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Rena Scott

Rena, Co-Leader of the Geneva Office, brings strong knowledge and experience in international arbitration representing companies in highly complex and high-value disputes involving a wide variety of cross-border matters and on major projects (commercial, retail, residential, high rise, low rise, infrastructure, and power (conventional and clean generation)). Rena acts as…
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Frank Burke

Mr. Burke has 42 years of experience as a business trial lawyer in major national law firms, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a diverse range of business disputes in federal and state courts in 26 states, China and Canada. As a full-time neutral, he has had significant experience mediating…
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Homer C. La Rue

Professor La Rue is an experienced and highly-sought arbitrator and mediator of workplace and other disputes. He has over thirty-five years of experience in a variety of industries and settings including, but not limited to, airlines, railroads, retail, higher education, telecommunications, public sector state and local government and federal sector.…
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Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour

Adedoyin Oyinkan Rhodes-Vivour, SAN is the founding partner of Doyin Rhodes-Vivour & Co, a firm of solicitors, advocates and arbitrators. The firm specializes in providing corporate commercial, litigation and arbitration/ADR services. Adedoyin is a chartered arbitrator and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is active in international arbitration.…
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Jeanne Charles

Jeanne Charles brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) area. Each case is very different and must be handled with the level of care, expertise and experience that is relevant to its specific facts. Committed to the practice area of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Jeanne…
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Rebekah Ratliff

Rebekah Ratliff, CCLS is a mediator, arbitrator and neutral analyst with JAMS. She is a credentialed former commercial insurance claims professional with more than 25 years of experience in evaluating, negotiating and settling complex casualty claims loss matters, nationwide and internationally with settlements totaling in the millions. Having evaluated thousands of…
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Donald Lewis

Don Lewis is a founding shareholder of Nilan Johnson Lewis PA in Minneapolis. His practice focuses on internal corporate investigations, white collar civil fraud, and complex employment and healthcare litigation. Don served as Dean of the Hamline University School of Law from July 2008 through December 2013. Don’s trial career…
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Nania Owusu-Ankomah

Nania is a Partner at Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah in Ghana. She regularly advises and represents clients in a range of high value litigation and arbitration disputes. She is listed on CPR’s Panels of Distinguished Neutrals, the LCIA Database of Arbitrators and the Ghana ADR Hub List of Arbitrators. She…
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Tuneen Chisolm

An ADR neutral since 2009, principal Tuneen Chisolm is a former litigator with over twenty years of experience focused on intellectual property, entertainment, and unfair competition litigation and related counseling. She has represented talent and various corporate entities in a variety of matters relating to the music, film, television, literary…
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Funke Adekoya

Funke Adekoya SAN is a founding Partner at Nigerian law firm ǼLEX, one of the largest full service commercial law firms in Nigeria where she heads the Dispute Resolution practice group. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, also a Chartered Arbitrator, a past Chairman of its…
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Bobby Harges

Bobby Harges has been a full-time law professor since 1990. He is the Adams and Reese Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. He teaches courses in evidence, mediation and arbitration, arbitration advocacy, sports law, torts, criminal law and procedure, DWI law, and appellate advocacy.…
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Brent Clinkscale

Brent Clinkscale is an Independent Arbitrator, Mediator and Litigation/ADR Consultant.   A veteran advocate with experience in both trials and arbitrations,  Brent has over 25 years as counsel and lead counsel in complex litigation trying numerous cases in both federal and state courts in the United States. Brent’s concentration is…
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Adoley Azu

Adoley Azu is currently a Principal UX Research Program Manager for Inclusive  Research at Microsoft. Prior roles include Director for Alternative Dispute Resolution & Compliance at the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, and Justice of the High Court Judge for the Republic of Ghana. Adoley  has conducted hundreds of mediations and…
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Ijeoma Ononogbu

Ijeoma Ononogbu is an International Arbitrator and  Solicitor of England and Wales, with expertise in International Dispute Resolution, International Trade, and International Commercial Law. An international dispute resolution lawyer trained in dual common law jurisdictions, Nigeria and England & Wales. She has an LLM in Comparative and International Dispute Resolution…
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Charles E. Harris II

Over 18 years of experience in litigation and arbitration. Practice focuses on a range of matters, including class actions, contract and real estate-related disputes, technology and software integration-related disputes, administrative actions, and privacy and cybersecurity. For instance, has successfully defended individual and class action suits arising under the TCPA, AIPA,…
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Tina Patterson

Tina E. Patterson, MDR , MCIArb is the Principal of Jade Solutions, a woman-owned, MBE/DBE/SBE, SWaM, WOSB and WBE certified small business that provides management consulting services in the areas of alternative dispute resolution and community engagement, proposal management and grants management support, and project management and training. Tina has…
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Aaron Ogletree

Aaron Peron Ogletree is an arbitrator and mediator with leading alternative dispute resolution panels. He has over 10 years of complex litigation and arbitration experience. He is one of the Centre’s co-founders. He served as the chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Natural Resources & Energy Law Section and the…
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Edward Luke II

Edward W. F. Luke II B.A. LLB Honours, Barrister-at- Law, England & Wales, FAIADR, FAIAC, FCIArb, FSIArb, FAArb, FBIArb, Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, CIArb UK Edward W. F. Luke II is the Managing Partner of the firm Luke and Associates and one of the leading lawyers in Botswana with…
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Victoria Kigen

Victoria Kigen is a licensed Kenyan Attorney with experience practicing in both Kenya and the United States. She received her Master’s Degree in International Arbitration from University of Miami School of Law. Areas of practice includes International Arbitration ( Investment and Commercial), Corporate Law, corporate governance, ADR processes such as,…
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Vivien Zimba

Vivien Zimba is a lecturer in law and former Legal Officer of Zambia State Insurance Corporation (ZSIC Limited). She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK and Zambia, and a member of the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution. Vivien has sat as sole arbitrator,…
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Nneka Emilia Onyema

Emilia Onyema, is a Professor of International Commercial Law at SOAS University of London. She holds a PhD in international commercial arbitration from Queen Mary University of London. She is qualified to practice law in Nigeria and as a Solicitor in England & Wales; and she is a Fellow of…
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Shan Greer

Shan Greer is an international arbitrator, mediator and advocate associated with the British law firm Spencer West LLP. She has over twenty years of experience advising clients on a wide variety of commercial transactions and disputes with specific expertise in construction law. Known for a practical and commercially sensitive approach,…
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Verlyn Francis, J.D., LL.M. (ADR)

VERLYN FRANCIS is a an experienced international arbitrator and mediator in Commercial, Civil, Consumer, Estates, Family, and Disability disputes. She is the Principal ADR Consultant at Isiko Dispute Resolution Consultants Inc. Ms. Francis has used her technological expertise to conduct hearings by videoconference since 2015. In addition to her independent…
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Katherine Simpson

Dr. Simpson is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA).  Dr. Simpson has over twelve (12) years of experience in US domestic and international arbitration, both as arbitrator and as “tribunal secretary” – a legal professional that is…
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Wayne Holcomb

Over 20 years in Alternative Dispute Resolution.  Virginia Attorney since 2008.  Have an MBA.  Started Holcomb Law in 2010; practiced law and mediation from the start.  Opened the Holcomb Mediation Centers in 2020 as a separate entity.   Adjunct Professor teaching ADR at Regent University School of Law since 2017. 20-year…
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Gary L. Benton

Gary Benton is an internationally recognized Arbitrator and Mediator with expertise in international business, private investment, technology, IP and emerging growth matters. His practice is focused on technology development, distribution, licensing, IP infringement and cybersecurity disputes. He has handled hundreds of cases around the world and serves on the panels…
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Amy Schmitz

Amy J. Schmitz is an arbitrator, mediator, legal and technology expert and professor of law and dispute resolution. She was a co-founder of Arbitrate.com with Colin Rule and is an arbitration expert. Shis is currently the John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at the Ohio State University Moritz…
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Aric J. Garza

Aric J. Garza is an accomplished online ADR professional who has been appointed arbitrator in over 105 consumer, commercial and employment cases and has mediated numerous cases to settlement. He is experienced with conducting online mediations and arbitrations via Zoom. Mr. Garza has been a litigator since 1999, handling cases…
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Phillip Schaedler

Our firm practices primarily in the areas of Family law, Municipal law, Land Use Planning, Criminal Defense and Alternative Dispute Resolution. We have an extensive facilitative mediation and arbitration practice. We have experience with general civil, family (including custody and parenting time), agriculture, probate, estate, health care, product liability, insurance…
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Dr. Gary Clayton

Dispute and Conflict Mitigation Services for civil, family and business related issues, as well as, mediation, arbitration and negotiation consulting. Online services facilitated via Zoom.
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Joyce Mitchell

Joyce is an experienced employment and labor attorney of 30 years licensed in Maryland and the District of Columbia, a Distinguished Fellow and Board Member of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM),  and a panel arbitrator.  Joyce has been an arbitrator since 1997 when she took her training and served…
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Scott Toner

Scott R. Toner, Esq., is a Florida Supreme Court Certified County, Family, Circuit, and Appellate Court Mediator. He conducts private and court-ordered mediations. He is also a qualified arbitrator, who is approved by Circuit Courts throughout Florida for appointment as an arbitrator pursuant to Section 44.103, Florida Statutes, and Rule…
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Donald B. Cripe

MC3 Certified, Award Winning Mediator. Online Dispute Resolution Services available Law Professor (Mediation/ADR), Univ. of La Verne College of Law; Superior Court Judicial Arbitrator since 1996—having conducted several hundred arbitrations; Settlement Judge since 1996; Family Law Mediator-Riverside Sup Ct Mandatory Dispute Resolution Conference Program; General Mediator-Dispute Resolution Services, Riverside; Civil…
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DeAndra Roaché

DeAndra Roaché is a professional full-time neutral specializing in arbitration, mediation, and fact-finding of various disputes such as labor, employment, financial securities, construction, consumer, and other business disputes. She conducts arbitrations and mediations via in-person and virtual/online formats. Ms. Roaché works with companies, court systems, and individuals in various industries…
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Rose Rameau

Rose Rameau, JD, FCIArb, ArbP, Esq. is the Founding Partner of RAMEAU INTERNATIONAL LAW, a boutique law firm in Washington D.C.  She is a leading practitioner in international arbitration and a Fulbright Scholar at the University Of Ghana School of Law from 2014-2016 where she taught Investment and International Commercial…
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