Mediator Resume

Employment, commercial and consumer lawyer with over 30 years of experience. Litigation experience includes numerous first chair jury trials in each of Oklahoma's federal district courts and numerous state courts. Litigated cases include discrimination, sexual harassment, and securities fraud. Pertinent experience includes all aspects of federal and state labor and employment law, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower claims, FMLA, WARN Act, FLSA, ERISA, ADA, and non-compete issues. Has also represented companies in connection with Department of Labor (DOL) wage and hour disputes and investigations. Practice includes regular representation of clients in Federal and State administrative agencies.

Titus Hillis Reynolds Love PC - Shareholder/Director

Attorney, Arbitrator, Mediator

Shareholder/Director, Titus Hillis Reynolds Love PC, 1998-Present; Secretary, The Bama Companies Inc., 1999-Present; Shareholder/Associate, Boone Smith Davis Hurst & Dickman, 1988-1998.

Employment and commercial lawyer with over 30 years of experience. Litigation experience includes numerous first chair jury trials in each of Oklahoma's federal district courts and numerous state courts. Litigated cases include discrimination, sexual harassment, and securities fraud. Pertinent experience includes all aspects of federal and state labor and employment law, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower claims, FMLA, WARN Act, FLSA, ERISA, ADA, non-compete issues as well as non-solicitation issues. Has also represented companies in connection with Department of Labor (DOL) wage and hour disputes and investigations. Practice includes regular representation of clients in the EEOC and the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office of Civil Rights Enforcement. Has extensive experience drafting employment contracts and severance packages Successfully prosecuted a breach of Physicians Employment Agreement, failure to pay wages and benefits, conversion of signing bonus and breach of implied duty against a regional medical center. Obtained a jury defense verdict in a pregnancy discrimination action. Jury trial experience also includes two defense jury verdicts in securities fraud cases. Regularly conducts employee discrimination and harassment investigations for clients. Responsible for all aspects of corporate governance, regulatory compliance, contractual issues and labor and employment matters as an Officer and Director of a large international food company. Member of the Board of Directors for over 20 years. Involved with contract negotiations and dispute resolution for a myriad of commercial issues. Representation includes regular consultation with respect to employment matters, advice on management structure and transition planning. Tried over a hundred small claims actions for plaintiffs and defendants. Pertinent experience includes many aspects of consumer protection laws, including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Truth in Lending Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, Credit Repair Organizations Act, and the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. Extensive experience representing financial institutions and borrowers in commercial and consumer collections. Numerous trials involving consumer collections for lenders and borrowers. Regularly mediate consumer matters as an Adjunct Settlement Judge in the Northern District of Oklahoma.

Have acted as a Mediator since 1998. Mediated over two hundred cases. Appointed as an Adjunct Settlement Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Have mediated numerous labor and employment matters. Extensive experience mediating ERISA and insurance claims. Regularly mediate cases involving federal and state consumer claims. Represent clients in private and court sanctioned settlement conferences. Have represented clients in state and federal agency settlement conferences.

Mediated cases in all aspects of labor and employment law. Acted as mediator in several class and individual ERISA cases. Have mediated cases involving virtually all of the federal and state consumer laws. Also regularly mediate insurance disputes.

I am an evaluative mediator who believes I must first engage the emotional aspect of a dispute before addressing the legal issues. At the beginning of a mediation, I spend a lot of time listening to the parties and trying to understand their emotional state. I believe good settlements are processes and not events. I prefer to start with position statements from the parties to understand the dispute and the legal issues. I also prefer to have separate communications with the attorneys before the mediation to determine the current status of the dispute. I find that a brief joint session is helpful if the parties are not overly antagonistic. I spend most of the first portion of a mediation simply listening to the parties. It is vital that the parties believe the mediator is hearing their story and cares about resolving the dispute. Parties are much more likely to be reasonable and rational when the party believes he or she has been heard and understood. Once I believe the parties think they have been heard and understood, I begin the evaluative portion of the mediation. A good settlement depends upon the strengths and weaknesses of the claims and defenses. A neutral and objective opinion can be invaluable in resolving a dispute. I also use several persuasive techniques I have developed over my decades of mediation experience to try and get the parties to volitionally resolve their dispute.

Regularly use state of the art technology platforms in mediations. Regularly use Zoom and Teams for virtual mediations. Proficient in artificial intelligence platforms Co-Counsel and Precision.

University of Oklahoma (JD, with Honors-1987); University of Oklahoma (BBA, Accounting-1984).

Admitted to the Bar: Oklahoma (1987); U.S. District Court: Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Oklahoma; U.S. Court of Appeals: Tenth Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court. Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Oklahoma Bar Association; Tulsa County Bar Association; Member, American Board of Trial Advocates; Founding Board Member, Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice.

Lecturer on labor and employment and Fair Labor Standard Act matters for Continuing Legal Education programs.

Hourly Rate: Not provided Daily Rate: Not provided Study Rate: Not provided Cancellation: Not provided Cancellation Period: Not provided Comment: Compensation rates, established by the AAA, are set forth in the applicable Consumer Mediation Procedures.

English

United States of America

Tulsa, Oklahoma