Mr. Ordover is a nationally prominent mediator and arbitrator. In the last three years, he mediated claims which aggregated more than $3 billion. His success rate is very high. His specialty is mediating complex, often multi-party disputes and business and professional break ups. He has mediated and arbitrated more than fifteen hundred cases involving a wide variety of issues. He founded and led Resolution Resources Corporation in 1991, retiring from RRC in 2004. He now resides in the San Diego metropolitan area and continues to mediate. His endeavors include ten years with a major New York firm as a litigator and trial lawyer; twenty years as a law professor at Hofstra University in New York and then Emory University Law School in Atlanta. He was a major figure in the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, serving as Northeast Regional Director and National Team Leader. He is the author of Alternatives to Litigation: Mediation, Arbitration, and the Art of Dispute Resolution, published by NITA. He has won awards from the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Roscoe Pound –American Trial Lawyer’s Foundation.
Commercial
- Bankruptcy, Anti Trust, Breach of Contract, International Investment Agreements, Defense Procurement Contracts, National and Territorial Distribution Contracts
United States as Party
- Superfund: General Motors Corporation v. United States; E.I. DuPont v. United States; Westinghouse Electric Company v. United States; United States v. Jones et al, Battery Superfund Site
- Clean Water Act: United States v. R. W. Davis
- Wrongful Death, Malpractice: Fitzgerald v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Taxation, Research Credits: Lockheed Martin Corporation v. United States
Corporate and Professional Dissolutions, and Closely held Corporations and Intra-corporate Battles,
Law Firms and Medical Practices
Employment
- Class actions, Racial discrimination, Age Discrimination, Sexual Harassment,
Gender Discrimination, Executive Downsizing, General Downsizing, ADA, Benefits
Health Care
- Multi-million dollar contract dispute involving health care contracts for more than
200,000 people, Health Care Coverage Matters, US West v. Metropolitan Life
Environment
- Superfund, Radioactive Waste, Waste Disposal, Adjacent Landowners, Real Estate
Development; Water Resources, Community Matters
Unfair Competition Matters
Insurance Coverage matters
Construction and construction defects
Intellectual Property
Professional Malpractice
Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death, Premises Liability, Construction Accidents, Serious Personal Injury,
Product Liability, FELA
Labor Unions, Jurisdictional Disputes, Class Actions
Trust & Estates
ERISA, Class Actions
Cross Cultural Matters
Sports
He is a frequent speaker on matters involving conflict prevention and resolution. He regularly lectures to bar association groups, corporations, trade associations, and government agencies.
He is a consultant in employment matters and designs internal dispute resolution systems. Mr. Ordover was the founder of Resolution Resources Corporation, an Atlanta- based full service ADR company. He retired as CEO on March 1, 2004. Mr. Ordover created RRC's mediation training program, which was regularly offered in Atlanta and has been offered throughout the United States, including Denver, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Florida. His book, Alternatives to Litigation: Mediation, Arbitration, and the Art of Dispute Resolution, is published by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and is in use at law schools, business schools and CLE programs. He was Program Director of NITA's first ADR course offered in Denver in 1992. He regularly teaches in mediation training programs for the U.S. Department of Justice. He's a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators.
Mr. Ordover is a magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University and the Yale Law School. He practiced with Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New York City for ten years. His concentration in those years was in major commercial litigation and trials. Though it was years before lawyers engaged in serious mediation efforts, he resolved a number of major cases through mediation, including a defense contract dispute involving twenty-seven parties.
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in American Law
