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.
Donald (Don) Boyken has been an arbitrator since 1997. Having 30 years in the construction industry, Mr. Boyken is experienced in all areas of construction. His work as a Contractor, Project Engineer, Cost Analyst and Turn-Around Specialist uniquely qualifies him to advise clients on projects with foreseeable problematic issues and to resolve the conflicts before they become a hindrance to the project. Mr. Boyken is the Chairman and CEO of Boyken International
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. 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.
A. H. (Nick) Gaede is a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers and a Member of the American Law Institute. Mr. Gaede has 20 years experience as a neutral. He is experienced in the areas of construction law, domestic and foreign, government contracts and general litigation. He is a partner with Bradley Arant Rose & White.
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.
William (Bill) Hopson’s principal practice area is Construction. He is also experienced in the areas of hospitality, real estate and corporate areas including planning, negotiation and dispute resolution with regard to public and private contracts, acquisitions, development, management, suretyship, insurance, labor and employment. Mr. Hopson is a partner with Stites & Harbison.
Firooz Israel has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry. Mr. Israel has had direct responsibility for the design and construction of multidisciplinary projects including commercial, industrial, residential, and government projects. The projects range in size from feasibility studies to over $500 million including domestic and international construction work. Mr. Israel has extensive experience serving as an arbitrator of construction disputes for "Fast Track," "Regular Track," and "Large Complex" cases with the AAA. He has served as sole arbitrator as well as a member of three-arbitrator panels (including chairman) in Georgia, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Thomas (Tom) Kelleher has extensive government and construction contract experience with a spectrum of issues involving bidding, changes, differing site conditions, delays, and terminations. Mr. Kelleher has represented clients on hospital projects, airport facilities, research laboratories, convention facilities, prisons, federal and state courthouse and office complexes, and resort hotels. He has practiced before the various federal government boards of contract appeals, as well as federal and state courts. Mr. Kelleher is a partner with Smith, Currie & Hancock.
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.
Kenneth (Ken) Menendez is the senior litigation partner in the Atlanta office of the law firm of Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C. His practice focuses on complex business disputes. Mr. Menendez also is experienced with employment, trade secrets, construction, health care, financial transactions and general corporate litigation.
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.
George Reid has successfully mediated disputes for more than ten years, and has actively served as an arbitrator for more than twenty years. Mr. Reid is experienced in disputes by and between owners, real estate developers, contractors, subcontractors, sureties, architects, engineers, insurance companies, local governing authorities and others. As a pro-active mediator with the benefit of wide construction experience, he has an excellent record of helping parties resolve disputes. Additionally, as an arbitrator he has served individually, and as a panel member, on both large and complex cases, as well as on small fast-track cases, involving virtually every type of construction project.
Frank Riggs is expert in construction law matters, including the counseling of owners, general contractors, construction managers, trade contractors, suppliers and design professionals in dispute avoidance, as well as the representation of construction industry participants in complex construction disputes. Mr. Riggs is an active national lecturer and writer in the field of construction contract law. He is a senior member of his firm’s Construction and Government Contracts Practice Group.
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.
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.
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.
