Mediator Resume

Northwestern University, School of Professional Studies - Dean Northwestern University, School of Law - Senior Lecturer

Educator; Attorney, Arbitrator, Mediator

Dean (School of Professional Studies)/Senior Lecturer (School of Law, Northwestern University), 2002 - Present; Executive Director, Center for Dispute Resolution; Executive Director (Center for Labor-Management, School for New Learning) DePaul University, 1990 - 2002; Attorney, Hogan Marren Ltd., 1993 - 1998; Legal Affairs Writer, Chicago Sun-Times, 1984 - 1990.

Arbitrator and mediator with extensive employment experience, including hearing claims involving: executive separation agreements, non-compete, termination and related disciplinary issues; protected-class including race, gender and sex discrimination; Fair Labor Standards Act and related wage/hour claims including minimum wage; Family and Medical Leave Act, libel/slander, and employee-related benefit issues including health care and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Additionally, more than 15 years mediating personal injury clergy abuse claims, totaling more than $50 million in settlements over that time. Former law firm attorney with practice in employment and labor law.

Extensive employment mediation experience, including hearing claims involving: executive separation agreements, non-compete, termination and related disciplinary issues; protected-class including race, gender and sex discrimination; Fair Labor Standards Act and related wage/hour claims including minimum wage; Family and Medical Leave Act, libel/slander, and employee-related benefit issues including health care and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Additionally, more than 15 years mediating personal injury clergy abuse claims, totaling more than $50 million in settlements over that time. Former law firm attorney with practice in employment and labor law.

Mediated: Most categories of discrimination, e.g. Title VII, Americans with Disability Act; executive separation agreements, non-compete, termination and related disciplinary issues; Fair Labor Standards Act and related wage/hour claims including minimum wage; Family and Medical Leave Act, libel/slander, and employee-related benefit issues including health care and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and personal injury actions, time.

Mediation is facilitated negotiations. My role as a mediator is not to be a decision maker but to create an environment for parties to negotiate. It is my job to identify why previous negotiations have failed (i.e. poor communications, high emotions, a good-faith disagreement as to legal outcomes) and to assist the parties in working through their impasse and to identify what interests need to be met to reach a settlement. I would describe my style as a facilitative approach that utilizes tough reality testing as parties consider their legal claims and alternatives to settlement. I have also offered evaluative opinions, when requested by the parties, in some labor grievance mediations and other dispute resolution processes.

DePaul University, College of Law (JD - 1993); Yale University, School of Law (MSL - 1984); Drew University (MA - 1983); Fordham University (BA - 1978).

Admitted to the Bar: Illinois (1983); Illinois Supreme Court; U.S. District Court: Northern District of Illinois; U.S. Court of Appeals: Seventh and Federal Circuits.

National Academy of Arbitrators since 2012 (Past Chair, Employment Arbitration Committee); Chicago Bar Association (ADR Section, Past Chair, Past Vice Chair, Past Legislative Liaison); Association for Conflict Resolution (Chicago Chapter, Past President, Past Board of Directors); American Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Section); University Professional & Continuing Education Association (Past President, 2014-15 Innovation Fellow).

"Scope of Labor Arbitration," chapter 3, HOW ARBITRATION WORKS, 6th ed., BNA, Inc.; chapter author, ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION, 1st ed., Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education; past columnist, "Dispute Resolution," CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN. Frequent speaker on dispute resolution topics for businesses, non-profits, and governmental agencies.

Hourly Rate: $450.00 Daily Rate: Not provided Study Rate: $450.00/hr Cancellation: $1,800.00/Day Cancellation Period: 10 Days Comment: Minimum hearing fee: 6 hours. Cancellation fee: half-day rate (4 hours) applies if mediation postponed or cancelled with notice of less than 10 days from mediation date, and another matter cannot be set in its place. There is no charge for travel time on the day of mediation. Travel required prior to or following the day(s) of the mediation is billed at $200 per hr, not to exceed the half-day rate. Actual and reasonable expenditures for transportation, meals, lodging and tolls are billed at cost. Travel in the mediator's own vehicle is billed at the applicable IRS rate. No charge for normal office expenses. Charges actual expenses for extraordinary office expenses, such as overnight mail, at the parties' request.

English

United States of America

Chicago, Illinois