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.

Mark F. Dehler’s principal practice area is Personal Injury. He is also experienced in the areas of professional liability, insurance coverage, small business, and landlord tenant disputes. Mr. Dehler has 15 years experience as a mediator and arbitrator. He is a sole practitioner in Decatur.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ellwood "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.

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.

David Zacks has been a neutral for 12 years. Mr. Zacks specializes in handling personal injury and complex litigation matters on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Zacks has served as President of the Antitrust Section of the State Bar of Georgia. He also served as a Director of the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys.