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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lovita Tandy concentrates on traditional labor law, employment discrimination litigation, and employment related contractual disputes including litigating race discrimination, sexual harassment, trade secret, restrictive covenant, FMLA, reduction-in-force, age discrimination, whistleblower litigation (including Sarbanes-Oxley Act litigation) state law tort and complex breach of contract matters. Ms. Tandy is a partner in King & Spalding's Labor and Employment Practice Group.