Raphael Lapin is a Harvard-trained (and passionate) negotiation, mediation and communication specialist who serves as negotiation consultant and adviser to Fortune 500 corporations and governments globally. He is principal of Lapin Negotiation Services and adjunct professor of law at Wittier School of Law in Southern California, where he teaches negotiation and mediation. He has also lectured on international conflict resolution at Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles. His clients include: ✪AT&T ✪Booz Allen ✪British Telecom ✪Huntington-Ingalls ✪Governments of Qatar and UAE ✪Microsoft Corp ✪Northrop Grumman Corp ✪Turner Construction ✪USAID ✪The United States Air Force ✪US State Department ✪Yahoo! Inc ✪York International.Born in South Africa, educated in the United Kingdom and having consulted extensively in the UK, Europe, China, SE Asia and the Middle East, Raphael brings an international richness and cultural understanding to his work - an asset in today’s world of globalization. Raphael has helped his clients negotiate multi-million dollar complex transactions. He has also successfully mediated many disputes encompassing the areas of intellectual property, construction, business, defense, healthcare, employment, medical malpractice, labor union issues, and international negotiations where cultural differences often play a key role. His driving philosophy is to help parties search for creative, innovative and value-generating solutions while at the same time, strengthening the ongoing working relationships.He is author of “Working with Difficult People” (Penguin Books 2009) and of numerous published articles on negotiation, dispute resolution and corporate and diplomatic relationship building, He served on the board of the Northern California Mediation Association and is an advanced practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution. He is a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court Dispute Resolution Panel.