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Mediated 60+ cases; Neutral Arbitrator in 10+ AAA/ICDR arbitrations; Member, Mediation and Arbitration Panels of the American Arbitration Association; Court-Appointed mediator for the SDNY and Commercial Division Panel of the NY Supreme Court; Special Master, New York State Appellate Division, First Department; US Department of Justice Hearing Officer, Sept.11 Victims Compensation Fund.Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School, Graduate Practice Seminar in Arbitration; Visiting Professor in Arbitration in Budapest, Hungary and Kaliningrad, Russia. Advised in the creation of the Jerusalem Arbitration Center and authored USAID funded study of ADR in Republic of Georgia. Written and spoken widely on ADR. At Kaye Scholer LLP I was a member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Antitrust Department and Founder and Partner in Charge of the Frankfurt Office. 40+ years of experience in representing and counseling US and foreign clients with respect to litigations, arbitrations and mediations, Government investigations, M&A and other transactions.