FN-10788 MN-10788 LN-10788, Esq.
Arbitrator, Mediator
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Wayne State University Law School – Adjunct Professor
Arbitrator, Mediator
Adjunct Professor (Negotiation and ADR), Wayne State Law School, 2002 – Present; Arbitrator and Mediator, Self-employed, 1994 – Present; Adjunct Faculty, Wayne State University, 1979 – Present; Deputy Director, City of Detroit Human Rights Department, 1986 – 1994.
Primary areas of expertise include employee grievances, discipline and discharge, and contract interpretation. Also experienced with discrimination and sexual harassment. Teaches Negotiation and ADR courses at Wayne State University Law School.
Mediated several hundred cases since first trained as a mediator in 1986. Early on served as a volunteer mediator for the 46th District Court and the Community Dispute Resolution Center in Southwest Detroit. Mediated racial and ethnic disputes between 1986 and 1994 as Deputy Director of the City of Detroit Human Rights Department. Since then has mediated about 200 cases for the US EEOC and more for the US Postal Service, FINRA, Oakland and Macomb Circuit Courts, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other agencies. Most of mediation cases in recent years have come from the EEOC. Typically, they involve a discharged employee who claims that his or her discharge was discriminatory. Typically, either the employer, the employee or both is not interested in reinstatement, and the settlement involves some amount of money in exchange for a global release. Successfully mediated four cases for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Almost all cases are labor or employment related. Mediated cases involving securities, probate, contract interpretation, discharge, discipline, leaves of absence, management rights and the whole range of labor grievances. Has also mediated the settlement of interest arbitration cases while acting as a Fact Finder or a 312 Arbitrator. Also serves as a mediator in workplace disputes involving the US Postal Service and the Financial Industry Regulatory Agency.
I've been trained in facilitative and transformative mediation, and I have considerable experience as an evaluative mediator through my work settling cases as a labor arbitrator. My view is that a mediator needs to be able to pull from all of those areas and more as the situation requires. A philosophy of mediation that restricts that flexibility is an unnecessary restraint.
Wayne State University (JD-1980; BA-1973); University of Hawaii (MA, Philosophy-1977).
Admitted to the Bar: Michigan, 1981.
National Academy of Arbitrators (Michigan Chapter, Past Chair); Labor and Employment Relations Association (Michigan Chapter); College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; State Bar of Michigan.
PUBLICATIONS: Author, THE SCIENCE OF SETTLEMENT: IDEAS FOR NEGOTIATORS, ALI-ABA, 2008, www.ali-aba.org/bk43; Co-author, "The Arbitration Dialogues," MICHIGAN BAR JOURNAL, January 2009; "The Psychology of Mediation," NAELA JOURNAL, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, 2008; "The Psychology of Settlement," THE PRACTICAL LITIGATOR, American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), July 2006; contributor, "Dispute Resolution in the Workplace: Proceedings of the National Academy of Arbitrators," NAA Website http://naarb.org; "For What It's Worth," a regular column in LAWNOTES, the Michigan Bar Labor and Employment Section quarterly newsletter (available online at www.michbar.org/labor/lawnotes.cfm).
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Frequent speaker at ICLE and Michigan Bar events. "The Science of Settlement," ABA ADR Section annual meeting, Seattle, 2008; "The Science of Settlement," Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) annual meeting, Vancouver, 2008; "What Do You Mean You Don't Like My Offer?," Federal Government ADR Working Group, Washington DC, 2008; "The Science of Settlement," Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), annual meeting, Austin, 2008; "The Science of Settlement," Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) bi-annual conference, Washington, DC, 2008.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: Frequent speaker at ICLE and Michigan Bar events. "The Science of Settlement," ABA ADR Section annual meeting, Seattle, 2008; "The Science of Settlement," Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) annual meeting, Vancouver, 2008; "What Do You Mean You Don't Like My Offer?," Federal Government ADR Working Group, Washington DC, 2008; "The Science of Settlement," Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), annual meeting, Austin, 2008; "The Science of Settlement," Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) bi-annual conference, Washington, DC, 2008.
$325 Per Hour
English
United States of America
Bloomfield Hills, MI
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