Across all matters and non-judicial fora, each member of our team brings an essential skill to the arbitral process: the ability to determine an impartial and dispassionate resolution to a complex problem. Due to the strength of our bench, we are uniquely qualified to employ numerous out-of-court strategies for resolving our clients' conflicts, including traditional mediation, arbitration, party-arbitration, and neutral evaluations of disputes.
Our distinguished team of ADR professionals includes a former New York State Associate Justice, Appellate Division, First Department, who presided over hundreds of non-jury trials and decided thousands of dispositive motions in his career on the bench, and now applies the same impartiality to his clients' complex commercial, insurance, and real estate controversies and high-end matrimonial disputes.
Our team also includes the co-chair of our Intellectual Property Practice, a professional advocate and mediator for over 22 years, who focuses his ADR practice on resolving intellectual property, commercial/fraud claims, and employment disputes. In addition, the chair of our Business Solutions, Restructuring & Governance Practice acts as a private mediator for parties in complex securitization litigation involving residential mortgage-backed securities, as well as a court appointed mediator for commercial, contractual, and mortgage securitization disputes in bankruptcy cases.
Another of our litigators acts as a mediator and arbitrator in business disputes, and has obtained millions of dollars in arbitration awards for her clients in cases involving real estate, valuation, partnership/shareholder, post-acquisition, insurance, securities, employment, and construction.
Our accomplished team of ADR lawyers serve on panels of court-appointed mediators and neutrals in federal and state courts and are members of national mediation and arbitration organizations including:
- Panel of Neutrals of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program of the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Panel of Certified Mediators
- Mediation Panel of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
- Mediation Panel for Indemnification Claims of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Affiliated Debtors Against Mortgage Loan Sellers
- Mediation Panel of the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
- Mediation Register of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Panel of Trademark Mediators of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
