Mediator Resume

Full-Time Arbitrator and Mediator

Arbitrator, Mediator

Arbitrator and Mediator, 1978 - Present; Attorney, Daniel F. Brent Attorney at Law, 1976 - 1977.

Full time arbitrator and mediator of employment disputes, particularly labor management disputes, for more than 30 years. Arbitrated or mediated more than four thousand cases in the public and private sectors, including interest arbitration involving police officers and firefighters, as well rights and discipline arbitration involving municipal, county, state, and federal employees, health care workers., and retail workers Private sector arbitration includes many permanent panel appointments in an extensive list of industries. Relevant experience includes overseeing union representation elections, and interpreting a variety of collective bargaining agreements and other contracts.

Has more than three thousand cases arising primarily under collective bargaining agreements, successfully mediated hundreds of disputes at the request of the parties. Extensive mediation experience resolving police, fire fighter, and teacher disputes. Permanent mediator for Rutgers University faculty and AAUP. In addition, served as a dispute resolver in several innovative mediation hybrid procedures created by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, by United Parcel Service and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and by the State of New Jersey and the CWA. Successfully mediated cases involving the Nuclear Regulatory Agency and regulated entities and between the U.S. Department of Labor and employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Trained and certified as a Divorce Mediator; accredited as a court mediator by the State of New Jersey.

Mediated disputes involving termination of employment, wage and overtime claims, discipline, employee benefits, contract interpretation, job assignment, involuntary transfer, drug testing violations, teacher tenure disputes, and many other subject areas.

The mediation process requires careful attention to the underlying perspective and essential interests of each party, as well as patient education of each participant regarding what realistically defines success given their most important interests. Much of the mediation process is spent by the mediator listening to each party separately and identifying their core goals and actual needs. Evaluative mediation works best when the parties can accept a reasonable compromise, with which they are equally unhappy, based on their mutual belief that the mediator understands the basis for their position and the legitimacy of their concerns. Bringing each party to the threshold of agreement requires the mediator's understanding not only of their emotion driven concerns, but also of their best legal interests and viable alternatives as a prerequisite to achieving partial recognition by each party of the other side's concerns, which can only occur after each party has fully expressed its frustration, indignation, and disappointment about the other's conduct. Successful techniques, ranging from sympathetic validation to tough love feedback, must be tailored for addressing each participant's' attitude and personality as manifested during the mediation sessions. In appropriate cases, preparing the parties to address each other directly can remove an obstacle to settlement. Convincing them that retaining control of their own fate through compromise reflects wisdom, rather than capitulation, has also proved to be a useful pathway to settlement.

Adept at conducting video conference hearings on Zoom(preferred) and Microsoft Teams.

Hofstra University School of Law (JD); Oberlin College (BA).

Admitted to the Bar: New Jersey; U.S. Supreme Court.

National Academy of Arbitrators (former member, Board of Governors). New Jersey Bar Court for Arbitration of Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Have served as a panelist on AAA Educational Programs.

Atlanta, Georgia metro area and the New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia AAA Offices

Hourly Rate: Not provided Daily Rate: $2,900.00 Study Rate: $600.00/hr Cancellation: $2,900.00/Day Cancellation Period: 30 Days Comment: Overnight travel, if necessary. Cancellation: $2900. fee if notice of cancellation is received by the Mediator less than thirty full calendar days prior to the date or dates reserved.

English

United States of America

Princeton, New Jersey