Alternative Dispute Resolution Experience:
– Arbitrator since 1999, qualifications to serve on tribunals to hear matters in construction law and commercial disputes. Representative matters include contract disputes, terminations, employment, and corporate grievance matters.
– National financial brokerage firm dispute (covenants not to compete regarding the recruitment and accusation of raid of rival brokers and employees) (Baltimore, Maryland) (tribunal arbitrator)
– Employment law claims regarding tenure, promotion, and compensation (Washington, DC) (tribunal arbitrator)
– Corporate client grievance matters (cases heard in Washington, D.C.) (tribunal arbitrator)
– Expert witness in building collapse and construction failure suit (Baltimore, Maryland)
National Association of Securities Dealers (now FINRA), Washington, D.C.
– Received intensive arbitrator training and certified to hear NASD matters, then arbitrator on a variety panels for grievances and claims between firms and matters relating to services rendered by firms to clients. Cases involving presentation of evidence and witness testimony in D.C. and appointed to travel to other cities for cases, followed by panel rulings.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Training
– ACE 20 – Cyber Security: A Shared Responsibility, 2020
– AAA Arbitration
– Awards: Safeguarding, Deciding & Writing Awards ACE01, 2019; Arbitration
Fundamentals and Best Practices. 2019
– Accelerated Route to Fellowship, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators & CPR, 2019
– LCIA European Users’ Council Symposium at Tylney Hall, London Court of International Arbitration, 2019
– Arbitration Fundamentals and Best Practices for New AAA Arbitrators, AAA/ICDR, 2019
– National Association of Securities Dealers (now FINRA)
– NASD arbitrator training and certification
Shapiro Arbitration 