John Allgood has 20 years experience as a neutral. His principal practice area is Labor and Employment. Mr. Allgood also has experience in the areas of commercial, real estate, construction, and warranty. Mr. Allgood was on the 1996 and 1998 U.S. Olympic Committee Arbitration Panels.

Larry Bogart has been a practicing attorney for 44 years. His principal practice area is Real Estate. Mr. Bogart is also experienced in Construction, Commercial, Trusts and Estates, Employment, Bankruptcy, Securities, Environment, Zoning, and Pest Control Companies matters. Mr. Bogart is retired from Powell Goldstein LLP.

Michael (Mike) Bowers is a former Attorney General of the State of Georgia. Georgia Trend Magazine named Mr. Bowers as one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians from their beginning in 1990 through 1997 and again in 2003. His principal practice area is civil litigation. Mr. Bowers is also experienced in the areas of Commercial, Construction, Employment, Section 1983, Environment, Premises Liability, and Product Liability. He currently serves as Chairman of the Georgia Judicial Nominating Commission. Mr. Bowers is a partner at Balch & Bingham, has extensive experience as a mediator and is one of the most sought-after neutrals in Atlanta.

Bruce Brown has represented clients in complex commercial and constitutional litigation with substantial experience in multiparty mediation, arbitration and trials. His principal practice area is Commercial matters. Mr. Brown is also experienced in the areas of construction and intellectual properties. Mr. Brown is a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge.

C. David Butler was appointed U. S. Trustee, Region 21 (Bankruptcy Court). His experience is in the areas of Bankruptcy and Commercial matters. During his career, Mr. Butler has negotiated successfully in a wide variety of matters, including complex real estate disputes and workouts, claims against corporate officers and directors in both large and small companies, controversies involving corporate and construction law, and disputes involving partnership and professional liability. Mr. Butler was a Senior Partner at Alston & Bird for 14 years. He now practices with Shapiro Fussell Wedge Smotherman Martin & Price, LLP.

Steve Butler is General Counsel with Bechtel Corporation, the world’s largest engineering and construction firm.

Greg Crochet is an experienced mediator and arbitrator. His principal practice area is Employment. Mr. Crochet is also experienced in the areas of Commercial, Securities, and Insurance.

Taylor Daly has 15 years experience as mediator and arbitrator. Her principal practice area is Product Liability. Ms. Daly is also an experienced neutral with a variety of areas including personal injury, commercial, premises liability, and employment – sexual abuse and harassment disputes. In her 24 years as a civil trial lawyer, Ms. Daly has handled commercial, complex, products, toxic tort, and transportation matters.

Richard (Rick) Deane was appointed by President Clinton as United States attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in 1998. Mr. Deane also served 4 years as U.S. Magistrate judge. His principal practice area is general litigation. Mr. Deane is also experienced in the areas of RICO, commercial, employment, healthcare, and section 1983. Mr. Deane is now a partner with Jones Day.

H. Lane Dennard is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Prior to retirement, Mr. Dennard practiced in the field of labor and employment law for over 30 years. He served as managing partner of the Atlanta office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart, and was a senior partner at King & Spalding for 12 years.

Foy Devine has more than 35 years litigation experience. His principal practice area is Personal Injury. The National Law Journal has called Mr. Devine "one of the South's most prominent plaintiff's products liability attorneys." He is also listed in Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Devine is also experienced in the areas of Commercial, Product Liability, and Medical Malpractice. He has particular expertise in the area of automobile products liability -- an area he helped to pioneer in Georgia with a precedent setting verdict in 1982 in a case involving defective gas tanks in Ford cars.

Robert Dokson has 20 years of ADR experience. His principal practice area is Commercial matters. Mr. Dokson is also experienced in the areas of Commercial including Trade Secret, Restrictive Covenant and shareholder disputes; Franchise matters; Employment including discrimination, ERISA and benefits claims, and employment contract issues; Bankruptcy and reorganization, Professional liability, Personal injury, Product liability, Intellectual Property, Insurance claims (life, disability and health), and Trusts & Estate.

C. Wilson DuBose has almost 20 years experience as a neutral and more than 30 years experience as a commercial litigator and construction lawyer. His principal practice area is Construction. Mr. DuBose is also experienced in the areas of antitrust, business torts, insurance disputes, personal injury, civil rights, government contracts, employment law, real estate, intellectual property, banking law, tax, and environmental law. He is a past president of the Atlanta Bar Association, a member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Georgia and a member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association.

John Floyd served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia in its largest RICO prosecution and the companion civil RICO forfeiture action, and as a Special Assistant District Attorney in the successful prosecution of Sidney Dorsey, the former sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, on charges including murder and RICO. He is also experienced in the areas of Business Torts, Federal and State RICO, Health Care and Professional Liability, Litigation and Internal Investigations. Mr. Floyd is a partner with Bondurant Mixson & Elmore.

Floyd Hale has mediated approximately 2,000 cases and arbitrated scores of cases. Mr. Hale is experienced as a neutral in the areas of employment, contract, environmental, commercial, personal injury, wrongful-death, product liability, divorce, securities, construction, stockholder, and partnership. Mr. Hale is skilled and experienced in mediating cases involving strong emotions and large numbers of participants. Before limiting his practice to serving as a neutral, he spent more than 20 years as a litigation attorney (16 years), an inside corporate attorney, and an adjunct professor of law.

Robert (Bob) Hill has more than 30 years experience as an attorney. His principal practice area is Product Liability. Mr. Hill also has experience in the areas of Contract and Warranty, Building Collapse, Engineering and Construction Liability, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Fraud and Misrepresentation, Intellectual Property and Wrongful Disclosure and Major Claim Insurance Defense. Mr. Hill is a partner with McLain & Merritt.

John Hinchey served as Chair of the world’s largest organization of construction lawyers, the American Bar Association Forum on The Construction Industry. Mr. Hinchey is a Fellow and served on the Board of Governors of the American College of Construction Lawyers. He is a former Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association, Construction Law Section. Mr. Hinchey has 12 years experience as a neutral. His practice focuses on the law of construction and commercial contracting matters representing clients across a broad spectrum of construction, contracting and procurement activities. Mr. Hinchey is also experienced in the areas of Business Litigation, Global Projects, Energy Industries, International and Telecommunications.

James (Jim) Hoover has more than 15 years experience as a neutral. His principal practice area is Employment and Labor. Mr. Hoover is experienced in the areas of commercial, real estate, securities, and warranty. Mr. Hoover is of counsel at Ford & Harrison.

Terry Howell has extensive experience with business disputes, class actions, product liability, and insurance coverage matters. Mr. Howell’s principal area of practice is Insurance Coverage. Mr. Howell is general counsel for the Georgia Retail Association and frequently counsels its members concerning the prevention and resolution of business disputes.

Cary Ichter’s principal practice area is Commercial. Mr. Ichter is also experienced in the areas of employment (including claims made under Title VII and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, as well as claims of sexual harassment, restrictive covenants ancillary to employment agreements and trade secret misappropriation actions) and copyright infringement (involving both computer software and musical recordings). He has 5 years experience as a mediator and arbitrator. Mr. Ichter is a partner with Balch & Bingham.

Frank Love Jr. has 15 years experience as a mediator and arbitrator. Mr. Love is a retired partner with Powell Goldstein LLP and former chairman of the Firm's Litigation Department. He specialized in commercial litigation, including First Amendment rights, professional and product liability, personal injury, sports and entertainment, patent infringement and condemnation proceedings. Mr. Love is an experienced mediator and arbitrator.

Ellen Malow has extensive experience in toxic torts, employment, commercial disputes, products liability, personal injury and pharmaceutical litigation.

Randolph (Randy) Mayer is well known as a highly experienced mediator. Mr. Mayer has been appointed as mediator by several different federal judges. He is experienced in Securities, Libel, Personal Injury, Business Torts, and General Commercial Litigation. Mr. Mayer is a partner with Mayer & Beal.

Frank McFadden is nationally known for his practice in the field of ADR and has nearly fifty years of legal experience. He is a former U.S. District Court Chief Judge for the Northern District of Alabama. Judge McFadden is a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers. He is experienced with commercial, antitrust, construction, environment, intellectual property, product liability, securities and RICO disputes. He is currently a member at Capell & Howard.

J. Dart Meadows has been national product liability counsel for one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of industrial woodworking machinery for 15 years. His primary practice area is Product Liability. Mr. Meadows has been co-chair of the Hand and Power Product Liability Section of the DRI (Defense Research Institute). Mr. Meadows is also experienced in the areas of Business Disputes, Casualty, Energy and Utility, Healthcare, Real Property/Title Insurance, and State and Local Government.

Elwood "Ebb" Oakley is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Professor Oakley is experienced with complex cases involving contract disputes, securities fraud, or health care institutions. He has arbitrated, serving mainly as sole arbitrator or chief arbitrator on a three-person panel, more than 30 cases in the past several years. Professor Oakley has also written extensively in support of ADR. Appearing in law journals, business journals, and business practitioner outlets, his publications have addressed the use of arbitration and mediation to resolve insurance, securities, contracts, health care, and employment disputes.

Abraham (Abe) Ordover is a nationally prominent mediator and arbitrator. In the last three years, he mediated claims, which aggregated more than $3 billion. Mr. Ordover’s success rate is very high. His specialty is mediating complex, often multi-party disputes and business and professional break ups. Mr. Ordover 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 his ADR practice.

W. Fred Orr’s experience in his 39 years of practice has included cases involving: commercial real estate disputes; insurance coverage disputes; contract and business disputes; labor and employment disputes; business torts, including fraud claims; copyright claims; music and entertainment law; wrongful death claims; professional liability claims, including medical malpractice claims; catastrophic personal injury claims, from product defects, premises liability, construction project accidents, auto and trucking accidents, and assault and battery; constitutional and public interest law; equitable claims, including claims for restraining orders, temporary and permanent injunctions, and other equitable relief; contested trusts, estates, and guardianships; and other complex civil litigation.

Penn Payne has twenty-five years of experience in employment litigation and general business litigation in both federal and state courts. Ms. Payne frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator for employment and commercial disputes.

J. Ben Shapiro’s primary practice area is Construction. Mr. Shapiro represents owners, contractors, subcontractors and design professionals in construction disputes in state and federal courts, arbitration and mediation.

Daniel (Dan) Shea’s primary practice area is Labor & Employment. Mr. Shea has extensive experience in matters relating to collective bargaining, union arbitration, trial practice, particularly of employment discrimination cases. Roughly 25 to 40 percent of his practice during the last 10 years has been with respect to restrictive covenants-employment agreements on a nationwide basis. Mr. Shea’s FLSA practice has also been a significant part of his work for 30 years, including the trial of several wage-hour cases, including collective action claims. Mr. Shea is a partner with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.

John Sherrill has twenty-five years of experience as a neutral. He has acted as a neutral in nearly 500 matters. Mr. Sherrill also has 30 years of experience in handling all types of civil disputes, including securities litigation, real estate and construction related litigation, personal injury cases, employment-related litigation, and general business, contract and corporate litigation.

E. Kendrick Smith is the section head for the Litigation Department at Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP. Mr. Smith has special expertise in handling complex business litigation, multi-state tax litigation and land use issues. He also has extensive experience in resolving fiduciary controversies. Over the past 15 years, Ken served as lead counsel on most of Georgia’s landmark multi-state tax cases.

G. Anthony (Tony) Smith has 12 years experience as a mediator and arbitrator. Mr. Smith has substantial experience in large, complex, multi-party, construction-related disputes. He has represented construction clients including EPC contractors, general contractors, owners, architects/engineers, subcontractors, sureties and insurers. Mr. Smith is a member of Kilpatrick Stockton’s International Dispute Resolution Practice Group and has served as an advocate or arbitrator for cases in, among others, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Mr. Smith has also published and presented studies and papers on many topics of interest and concern to the international arbitration community.

Mark Trigg’s primary practice area is Commercial matters. Mr. Trigg also has experience with corporate and partnership disputes, class action litigation, defamation and media claims, real estate disputes, contractual claims, professional malpractice defense, governmental litigation and administrative proceedings and litigation arising from catastrophic personal injury claims. He has served as Special Counsel to the City of Atlanta Ethics Board and participated in drafting proposed amendments to the Georgia Ethics in Government Act.