Mr. Dokson has practiced law in Atlanta for over thirty (30) years, and has been involved in ADR activities for the past two decades. His practice as both an advocate and an ADR neutral involves a wide variety of commercial and civil matters. Over the past few years, Mr. Dokson has mediated or arbitrated over one hundred cases, including:

• Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant matters
• Business breakups
• Contract disputes
• Defamation and other business tort cases
• Corporate and shareholder disputes
• Franchise matters
• Employment cases, including:
  Wrongful termination, racial discrimination, religious discrimination, age discrimination, ERISA and benefits claims, and employment contract issues
• Bankruptcy and reorganization matters
• Professional liability matters
• Personal injury and property damage cases, including:
  Wrongful death, Product liability and Serious Personal
  Injury claims
• Intellectual Property cases
• Insurance claims, including life, disability and health claims
• Trust & Estate matters

Mr. Dokson is a frequent lecturer and trainer at CLE seminars on ADR matters. He was a founding Board Member of the Neighborhood Justice Center of Atlanta, one of the earliest mediation programs in the
Atlanta area.

Mr. Dokson is currently a shareholder in the Atlanta firm of Ellis, Funk, Goldberg, Labovitz & Dokson, P.C. He attended Brown University and the London School of Economics. He has a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago, where he was an Editor of the Law Review, and an L.L.M. degree from the Harvard Law School.

Mr. Dokson began his legal career in 1969 with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, a program for which he served as Executive Director from 1974 to 1980. Since 1980, he has practiced as a partner with several Atlanta firms, specializing in civil and commercial litigation and dispute resolution. Mr. Dokson has also continuously served since 1984 as an Adjunct Professor of Litigation at the Georgia State College of Law and at Emory Law School.

Mr. Dokson is certified as a neutral arbitrator and mediator by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution, and serves as a mediator and arbitrator on the commercial and complex case panels of both the Resolution Resources Corporation and the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Dokson is also a member of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR), the American Registry of Arbitrators and the ADR sections of the American, Georgia and Atlanta (Board Member) Bar Associations.

Mr. Dokson has been involved in many civic and professional activities. He was one of the founders of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF). He has been a Board Member of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society for over twenty (20) years. And he currently serves on, or has previously been a member of, the boards of the Paideia School, the Temple, the Anti-Defamation League, the Downtown YMCA, the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, and the Brown University National Alumni Schools Program.