Laura Kaster Email & Phone Number

Past Chair of the NYSBA DR Section, Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, a CEDR accredited and IMI certified Mediator with over 30 years of experience. Ms. Kaster has arbitrated and mediated over 400 matters. She is the 2018 Richard K. Jeydel Award winner for ADR Excellence from the Garibaldi ADR Inn of Court and New Jersey's 2014 Boskey Award winner for ADR professional of the year. Selected for the Tech List of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center as one of the World's Leading Technology Neutrals, she brings to her work as a neutral proven ability to analyze and resolve complex IP and commercial transactions, patent disputes in the telecom and pharmaceutical and medical device industries, securities disputes, class actions, as well as business, partnership, through negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Appropriate Dispute Solutions is the name of her business and her approach to dispute resolution.Specialties: Broad experience in patent, trademark, complex civil litigation,intellectual property litigation, employment, and appellate litigation of all kinds. Ms. Kaster can also fashion presentations for in-house litigation groups and has presented at the College of Commercial Arbitrators, PLI, the ABA Dispute Resolution Meetings, NJSBA, NJAPM, and NYSBA. She is Co-Editor of NY Dispute Resolution Lawyer and an Adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School. She is past President of the Justice Marie L. Garibaldi ADR Inn of Court and of the NJSBA DR Section.

Listed skills include Arbitration, Mediation, Dispute Resolution, Litigation, and 23 others.