2009 CDRC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 Jennifer BullockPhone: 650-513-0330 x304 E-mail: jbullock@pcrcweb.org JENNIFER BULLOCK is the Executive Director of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center in San Mateo, CA where she has been on staff for over 8 years. Jennifer's background is in community mediation including multi-party, complex situations. She has worked with city governments to design and facilitate public meetings, with businesses to provide training in communication skills for staff, and with groups of neighbors, co-workers, business professionals, community members and civic leaders to help them work through their disputes. Jennifer has also provided numerous hours of training to PCRC's volunteer mediators and facilitators. Jennifer earned a BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College in 1994 and an MA in Conflict Resolution from the McGregor School of Antioch University in 2001. Jennifer has taught an undergraduate course in conflict management at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. She is a founding member of the coordinating committee 0f the California Coalition for Community Mediation. |
 Richard ChernickPhone: 213-253-9790 E-mail: rchernick@msn.com RICHARD CHERNICK is Vice President and Managing Director of the JAMS Arbitration Practice. He arbitrates and mediates large and complex arbitrations, both domestic and international. Richard is the author or co-author of leading texts on ADR, Employment ADR and International Arbitration and Mediation; he is a frequent trainer and lecturer on arbitration and mediation topics. He is Immediate Past Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association and Founding President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. Richard served as the ABA’s Advisor to the drafting committee for the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act. He is a Co-Chair of the Planning Committee for the Arbitration Training Institute of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section. |
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STEVEN P. DINKIN has directed the National Conflict Resolution Center since 2003. At NCRC he has spearheaded the effort to establish national standards for mediation training; secured a national contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide trainers and mediators for TSA’s Model Workplace Program; and laid the groundwork for a cross-border initiative to bring mediation training and services to Baja, California. Before arriving at NCRC, Steve was Program Director at the Center for Dispute Settlement (CDS) where he designed and established the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Washington, D.C. He also mediated workplace and employment cases under contract with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Reserve System and the Office of Compliance (an independent office in the legislative branch of the Federal Government, engaged in resolving workplace disputes within the House of Representatives, the Senate and the other congressional offices). In addition to his work at CDS, Steve was an Adjunct Law Professor at George Washington University where he taught a mediation clinic; President of the D.C. Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution; and Chair of the D.C. Bar Litigation Section, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Steve earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School. Steve chairs the Education Committee/Southern California. |
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PAUL DUBOW is an arbitrator and mediator in San Francisco specializing in securities, employment, insurance and commercial law matters. He has mediated over 200 cases and has served as an arbitrator in over 100 matters. He is a former co-chair of both the Arbitration Committee of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section and the Contra Costa County Bar Association ADR Committee. He is also a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a contributor to that organization’s Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration. He is past president of the Mediation Society and was a member of the Judicial Council working group that promulgated the rules for mediators in court annexed mediations. He is also the author of the arbitration section of the State Bar Business Law Section’s annual update of California law and a member of the editorial boards of California Litigation Magazine and the Securities Arbitration Commentator.
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FREDERICK J. GLASSMAN is a founding partner of Mayer & Glassman Law Corporation in Los Angeles ; a veteran of 35 years of litigation, he now focuses his practice on resolution-oriented approaches to family law disputes. He is the President of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association. Fred has authored local and national articles and teaches courses for the UCLA Extension Department of Legal Programs on Collaborative Practice and Mediation. He continues to present his protocol for enrolling the client to collaborative practice groups throughout California . Fred has appeared on the Time Warner Public Television Shows “Changing the Face of Divorce – New Century, New Beginnings”; “What is Collaborative Law?”; and “Collaborative Practice: the Sensible, Safe and Sensitive Way to Divorce”. He is a frequent speaker and panel member for the American Bar Association Family Law and Dispute Resolution Sections annual conferences as well as the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals annual forums. His review of Family Code 2013 recognizing collaborative law in California appears as the leading article for the September, 2007 issue of LexisNexis-Matthew Bender California Law Monthly. Fred wrote a feature article on collaborative practice entitled “Advocacy Redefined” for the January 2008 issue of LawDragon, a national publication. He is the recipient of the 2008 State of California Collaborative Practice Eureka Award . Fred has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America ® and was named in Southern California ’s Best Lawyers 2009 edition for family collaborative law and mediation. He is listed in Martindale Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers with their highest AV-rating in legal ability and ethical standards. Fred’s complete curriculum vitae is available on his website: www.mglawcorp.com. |
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JOHN HORN is currently the Managing Director of the Arbitration Mediation and Conciliation Center (AMCC). AMCC is a full service dispute resolution firm providing for the dispute resolution needs of both public and private sector clients across the country. John received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School , his Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Southern California and his undergraduate degree from the University of California — Berkeley . He serves on multiple committees of the Dispute Resolution Section of the ABA , is a board member on the California Dispute Resolution Council Board of Directors, is a member of the Loyola Law School Alumni Board, and participates in activities of numerous bar and ADR related organizations. As an adjunct Professor of Law at the Loyola Law School for the past six years, he has a long history of activity and involvement in the ADR industry as an educator, administrator and neutral. He is also a frequent commentator and lecturer on various ADR aspects and has been quoted and/or profiled in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily Journal. |
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MICHELLE KATZ is certified as a specialist in family law by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization and devotes her practice exclusively to mediation, mediation-related services, and collaborative law in family law cases. Her office is in Los Angeles, California. She is the former chair of the State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hills Bar Foundation and the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hill Bar Association. Michelle also served as a member of the ADR Consulting Group to the Board of Legal Specialization of the California State Bar. Currently, she is chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Family Committee and is on the planning committee for that section’s annual conference in April, 2007 in Washington D.C. Listed in Martindale Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, she currently carries their AV rating. She is one of the founders of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association. Michelle has been named as a 2006 Southern California Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Los Angeles Magazine. She has trained with Gary Friedman, Esq. at the Center for Mediation in Law in Mill Valley, California, and with Roger Fisher and Robert Mnookin at Harvard, and has received training from Chip Rose and Susan Gamache/Nancy Cameron in Collaborative Law (through the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association). She is a frequent speaker on the use of alternative dispute resolution processes in family law. She can be reached at KatzMedi8s@aol.com. |
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DR. URS MARTIN LAEUCHLI is a certified mediator, arbitrator (FCIArb), international attorney, early neutral evaluator, settlement mentor, and sworn pro tem judge. He has taught negotiations, law, and economics in both the |
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BROHNE LAWHORNE, J.D., is a graduate of the University of California and Santa Clara University School of Law. He is the Director of Dispute Resolution Programs for the County of Santa Clara and the Ombudsman for the County Department of Family and Children’s Services and Department of Environmental Health. Brohne has been a full time practitioner of dispute resolution since 1999 and has mediated or facilitated more than 1721 disputes. Brohne teaches dispute resolution, communication, negotiation, public speaking, and writing for persuasion at several Bay Area colleges and universities including Stanford University, the University of California, the State University system, and the Monterey Institute for International Studies.
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CANDACE L. MATSON is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP. A member of the firm's Real Estate, Environmental and Construction Practice Group, she has focused her practice on construction law for over 18 years. Candace represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, lenders and others in a wide range of private and public contexts, from the preconstruction phase through project close-out, including serving as an advocate in the litigation, arbitration and/or mediation of disputes. She is a former Chair of the Construction Subsection of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a former Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Associated General Contractors of California ("AGCC"), has served on the Los Angeles District Board of the AGCC, a former Director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction, and serves on the Board of Women Construction Owners and Executives (Los Angeles). Candace has published numerous articles on topics relevant to construction law and is a frequent speaker on such subjects. Candace also serves as a construction arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and the Arbitration Mediation Conciliation Center, and as a mediator with FORUM Dispute Management (an affiliate of National Arbitration Forum). Candace can be reached at cmatson@sheppardmullin.com.
MILICA NOVAKOVIC is currently the San Diego Superior Court’s Mediation Program Coordinator and Staff Member of the court’s ADR Committee. As Mediation Program Coordinator, Ms. Novakovic is working to improve and expand the court’s Civil Mediation Program and to develop mediation programs relative to other case types. After graduating from Rutgers School of Law in 1993, Ms. Novakovic practiced in Ms. Novakovic began her career with the Superior Court as a Staff Attorney in 2001 and had been assigned to various independent calendar, probate, and civil departments in the Central Division, and also participated in specific court projects, including Temporary Judge Administration and a review of the Court’s administrative and operational policies and procedures. Since 2004, Ms. Novakovic has also been a volunteer mediator in victim-offender and family mediations through the Restorative Justice Mediation Program, which subsequently partnered with the Pro Bono Mediation Program of the Legal Aid Society of San Diego.
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GERALD F. PHILLIPS is an attorney full time mediator and arbitrator with an office in Century City Los Angeles. He specializes in resolving complex litigation and entertainment controversies. He was recently listed as one of the 50 Top Neutrals in California. Gerry is a member of the Board of Director of CDRC and is on its 10th Anniversary Planning Committee. He is a founding member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. He is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine School of Law where he teaches ADR in the Entertainment Industry. He was a vice present of United Artists Corporation. Gerry is past chair of the State Bar Committee on ADR and the Beverly Hills Bar Association ADR Section. He was founder of the State Bar Business Law ADR Section. He is on the AAA, AFMA and CPR panels of arbitrators. He received the DRS 2004 Griffen Bell Volunteer Service Award.
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MICHAEL R. POWELL is Vice President of the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) Los Angeles Regional Office. He is primarily responsible for the promotion of the AAA’s domestic and international arbitration and mediation services to the legal and business communities. In addition, he is responsible for the recruitment and training of the Los Angeles Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators. He has worked extensively with the AAA General Counsel’s office, serving as a liaison for California legislative issues. He is a frequent speaker and trainer, and has written several published articles in the Alternative Dispute Resolution field. Michael serves on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., and the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA).
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RONALD ROSENFELD is a partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Leeds, Wender and Rosenfeld LLP. His practice includes divorce mediation, collaborative divorce, divorce litigation, living-together agreements, prenuptial agreements, and postnuptial agreements. Ron is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” and “Martindale-Hubbell Bar register of Preeminent Lawyers”, AV-rated. Ron chairs the Collaborative Law Legislation Committee.  Mark Roy, 2009 SecretaryPhone: 650-669-9432 E-mail: markroy62@gmail.com MARK ROY is a mediator, mediation program developer, mediation case administrator, and attorney. He currently works with Project Sentinel, a Bay Area fair housing and dispute resolution agency. Mark previously served as director of mediation services at the Better Business Bureau of the San Joaquin Valley , where he managed court-related mediation programs in Fresno , Kern, and Stanislaus counties. He also served as Stanislaus County 's small claims advisor. Mark began his ADR career in 1990 as the founding director of a victim-offender mediation program in Lafayette , Indiana , and later served as assistant director of a community mediation program in Lancaster , Pennsylvania . After moving to California in 1994, Mark worked as associate director of Fresno Pacific University 's Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies before joining the BBB in 2001. He is actively involved in the California Coalition for Community Mediation and previously served as president of the Central California Dispute Resolution Association and treasurer of the Central California Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution. Mark earned a B.A from Purdue University and a J.D. from San Joaquin College of Law. |
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Karen Smith, 2009 President-Elect
KAREN SMITH is the CEO of the Arbitration Mediation & Conciliation Center (AMCC), a full service dispute resolution firm headquartered in California . Karen is a twenty year veteran of the ADR industry, and enjoys providing education opportunities for lawyers, claims professionals, consumers, practitioners and students on the practical and legal considerations inherent in dispute resolution. As a facilitator, she has gained unique insight into the process from the perspectives of the parties, counsel and ADR professionals.
Mr. Stevenson’s involvement in mediation and his expertise in the area of confidentiality and mediator ethics developed as a result of his encounter with a retired judge mediator who violated every basic rule of a mediator in the case of Foxgate Homeowners’ Assoc. v. Bramalea California, Inc., (2001) 26 Cal.4th 1. Since the Foxgate case, Mr. Stevenson has served as an Amicus Curiae in Rojas v. Superior Court, (2004) 33 Cal.4th 407, Wimsatt v. Superior Court (2007) 152 Cal. App.4th 137 and most recently the Simmons v. Ghaderi (2008) 44 Cal. 4th 570.
Mr. Stevenson has lectured on the subject matter of mediation and the use of mediation in the litigation world and has lectured on a state, as well as national and international level. Mr. Stevenson is a Fellow with the Center for International Legal Studies and has presented lectures in Salzburg, Austria and Rome, Italy.
Mr. Stevenson also is a member of the Board of Directors for both the Southern California Mediation Association, locally and on a statewide basis for the California Dispute Resolution Counsel.
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Michelle Katz
Urs Laeuchli
Milica Novakovic
Ron Rosenfeld
Ivan K. Stevenson|
Eric van Ginkel, LL.M. is an experienced arbitrator and mediator in California and internationally. He is Assistant Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and an Adjunct Professor of Law, at Pepperdine University Law School . From 1999 until 2006, he was Counsel to the Los Angeles office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. He is a former Chair of the ADR Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Bar Association (until September 2008) and former Senior Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IBA (until December 2007). He serves as arbitrator and/or mediator for the ICC, ICDR, AAA, WIPO, ACICA, NAF and IMAC. In addition to intellectual property matters, he also has extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, hi-tech joint ventures, and licensing and distribution agreements. Mr. van Ginkel is a frequent speaker and trainer on ADR-related subjects. He has published articles, inter alia, in Mealey’s Arbitration Journal, The Journal of International Arbitration, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Journal, the IBA Newsletters for both the Arbitration and Mediation Committees, and The Negotiation Journal. He holds Juris Doctor degrees (or equivalent) from the Law Faculty of Leiden University in the |
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CATHERINE WARD, J.D. is the Lead Mediator and ADR Program Coordinator for the In addition to her work as a mediator, Catherine has spent over 30 years committed to improving access to justice for all people. Specifically, she has worked as a developer and supervisor of clinical legal programs targeted to help self-represented litigants: she started the Workers’ Rights Clinic for The Employment Law Center in |
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GARY A. WEINER is the Mediation Program Administrator at the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District. He was formerly a mediator and arbitrator with Resolution Remedies in |
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MAURY ZILBER is a full time neutral and has over 25 years of experience as an arbitrator and mediator. He has arbitrated over 150 domestic and international commercial and consumer disputes over a wide range of business, intellectual property and public utility issues. In addition, he has mediated disputes relating to software development, rights to copyrighted designs, zoning violations and sales representation agreements. He serves as a member of a number of panels of the American Arbitration Association, FedArb, Inc. and the Mid-Continent American Power Pool, and serves on the panel of mediators for the California Court of Appeals, First Appellate District Mediation Program. He is a member of the Mediation Society of San Francisco, a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, former Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University Law School. Maury practiced business, public utility and intellectual property law with the Boston office of Nixon Peabody LLP for 35 years. He is presently President of the California Dispute Resolution Council. More information may be found at http://www.adrresolutions.com. Maury is also a Managing Director of Maurice L. Zilber & Associates LLC, a management consultancy for professional firms. |
Eric van Ginkel 
Catherine Ward 
Maurice L. Zilber, 2009 President