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Professional Experience
Serve as an arbitrator, mediator and independent investigator
of employment disputes; general corporate and business
disputes. Represent employers and individuals in labor and
employment matters, including serving as trial counsel in
courts, administrative agencies and in alternate dispute
resolution proceedings involving race, age, and other forms of
discrimination and sexual harassment. Represent individuals in
personal injury matter and parties to corporate and business
disputes. Provide management training programs on labor and
employment issues, including sexual harassment, E.E.O. laws
and union avoidance. Tel Plus Communications/Siemens
Corporation, 1982-95. Corporate Counsel: Advised Siemens
United States operating companies on labor and employment law
issues. Provided general counsel to Tel Plus Communications, a
Siemens subsidiary. Personally represented Siemens companies
in administrative, court and alternate dispute resolution
proceedings. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, 1980-82,
Associate, Litigation Department. White & Case, 1977-1980,
Associate, Litigation Department.
Dispute Resolution Experience and Training
Court Appointed Mediator, U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York; Mediator, U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission; Administrative Law Judge, New York
State Office of Children & Family Services; Panel of
Arbitrators and Mediators and Member of the Employment
Committee, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. Arbitrator
and Mediator, Employment Dispute Resolution Panel, Nassau
County Bar Association; Arbitrator & Mediator on corporate
panels and in private practice. Member, Supreme Court, Kings
County Medical Malpractice Mediation Panel (Now disbanded).
Serve as faculty on various mediation training programs
including the E.E.O.C.; American Bar Association; N.Y.U. and
Touro Law Schools.
Selected Honors, Awards, Publications, and
Professional/Civic Associations
Chapter, "Advocacy in Mediation: A Defense Attorney s
Perspective" in published by BNA Books for the American Bar
Association Labor & Employment Committee in 2003; "ADR for
Employment Disputes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come." Corporate
Legal Times, September 1994; "Maintain a Union Free Status."
Personnel Journal, April 1990. Serve as faculty on management
and professional programs including; "Trial Practice
Conference" given by Touro Law Center and the National
Employment Lawyers Association; "The Use of Alternate Dispute
Resolution (ADR) To Avoid Workplace Lawsuits" sponsored by the
Society for Human Resource Management, the CPR Institute and
Executive Enterprises; "On The Edge: New Trends In Resolving
Sexual Harassment Sexual Discrimination Claims" and 'What s
New in Employment Law" sponsored by the Nassau Academy of Law
and the Nassau County Bar Association.; and "Industrial
Relations Workshop--Effective Strategies in Union and Union
Free Environments" sponsored by the Siemens Executive
Development and Education Center. Addressed numerous legal and
business groups on various topics, including speaking at the
annual meeting of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs Industry Liaison Group on Alternate Dispute
Resolution; a seminar for the Cornell University School of
Industrial and Labor Relations on Employee Participation
Programs and the National Employment Lawyers Association on
Alternate Dispute Resolution.
Education
B.A., Queens College, CUNY, 1972; J.D., Fordham University
School of Law, 1977. Honors: Law Review, Dean's List, American
Jurisprudence Award, Class President
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