TRIBUTE TO MELVIN RUBIN
Founding Fellow, Past-President,
and Distinguished Fellow
Coral Gables, FL
Ethics In ADR – A Sampling of Issues
JOHN M. BARKETT, ESQ.
Fellow, Miami, FL
Mr. Barkett is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (B.A. Government, 1972, summa cum laude) and the Yale Law School (J.D. 1975) and served as a law clerk to the Honorable David W. Dyer on the old Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Barkett is a Fellow of both the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and the College of Commercial Arbitrators and is a Member of the London Court of International Arbitration and the International Council on Commercial Arbitration. Mr. Barkett also teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law. In October 2017, Mr. Barkett will complete a six year term on the Advisory Committee for Civil Rules of the Federal Judicial Conference. Beginning in August 2016, he will serve a three-year term as a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, having previously served for one-year as a member of this Committee.
All Opinions Matter – Breaking Down Assumptions About the Community Relations Service
DANIELLE SCOTT, Student
University of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, WI
Danielle Scott is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she was a member of the Wisconsin Law Review and Treasurer of the Black Law Students Association. During her 2L year, Ms. Scott mediated a variety of cases in the Dane County and Walworth County Small Claims Courts including landlord-tenant, contract, and property damage cases as part of Wisconsin Law’s Mediation Clinic. In the fall, Ms. Scott will begin work as an Associate in the Madison office of the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP, where she will practice patent litigation. She earned her B.A. in American Studies from Cornell University.
Repaving the Legal System – Stepping Away From the Courts and Moving Towards Mediation To Solve Land Use Disputes
CORY BAKER, Student
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA
Cory Baker is a 2016 graduate from Pepperdine University School of Law. He is interested in pursuing a career in Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Law, but ultimately an opportunity to develop and exercise skills related to real estate transactions, from a both legal and entrepreneurial perspectives. He has acquired extensive practice in Real Estate and Securities Law as associate in-house counsel for Realty Mogul, a real estate investment platform. Currently, Cory served as a volunteer Mediator through the Center for Conflict Resolution, and strives to educate and provide alternative dispute resolution services to the Los Angeles County Small Claims Courts. In addition, Cory was the Editor-in- Chief of the Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship Camp; the Law; one of Pepperdine’s specialty Journals.
Planning, Organizing, Formatting and Executing the Mediation of a Complex, Multi-Party, Multi-Issue Lawsuit
LAWRENCE M. WATSON, JR., ESQ.
Fellow Emeritus
Upchurch Watson White & Max P.A.
Maitland, FL
Lawrence M. “Larry” Watson is a founding partner of the mediation firm of Upchurch, Watson, White & Max which now features a panel of over thirty mediators operating from offices in Florida and Alabama. Mr. Watson’s practice in Orlando, Florida focuses on complex, multi-party commercial disputes including construction claims, insurance and reinsurance disputes, business dissolutions, intellectual property and environmental issues. A former Chairman of the Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section, and longstanding member of the ABA Section Of Litigation leadership, Mr. Watson was appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to its Standing Committee on Mediation and Arbitration Rules (later to become the Court’s Standing Committee on ADR Rules and Policy) where he served as chair and a member for twenty five years. In 2000, the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators granted him their Award of Merit for Outstanding Contribution to Mediation, in 2005 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, and in 2014 he was awarded The Sharon Press Excellence in ADR Award by the Supreme Court of Florida. Mr. Watson is an Emeritus Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, and currently serves as Editor of ACCTM’s American Journal of Mediation.
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