Trial Mediators.

Distinguished Neutral of the CPR International

for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.

Member, CPR National Panel of Distinguished

Neutrals and its panels on Banking and

Financial Services, Employment Disputes and

Insurance.





ADR Program.

Director: Ethical Culture Fieldston

Schools, Seeds of Peace, Senator George J.

Mitchell Scholarship Institute.

Trained as a mediator at Harvard Law

School.

Mediator for:

United States District Court, Eastern

District & Southern District,

United States Bankruptcy Court for the

Southern District of New York,

FINRA

NYS Supreme Court, Commercial

Division, New York County,

the Department of Justice,

NYS Society of Public Accountants.

Special Master of the Supreme Court of

the State of New York, Appellate Division



https://www.deitzmediation.com

DELEHANTY, JOHN M., Esq.

Managing Member, Arbitrator and

Mediator

133 Woodlawn Avenue

New Rochelle, NY 10804

Phone: 212-692-6703

Mobile: 914-645-3711

Fax: 212- 983-3115

E-mail:

[email protected]

N.Y.: 1971

3rd Cir.: 1972

S.D.N.Y.: 1973

E.D.N.Y.: 1973

2ND Cir.: 1975

U.S. Sp. Ct.: 1984

Fed. Cir. Ct. of

Appeals: 1989

4th Cir.: 1996

Brown University, B.A.,

1966

Univ. of Chicago Law

School, J.D., 1996

Currently Managing Member of Delehanty

Resolutions, LLC

Partner in the following firms:

- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Feris, Glovsky and

Popeo, P.C. (Retired March 2018).

- O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell (1995-1999).

- Morrison & Foerster, (1987-1995).

- Parker Auspitz Neeseman & Delehanty (1977-

1987).

-Associate with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton &

Garrison (1970-1977)

Over 40 years’ experience as a trial lawyer

litigating substantial intellectual property,

antitrust, and commercial matters through

trial and appeal in state and federal courts.

Clients have included major industrial,

pharmaceutical, energy, and financial services

companies, sports teams, and airlines.

•American Arbitration Association, Roster

of Neutrals

•CPR Institute, Distinguished Neutral

•FINRA, Roster of Arbitrators

•US International Trade Commission,

Section 337 Mediator

•WIPO, Roster of Neutrals

•Chair (2014-2016) and Vice-Chair (2012-

2014), ADR Committee of American

Intellectual Property Law Association

(“AIPLA”)

•Member, Arbitration Committee,

Association of the Bar of the City of New

York

•Lecturer on mediation and arbitration at

AIPLA Licensing Executives Society,

Intellectual Property and ADR Sections of

American Bar Association, Association of

Corporate Patent Counsel. Author of

CPR Protocol for Mediating Patent cases.

•Co-author, Sedona Conference, Best

Practices in Patent Mediation.

Handled numerous mediations and

arbitrations as advocate and neutral.

De RAVEL d’ESCLAPON, PIERRE

F., Esq.

33 Riverside Drive, Apt. 11A

New York, NY 10023

Phone: 212-769-2766



N.Y.: 1975

S.D.N.Y.: 1982

Court of International

Trade: 1980

Federal Circuit: 1984

Harvard Law School,

LLM, 1970

University of Montreal,

LLL (JD), 1969

HEC Paris, 1965-1966

University of Besancon,

B. Math, 1962

Retired senior partner of Dewey & LeBoeuf.

Full-time independent arbitrator and mediator.

Types of cases mediated recently: loan

restructurings, re-mediation liability for oil

spills under the Navigation Law, M&A (breach

of warranties and representations, material

adverse change clauses); business divorces

(valuation of membership interests, conflicts

between members, apportionment of liabilities

amongst members), valuation of shares of

closely-held corporations, breaches of fiduciary





ADR Program.

•FINRA Public Arbitrator

•CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals,

Panel on Banking, Accounting, Financial

Services

•ICC Arbitrator




duty, misappropriation of corporate

opportunity, tortious interference with

contractual relationships, Subcontractor-

Owner apportionment of liability for injuries to

subcontractor’s employee, interplay between

Owner’s strict liability under the Labor Law

and the subcontractor’s insurance policy.

Owner-Contractor disputes relating to scope of

work and approval of work orders, impact of

stop work orders on completion schedule.

Owner-Construction Manager (CM)

Guaranteed Maximum Price Contract disputes

over whether certain work constituted a change

order, effect of wrongful termination of

contract, liability for CM’s lost profit, claims

by Owner for excess costs. Subrogation rights

of insurer of non-participating subcontractor

in Contractor Controlled Insurance Program

(CCIP).

Insurance: denial of coverage issues for failure

by insured to notify carrier of litigation against

insured. Liability of surety of failed

subcontractor to prime contractor for cost of

completing the subcontracted work.

Fishing rights disputes between neighboring

towns, publisher-composer disputes over music

royalties, real estate tax assessment challenges,

sales of tax liens, real estate tax exemptions for

charities, hotel tax liability for internet travel

companies, medical malpractice.

As counsel, I have advised clients on a wide

variety of transactional matters across many

industries: energy trading under the Edison

Electric Institute (EEI) Master Agreement,

energy producers on power generation,

•National Futures Public Arbitrator

•Special Master First and Second

Departments Appellate Division, NY

Supreme Court

•Roster of mediators, Commercial

Division for Suffolk County

•Roster of Mediators US Bankruptcy

Court for SDNY

•Roster of Mediators, FINRA

•AAA Roster of Commercial Mediators

•AAA National Roster of Arbitrators,

Commercial Panel

•WIPO Roster of Neurtals

•Panelist, Panel of Recognized

International Market Experts, P.R.I.M.E.

•Finance, The Hague


transmission and distribution, power purchase,

agreements, O&M contracts, financial

institutions on securitizations, on derivatives

governed by the ISDA Master Agreement,

computer equipment leasing, fashion licenses

and trademark copyright infringement issues.

DIBENEDETTO, JOSEPH, Esq.

President, JDB Mediation, LLC

380 Rector Place, Suite 5P


Phone: 646-236-2976

Website:

[email protected]


N.Y.: 1971

S.D.N.Y.: 1972

E.D.N.Y.: 1972

2ND Cir.: 1984

3rd Cir.: 1994

Fed. Cir.: 2002

7th Cir.: 2008

P r o H a c V i c e

admission in various

district and state

courts , inc luding

California, Illinois,

Florida, New Jersey,

Indiana, Pennsylvania,

D e l a w a r e a n d

Tennessee

St. John's Univ.: B.A.,

cum laude, 1967

St. John's Univ.:

J.D., 1970. Graduated

2nd in class of 287;

Managing Editor, St.

John’s Law Review.

Former Member, Board

of Trustees, St. John’s

Law School Alumni

Association; former

President, St. John’s

Law Review Alumni

Association

Commercial litigation in NYC for 46 years,

with experience in almost all types of

commercial matters, including: 1) contracts

and letters of intent; 2) UCC and sale of goods;

3) class and derivative actions; 4) shareholder

and partnership disputes; 5) mergers and

acquisitions, including breach of reps and

warranties; 6) fraud, interference and other

business torts; 7) accountant and attorney

liability; 8) employment agreements, covenants

not-to-compete, and labor law (wage and hour)

issues; 9) bank litigation; 10) insurance; 11)

environmental; 12) product liability; 13)

consumer law and false advertising; 14) surety

and fidelity bonds; 15) federal and state

securities laws; 16) real estate disputes,

including title insurance and marketable title

issues; 17); CMBS warranty claims; 18)

foreclosures of commercial, mixed use, and

residential buildings; and 19) Article 9

foreclosure of security interests on personal

property.

Retired partner, Winston & Strawn LLP and

its predecessor firm, Cole & Dietz, 1970-2016;

member of Litigation Steering Committee; and

Chair of New York litigation department.

More detailed information regarding

affiliations, publication, and lectures is

available at: www.JDBMediation.com

Exclusively devoted to mediation since

January 2016; began mediating

commercial cases in 1996.

Mediated over 160 cases through federal

and state court ADR programs and

private retention. Participated in over 30

mediations as counsel to a litigant.


Workshop (24 hrs.), Feb. 2000; Advanced

Training in Mediation, (4 hrs.), May 2006;

and Advanced Commercial Mediation

Training (8 hrs.) May 2009, all sponsored

by Commercial Division New York

County; also attended 20 hours of

Commercial Mediation Training

sponsored by ABA Section on Litigation,

and other ADR courses on commercial

and FLSA mediation offered by the

U.S.D.C, Eastern District of New York

ADR Program, the NYSBA and other

CLE providers.

•Member, NYSBA Section on Litigation,

Subcommittee on ADR; Author, NYSBA

Deskbook and Formbook Chapters on

Arbitration




http://www.JDBMediation.com

DICAPRIO, ANTHONY, Esq.

DiCAPRIO MEDIATION GROUP

64 Purchase Street

Rye, New York 10580

Phone: 917-439-5166

E-mail:

[email protected]

m.

New York (June 1983)

U.S. Supreme Court

(October 2012)

Federal District Court

New York, Eastern,

N o r t h e r n , a n d

Southern Districts

Columbia Univ. College

of Law, LL.M., 2000

Syracuse Univ. College

of Law, J.D., 1982

S t . L a w r e n c e

University, B.A., 1980

Practice primarily to mediation, conflict

resolution and international human rights

impact litigation. Experience in complex

multiparty international disputes and more

than thirty-five years as a litigator motivates

ADR practice and he resolution of complex

disputes efficiently and appropriately through

communication, thought and insight. Mediated

more than one hundred twenty cases.

ADR Practice Areas

•International Human Rights: Extractive

industry-host community disputes, gross

human rights violations and remedies;

•FLSA

•Employment and Civil Rights: class actions,

discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful

termination, wrongful arrest, excessive force,

malicious prosecution, ADA

•Commercial: international, class actions, tort,

personal injury, multi-party motor vehicle,

contract, corporate, partnership, real estate,

insurance, general liability, extractive industry,

unfair competition

•Family and Domestic Relations Law: all areas

•Community Disputes

ADR Consultant, Memberships, Lecturer

•CUNY Law School Adjunct Professor

Mediation Lawyering Seminar (Spring 2019);

Attorney Supervisor and Instructor (Spring





ADR Program.

Mediation Experience and Court Panels:

•District Court S.D.N.Y.- Mediation Panel

(2015-present): active panel member,

mediated more than 40 cases

•S.D.N.Y. Mediator Evaluator and

Trainer (2017-present): evaluated on-

boarding mediators for competency and

mentored panel mediators to enhance

their mediation skills

•N.Y.C. Supreme Court Commercial

Division Mediation panel (2016-present):

mediated commercial cases in the areas

noted infra

•Westchester & Rockland County

Mediation Center (2014-present):

mediated in excess of 70 cases; trained,

evaluated and mentored mediators for

certification as a Part 146 Certified

Mediator

•Private Mediation Practice (2017-present)




2018)

•CUNY Law School Mediation Clinic (Bronx

and Queens County Civil Court) Attorney

Supervisor, Instructor and Evaluator (Fall

2017 and Fall 2018)

•Co-presenter, 32hr CLE-Accredited Basic

Mediation Course for Community Mediators

and Lawyers; worked with co-presenter to

design and present training (November &

December 2018)

•Co-presenter to SDNY ADR Panel Members,

CLE course on Joint Session Strategies;

worked with co-presenter to design and present

the training for this course (December 2018)

•NYCBA ADR Committee and ADR Diversity

Subcommittee (2018-2021)

•SDNY MAC member (2016-2018)

•NYC Department of Human Rights Conflict

Trainer (2017)

•NYCBA Advanced Commercial Mediation

CLE Evaluator and Coach (2016 & 2018)

•Mediation consultation includes high profile

multi-party international litigation (specifics

subject to confidentiality agreement) and

domestic litigation (2016-present)

EAGLE, BART J., Esq.

Scarola Zubatov Schaffzin

1700 Broadway, 41st Floor

New York, NY 10019

Phone: 212-586-0052

Fax: 212-757-0469

N.Y.: 1981

S.D.N.Y.: 1983

2ND Cir.: 1990

U.S. Sup. Ct.: 2000

Queens College,

C.U.N.Y., B.A., 1977

U. Miami School of

Law, J.D., 1980

Bart J. Eagle represents clients in federal and

state courts, before administrative tribunals,

and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.

He has handled a wide variety of business

litigation matters including disputes resulting

from commercial financing relationships;

shareholder and partnership disagreements;

fiduciary relationships; license and distribution





ADR Program.

•AAA Roster of Mediators

•AAA, “Super Storm Sandy” mediations

•Panel of Mediators - NYCBA Co-op and



Website: www.barteaglelaw.com

agreements; employment relationships; the

purchase and sale of a business; and a myriad

of other contractual issues. Mr. Eagle has also

represented victims of fraud, including

securities fraud and Ponzi schemes.

Mr. Eagle has been selected as one of New

York’s Super Lawyers in business litigation.

Mr. Eagle is the Chair of the New York City

Bar Association (NYCBA) State Courts of

Superior Jurisdiction Committee, a member of

the NYCBA’s Council on Judicial

Administration and Efficiency Working

Group, and the New York State Bar

Association (NYSBA) Commercial and Federal

Litigation Section.

Mr. Eagle has negotiated and drafted

commercial agreements including factoring;

license; employment; severance; distribution;

asset purchase; collaboration; service;

shareholder; operating; and partnership

agreements.

Mr. Eagle also serves as a mediator and

arbitrator. He is on the roster of mediators

and arbitrators of the American Arbitration

Association, and the rosters of mediations of

the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court

of the State of New York, County of New York,

and the Coop and Condo Panel of the NYCBA.

Mr. Eagle is co-chair of the NYSBA Dispute

Resolution Section’s Mediation Committee, a

member of the NYSBA Dispute Resolution

Section’s Executive Committee and ADR in the

Courts Committee and is a former member of

the NYCBA Alternative Dispute Resolution

Committee.

Mr. Eagle is admitted to practice law in the

Condo Mediation Project

•Member, NYSBA Dispute Resolution

Section and Mediation Committee

•Member, NYCBA Alternative Dispute

Resolution Section

•Basic Mediation Training: Conflict

Resolution Theories and Techniques

(ABCNY) 26.5 hrs

•Advanced Commercial Mediation

Training, 17 hrs

•Mediation Skills Apprenticeship (Safe

Horizon) 42 hrs

•On the Panel of Mediators of the

Southern District of New York

•Member of the NYCBA President’s

Committee for the Efficient Resolution of

Disputes.



http://www.barteaglelaw.com

United States District Courts for the Southern

and Eastern Districts of New York, before the

Supreme Court of the United States, as well as

in the State of New York..

ECHEVARRIA, MARGARITA, Esq.

43 W 43rd Street, Suite 178

NY, NY 10036

Phone: (201) 381-9993

E-mail:

[email protected]

Joined ADR Program March, 2020

ECKMAN, AMY K., Esq.

161 West 61st Street, Suite P-2C

New York, NY 10023

Phone: 603-512-4687


New Jersey, 1978

New York, 1990

N.Y.: 1979

N.H.: 1980

N.H.D.C.: 1980

S.D.N.Y.

E.D.N.Y.

Rutgers-State

University of NJ,

B.A., 1973

Rutgers-Newark

Law School,

J.D., 1977

Vassar Coll., A.B.,

1975

Fordham U., School of

Law, J.D., 1978

Vice President Insurance Compliance, TIAA

and TIAA Life, 2011-2016;

Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice

President, HSBC Insurance Services, 2001-

2010;

Vice President and Associate General Counsel

GE Capital Life Assurance Company of New

York, 2000-2001

Compliance & Insurance Planning, Prudential

1996-1999;

Counsel /Associate General Counsel, Mutual

Benefit Life Insurance Company, 1979-

1996.

M o r e t h a n 2 0 y e a r s o f b r o a d

corporate/commercial experience primarily in

Insurance firms handling all manner of

litigation concerning contract disputes

including insurance claims, real estate disputes,

debt collection, copyright infringement, and

breach of commercial contracts.

Experienced in drafting contracts including

insurance and reinsurance policy provisions,

commercial vendor and Agent employment

agreements. Additional legal representation in

bankruptcy, real estate transactions and

consumer cases.

President/VP and General Counsel, Eckman

Construction Company, Inc., 1984-2008;

Sulloway, Hollis and Soden (associate 1980 -

1984); Greenberg, Irwin, Pellman & Slade, and

Alexander and Green (associate 1978-1980

Extensive experience in both business and ADR

as owner of a construction company for 25

years and arbitrator for the AAA since 2004).

Commercial Arbitrator 2000-Present

(FINRA);

American Arbitration Association,

Commercial Panel: 2017-Present

Westchester County Commercial Division

ADR Panel - 2019

Mediator for New Jersey Courts: Hudson,

Bergen , Essex

Completed over 100 hours of training with

American Arbitration Association, FINRA

(including chairperson training), Justice

Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of

Courts for ADR,

NY City Bar Association, NY State Bar

Association, and American Bar

Association (ADR Section)





ADR Program.

•NYSBA Commercial Mediation training

(24 hrs.); Straus Institute for Dispute




ENGELSTEIN, DANIEL, Esq.

Levy Ratner, P.C.

80 Eighth Avenue, Suite 800

New York, NY 10011

Phone: 917-363-3013


N.Y.: 1980

Massachusetts: 1977

District of Columbia:

1981

S.D.N.Y.: 1980

E.D.N.Y.: 1983

2d Cir.: 2011

Boston College Law

School, J.D., 1976

summa cum laude Law

Review

Brandeis University,

B.A., 1972

Co-Author, “White Paper on the Benefits of

Alternative Dispute Resolution for resolving

Construction Disputes,” New York Dispute

Resolution Lawyer, New York State Bar

Association, vol.4, no.2, Summer 2011.)

2019 to date - Retired Senior Counsel, Levy

Ratner, P.C.

1996 to 2918 - Levy Ratner, P.C.

1979 to 1996 - Vladeck, Waldman, Elias &

Engelhard, P.C.

As principal at both firms, represented labor

resolution, Pepperdine Law School

“Mediating the Litigated Case” (42 hrs.);

AAA Advanced Mediator Training.

•Member, ABA Dispute Avoidance and

Resolution and NYSBA’s Dispute

Resolution Sections (Construction

Industry and Real Property Law).

AAA arbitrator on numerous commercial,

construction and real estate disputes in

New York City since 2004.

As a member of the S.D.N.Y. mediation

panel since 2012, has conducted more

than 20 mediations.

Mediated several cases privately.

Facilitated the repair of a city-wide

collective bargaining relationship over a



or

[email protected]

Joined ADR Program January 2020

cum laudeunions, employees, and employee benefit funds

in a wide variety of industries and forums.

•1977 to 1979 - National Labor Relations Board

•Staff Counsel to Board Member John A.

Penello

•1976 to 1977 District Attorney for Suffolk

County (Boston, MA)

•Assistant District Attorney

six-month period.

Member of FINRA arbitration panel.

Private arbitration.

ESTERMAN, PAMELA R., Esq.

Sive Paget & Riesel, P.C.

560 Park Avenue – 15th Floor

New York, NY 10022

Direct number: 646-378-7212

Phone: 212-421-2150

Fax: 212-421-1891

Cell number: 917-951-4700


FEERICK, KEVIN P., Esq.

Feerick Law Office

236 West 26th Street - Suite 303

New York, NY 10001

Phone: 914-261-6118

Fax: 646-365-5181

N.Y.: 1984

N.J.: 1984

S.D.N.Y.: 1984

E.D.N.Y.: 1984

D.N.J.: 1984

N.Y.

S.D.N.Y.

E.D.N.Y.

University of New

Hampshire: B.S., 1979

S.U.N.Y., College of

Environmental Science

and Forestry: M.S.,

1983

Syracuse University

School of Law: J.D.,

1983

Fordham College:

B.A., 1968;

Fordham School of

Education: M.S., 1971;

Fordham Law School:

J.D., 1982

Private practice law and mediation at Sive

Paget & Riesel, P.C., 1986-present. Mediated

over 400 cases since 1990. Cases include

environmental, construction, insurance

coverage, employment, land use, professional

liability, civil rights, FLSA, real estate,

landlord tenant, class actions, condemnation,

disputes arising out of contracts and toxic torts.

Adjunct Professor in Dispute Resolution, Pace

Law School. Acting Village Justice, Ocean

Beach, NY. Have written and lectured

extensively on ADR and Ethics related topics.

Member ABA Dispute Resolution Section, Co-

Chair, ABA Section on Environment ADR

Committee.

Private practice, 2000-present, principally in

representation of corporate and individual

insurance related matters including coverage,

employment and personal litigation;

Consultant negotiation trainer to FBI

undercover program, 1994-present; Managing

counsel, Mitsui Marine Claims Service Corp.,

1990-2000, product liability, D&O, and





ADR Program.

Attended 26-hour Commercial Mediation

Training and Advanced Commercial

Mediation Training at NY City Bar;

Mediation Trainer, NY City Bar 1992-

present; Attended Advanced Commercial

Division Mediation Training-2008-2010;

Member NY, Westchester and Queens

Commercial Division ADR panels;

Member SDNY and EDNY Mediation

panels (1990-present); Member NJ

Superior Courts Mediation Panel;

Attended Numerous Mediation Training

Programs Sponsored by SDNY, EDNY

and D NJ, and various Bar Associations.





ADR Program.

•Attended Advanced Commercial







Website: www.feericklaw.com

insurance coverage claims management; Senior

Attorney, NYS Supreme Court Disciplinary

Committee, 198901990; Account Executive,

Prudential Bache, Holland, 1986-1989;

Attorney, Costello & Shea, 1983-1986, products

liability, corporate and securities litigation;

Adjunct Professor of Business law at Webster

University, Leijden, NL.

(8 hrs), May 27, 2009.

•Attended Advanced Training for




•Advanced Training in Mediation, NY

Com Div (4 hrs.), 5/22/06

•Completed Mediation Training , Harvard

Law School, 1993, 1994, 1996 & 1997

FEINBERG, MARTIN L., Esq.

365 South End Ave. - #6H

New York, N.Y. 10280-1043

Phone: 212-432-0873


FELDMAN, MICHAEL E., Esq.

14 Booth Road

Roxbury, CT 06783

Phone: 1-917-693-3232


N.Y.

E.D.N.Y.

S.D.N.Y.

2d Cir.

N.Y.: 1969

S.D., N.Y.:

Harpur College: B.A.

George Washington:

MBA

Catholic Univ: J.D.,

1983

NYU Law School:

LLM

Queens College, B.S.,

1966


J.D., 1969

Law review editor. Associate, Mudge Rose

Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, 1983-88, civil

litigation. Enforcement Division, SEC, 1988-94.

Private practice, 1994-date, specializing in

representing plaintiffs in securities fraud cases

and persons before the SEC.

Proskauer Rose (1985 - 2010) - Retired partner

and founder and co-chair of firm’s Lodging

and Gaming Practice Group since its inception

in 1989 to 2010 (retired), a co-chair of the

Corporate Department for five years, member

of the Firm’s Executive Committee for six

years; represented owners, developers,

purchasers, sellers, and lenders in connection





ADR Program.

•Attended Advanced Commercial



(16 hrs), May 27 & June 3, 2009.

•Mediator certified by the Commercial

Division; attended the Mediation

Workshop presented by the Commercial

Division, June 1999 (24 hours).

•Attended mediation workshop sponsored

by Commercial Division, 1996.

•Arbitrator, NASD and NYC Civil Court

(Small Claims).

Member, Association of Arbitrators.





ADR Program.

•Member of AAA arbitration panel

•Member of the panel of neutral mediators

of the American Arbitration Association.



http://www.feericklaw.com



Above address effective December 1,

2020.

FELSENFELD, ARTHUR D., Esq.

JaspanSchlesinger LLP

300 Garden City Plaza

Garden City, NY 11530

Phone: 516-746-8000

Direct: 516-393-8236

Fax: 516-393-8282

N.Y.: 1976

S.D.N.Y.: 1977

E.D.N.Y.: 1977

2nd Cir.: 1995

N.D.FL: 2006

11th Cir.: 2007

Brooklyn College, B.S.,

1972

New York University

School of Law, J.D.,

1975

with purchase and sale of hotels and gaming

properties, mergers and acquisitions, long-term

management agreements, project development,

investments and financial transactions, and

restructurings and bankruptcies. Counseled

clients on mergers, acquisitions and financing

transactions and other matters of domestic and

international corporate clients engaged in a

broad spectrum of businesses, including

lodging and gaming, advertising, service,

manufacturing and mining industries.

Prior experience as an associate and then

partner in Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon &

Kaplan, 1969 to 1985.

Andrews Kurth (partner 1994-present) A

general commercial litigation practice with

particular emphasis on securities and

broker/dealer litigation, accountants’ liability,

the defense of class and derivative actions,

bankruptcy and real estate litigation, and

corporate ad partnership disputes.

•Member of ADR panel of mediators, NYS

Supreme Court, New York County.

•Member of ADR panel of mediators, NYS

Supreme Court, County of Queens.

•Commercial Division ADR Program

Supreme Court, Civil Branch, Queens

County

•Serving on the Queens County, Supreme

Court, ADR Program.

•Has been ranked in Chambers USA as

one of the leaders in the Leisure and

Hospitality Industry.

•Has also been ranked in New York Super

Lawyers as one of the leaders in

Business/Corporate law.

•Has been appointed a member of the

National Economics Honor Society.





ADR Program.

Member of Complaint Mediation Panel

and Panel for Mediation and Arbitration



E-Mail: [email protected] & Gould (partner 1984-1994; associate

1975-1983) - General commercial litigation

practice.

of Disputes among Lawyers of the New

York City Bar Association. Member of

the AAA and FIN arbitration panels and

AAA Mediation Panel. Member of CPR

Panel of Distinguished Neutrals.

FIORELLA, HON. ANTHONY J., JR.

525 East 89 Street, Apt. 5A

New York, NY 10128

or: 7 Bonnie Drive

Northport, NY 11768

Phone: 212-860-3169


FISHBERG, GERARD Esq.

Cullen and Dyman, LLP

100 Quentin Roosevelt Blvd.

Garden City, Y 11530-4850

Phone: 516-357-3703

MI: 1968

E. Dist. MI: 1968

Dist. Columbia Fed.

Dist. Ct.: 1968

N.Y.: 1972

S.D.N.Y.: 1978

E.D.N.Y.: 1978

U.S. Sup. Ct.: 1994

N.Y.: 1972

E.D.N.Y.: 1973

S.D.N.Y.: 1973

2ND Cir.: 1975

U.S. Sup. Ct. ; 1976

Univ. Detroit, Ph. B.,

1962

Univ. Detroit, School of

Law, J.D., 1966

N.Y.U. School of Law,

LLM, 1978

Hofstra University,

B.A., 1968

St. John’s Law School,

B.A. 1971 (Law

Review)

Retired Housing Court Judge, Civil Court of

the City of New York (Housing Part) 2013

Chief Law Assistant, Civil Court of the City of

New York (1981-1988)

Law Secretary to Hon. Norman Ryp (1978-

1981)

Senior Counsel and Underwriting Counsel,

Title Guarantee (1976-1978)

Law Secretary to Hon. Guy Gilbert Ribaudo

(1975-1976)

Associate Attorney, Tarnoff, Murphy and

Morrison (1973-1974)

Cullen and Dyman, LLP (1971-present) –

Associate and then member of the firm in a

practice that has concentrated largely in the

fields of labor management law, zoning,

environmental, and municipal law.





ADR Program.

Small Claims Arbitrator, Small Claims

Part (1978-1988)

Have participated in mediating cases since

2013





ADR Program.

•Member of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester,

Queens, and Kings Counties Supreme




E-Mail:

[email protected]

FREEDMAN, HON. HELEN E.

JAMS

620 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10018

Phone: 212-865-6647



N.Y.: 1967

S.D., N.Y.: 1970

E.D., N.Y.: 1970

United States

Supreme Court: 1979

New York University

School of Law, JD,

1967

Smith College, B.A.,

1963

Justice of the New York State Supreme Court

(1984-2014) -Associate Justice, Appellate

Division, First Department (2008-2014);

Commercial Division Justice (1999-2008);

Presiding Justice of the Litigation

Coordinating Panel (2002-2014); Associate

Justice, Appellate Term, First Department

(1995-1999)

Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme

Court, New York County (1984-1988)

Judge of the Civil Court of the City of New

York (1979-1988)

Court Commercial Division Mediation

Panels.

•Member of Roster of Mediators for Civil,

General Equity, and Probate cases for

New Jersey Statewide Mediation Program.





ADR Program.

Mediator with JAMS (2014-present)




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