Education, Training & Honors

Harvard Law School (J.D., 1973)
Cornell University (B.S., Industrial & Labor Relations, 1967)
Conservatorio di Musica, Florence, Italy (Certificato di violino)

Selected/trained by the Massachusetts Bar Association to serve in one of the nation's first attorney mediation programs (1980-82); Field research abroad on mediator/negotiator techniques and dispute resolution in Italy, Kenya and India, including observation of mediations, interviews with mediators, and negotiation of contracts (1982-83).
Practice concentrated in mediation and arbitration since 1984.
Multiple year listings in The Best Lawyers in America.
Fluent in Italian.

Past Professional Activities and Referral Sources

Referral mediator, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts;
Mediator and Master, Superior Court of Massachusetts; designed the Hampden County Superior Court Mediation Program and served as complex case mediator; assisted in the design of and mediated cases for the Suffolk County Superior Court Mediation Program

Civil litigation attorney in private practice: Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, California (primarily defense work for large corporate clients); small office/ solo practitioner, Boston and Northampton, Massachusetts (primarily individual plaintiff, with some small business plaintiff and defense work)

Dispute Resolution Instructor/Lecturer: Harvard Law School mediation training program; conferences sponsored by the Flaschner Judicial Institute, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations, American Arbitration Association, Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, and the University of Bologna (Italy) Law School during its 900th anniversary year; Adjunct Professor, "Dispute Resolution and Lawyers," Western New England Law School; Author: "Should Parties Tell Mediators Their Bottom Line?" 6 Dispute Resolution Magazine 30 (Spring, 2000 - American Bar Association); "Moving Negotiations from Idle to Forward," 1987 Missouri Journal of Dispute Resolution 39; "The Role of the President in National Emergency Disputes," 13 Industrial & Labor Relations Research 14 (Cornell University, May, 1967)

Bar Admissions: California (1973), Massachusetts (1977), respective federal courts, and U.S. Supreme Court (1981)

Present Affiliations: American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution; Massachusetts Bar Association

Present Referral Sources: In order to maintain independence, I only accept cases in which the parties' attorneys directly contact my office.

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