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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lynn Roberson has 8 years experience as a neutral. Her primary practice area is Premises Liability. Ms. Roberson also practices in the areas of premises liability for violent crime, sexual harassment and other discrimination cases, products liability, malicious prosecution, professional malpractice, and other personal injury law, as well as insurance coverage matters.
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.
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.
