2008 CDRC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 Jennifer BullockPhone: 650-513-0330 x303 E-mail: jbullock@pcrcweb.org
JENNIFER BULLOCK is the Interim Executive Director of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center in San Mateo, CA where she has been on staff for over 7 years. Jennifer's background is in community mediation including multi-party, complex situations. She has worked with city governments to design and facilitate public meetings, with businesses to provide training in communication skills for staff, and with groups of neighbors, co-workers, business professionals, community members and civic leaders to help them work through their disputes. Jennifer has also provided numerous hours of training to PCRC's volunteer mediators and facilitators. Jennifer earned a BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College in 1994 and an MA in Conflict Resolution from the McGregor School of Antioch University in 2001. Jennifer has taught an undergraduate course in conflict management at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. She is a founding member of the coordinating committee 0f the California Coalition for Community Mediation. Jennifer serves as Chair of the Community Mediation Committee. |
 Richard ChernickPhone: 213-253-9790 E-mail: rchernick@msn.com
RICHARD CHERNICK is Vice President and Managing Director of the JAMS Arbitration Practice. He arbitrates and mediates large and complex arbitrations, both domestic and international. Richard is the author or co-author of leading texts on ADR, Employment ADR and International Arbitration and Mediation; he is a frequent trainer and lecturer on arbitration and mediation topics. He is Immediate Past Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association and Founding President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. Richard served as the ABA’s Advisor to the drafting committee for the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act. He is a Co-Chair of the Planning Committee for the Arbitration Training Institute of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section. |
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STEVEN P. DINKIN has directed the National Conflict Resolution Center since 2003. At NCRC he has spearheaded the effort to establish national standards for mediation training; secured a national contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide trainers and mediators for TSA’s Model Workplace Program; and laid the groundwork for a cross-border initiative to bring mediation training and services to Baja, California. Before arriving at NCRC, Steve was Program Director at the Center for Dispute Settlement (CDS) where he designed and established the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Washington, D.C. He also mediated workplace and employment cases under contract with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Reserve System and the Office of Compliance (an independent office in the legislative branch of the Federal Government, engaged in resolving workplace disputes within the House of Representatives, the Senate and the other congressional offices). In addition to his work at CDS, Steve was an Adjunct Law Professor at George Washington University where he taught a mediation clinic; President of the D.C. Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution; and Chair of the D.C. Bar Litigation Section, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Steve earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School. Steve chairs the Education Committee/Southern California. |
 Paul Dubow, 2008 PresidentPhone: 415-495-6308 E-mail: pdubow2398@aol.com
PAUL DUBOW is an arbitrator and mediator in San Francisco specializing in securities, employment, insurance and commercial law matters. He has mediated over 200 cases and has served as an arbitrator in over 100 matters. He is a former co-chair of both the Arbitration Committee of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section and the Contra Costa County Bar Association ADR Committee. He is also a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a contributor to that organization’s Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration. He is past president of the Mediation Society and was a member of the Judicial Council working group that promulgated the rules for mediators in court annexed mediations. He is also the author of the arbitration section of the State Bar Business Law Section’s annual update of California law and a member of the editorial boards of California Litigation Magazine and the Securities Arbitration Commentator. |
 Don Fobian, 2008 Immediate Past President Work Phone: 619-208-1828 e-mail: dfobian@msn.com DON FOBIAN is a full time neutral, specializing in mediation and facilitation. He is also an arbitrator for cases filed with the Contractors State License Board and the NASD. Don is an adjunct professor at Chapman University College in San Diego and San Diego State University. Besides being on CDRC’s Board for the past seven years, Don is a Board Member for ADR-San Diego. He chairs the Nominating Committee.
FREDERICK J. GLASSMAN is a founding partner of Mayer & Glassman Law Corporation in Los Angeles; a veteran of 35 years of litigation, he now focuses his practice on resolution-oriented approaches to family law disputes. He is the President of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association and writes a monthly column for the LACFLA Newsletter. Fred has authored local and national articles and teaches courses for the UCLA Extension Department of Legal Programs on Collaborative Practice and Mediation. He continues to present his protocol for enrolling the client to collaborative practice groups throughout California. Fred has appeared on the Time Warner Public Television Shows “Changing the Face of Divorce – New Century, New Beginnings” and “What is Collaborative Law?”. He is a frequent speaker and panel member for the American Bar Association Family Law and Dispute Resolution Sections annual conferences as well as the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals annual forums. He has presented “Collaborative Law – The Optimum Fit for Financial Professionals” for the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. His review of Family Code 2013 recognizing collaborative law in California appears as the leading article for the September, 2007 issue of LexisNexis-Matthew Bender California Law Monthly. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America and is listed in Martindale Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers with their highest AV-rating. Fred’s complete curriculum vitae is available on his website: www.mglawcorp.com. |
 John Horn Work Phone: 213-487-8660 e-mail: j.horn@amccenter.com
JOHN HORN is currently the Managing Director of the Arbitration Mediation and Conciliation Center (AMCC). AMCC is a full service dispute resolution firm providing for the dispute resolution needs of both public and private sector clients across the country. John received his Juris Doctorate from |
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CARL INGWALSON has over 35 years legal experience representing clients in a large variety of general business matters involving commercial, construction and real estate issues and related transactional work, litigation and dispute prevention and resolution. Since 1992, Carl has established a reputation as a respected neutral, and has acted as an Arbitrator, Mediator, Special Master, Judge Pro Tempore and Early Neutral Evaluator for the American Arbitration Association, the San Diego Superior Court, and privately(approximately 600 arbitrations, 1200 mediations and a handful of the rest). Carl chairs the Arbitration Legislation Committee.
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DR. URS MARTIN LAEUCHLI is a certified mediator, arbitrator (FCIArb), international attorney, early neutral evaluator, settlement mentor, and sworn pro tem judge. He has taught negotiations, law, and economics in both the |
 Brohne LawhornePhone: 408-792-2330 E-mail: brohne.lawhorne@ohr.sccgov.org
BROHNE LAWHORNE, J.D., is a graduate of the University of California and Santa Clara University School of Law. He is the Director of Dispute Resolution Programs for the County of Santa Clara and the Ombudsman for the County Department of Family and Children’s Services and Department of Environmental Health. Brohne has been a full time practitioner of dispute resolution since 1999 and has mediated or facilitated more than 1721 disputes. Brohne teaches dispute resolution, communication, negotiation, public speaking, and writing for persuasion at several Bay Area colleges and universities including Stanford University, the University of California, the State University system, and the Monterey Institute for International Studies. |
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CANDACE L. MATSON is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP. A member of the firm's Real Estate, Environmental and Construction Practice Group, she has focused her practice on construction law for over 18 years. Candace represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, lenders and others in a wide range of private and public contexts, from the preconstruction phase through project close-out, including serving as an advocate in the litigation, arbitration and/or mediation of disputes. She is a former Chair of the Construction Subsection of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a former Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Associated General Contractors of California ("AGCC"), has served on the Los Angeles District Board of the AGCC, a former Director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction, and serves on the Board of Women Construction Owners and Executives (Los Angeles). Candace has published numerous articles on topics relevant to construction law and is a frequent speaker on such subjects. Candace also serves as a construction arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and the Arbitration Mediation Conciliation Center, and as a mediator with FORUM Dispute Management (an affiliate of National Arbitration Forum). Candace can be reached at cmatson@sheppardmullin.com.
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GERALD F. PHILLIPS is an attorney full time mediator and arbitrator with an office in Century City Los Angeles. He specializes in resolving complex litigation and entertainment controversies. He was recently listed as one of the 50 Top Neutrals in California. Gerry is a member of the Board of Director of CDRC and is on its 10th Anniversary Planning Committee. He is a founding member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. He is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine School of Law where he teaches ADR in the Entertainment Industry. He was a vice present of United Artists Corporation. Gerry is past chair of the State Bar Committee on ADR and the Beverly Hills Bar Association ADR Section. He was founder of the State Bar Business Law ADR Section. He is on the AAA, AFMA and CPR panels of arbitrators. He received the DRS 2004 Griffen Bell Volunteer Service Award. Gerry chairs the Membership Committee, and is the CDRC Ambassador for Publicity and Goodwill. |
 Michael R. Powell Work Phone: 213-362-1900 e-mail: powellm@adr.org
MICHAEL R. POWELL is Vice President of the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) Los Angeles Regional Office. He is primarily responsible for the promotion of the AAA’s domestic and international arbitration and mediation services to the legal and business communities. In addition, he is responsible for the recruitment and training of the Los Angeles Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators. He has worked extensively with the AAA General Counsel’s office, serving as a liaison for California legislative issues. He is a frequent speaker and trainer, and has written several published articles in the Alternative Dispute Resolution field. Michael serves on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., and the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA). |
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PETER ROBINSON is Managing Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution and Associate Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. Peter's humor, energy and ability to articulate lessons from his mediation experiences have made him a popular lecturer and trainer; he has presented advanced negotiation and mediation skills courses in more than thirty states and in Argentina, Canada, England, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, and Mexico. Prior to joining Pepperdine, Peter served as the director of the Christian Conciliation Service of Los Angeles (CCS), a non-profit dispute resolution center and a staff attorney for a US Government agency that insures pension benefits pursuant to ERISA. He has served on the boards of CCS, Ventura Center for Dispute Settlement, Dispute Resolution Services of the LACBA, the Southern California Mediation Association and the California Dispute Resolution Council. He may be reached at peter.robinson@pepperdine.edu.
Phone: 310-278-7560 E-mail: rar@beverlyhillslaw.com RONALD ROSENFELD is a partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Leeds, Wender and Rosenfeld LLP. His practice includes divorce mediation, collaborative divorce, divorce litigation, living-together agreements, prenuptial agreements, and postnuptial agreements. Ron is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” and “Martindale-Hubbell Bar register of Preeminent Lawyers”, AV-rated. Ron chairs the Collaborative Law Legislation Committee.  Mark RoyPhone: 209-202-6215 E-mail: medi8r@comcast.net
MARK ROY is a mediation program manager and developer in Central California and serves as director of mediation services at the Better Business Bureau of the San Joaquin Valley. Mark is director of the BBB's mediation programs in Fresno County and Kern County, and he is associate director of the community mediation center in Stanislaus County operated jointly with Project Sentinel. He began his ADR career in 1990 as the founding director of a victim-offender mediation program in Lafayette, Indiana, and later served as assistant director of a community mediation program in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After moving to California in 1994, Mark worked as associate director of Fresno Pacific University's Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies before joining the BBB in 2001. He is actively involved in the California Coalition for Community Mediation and previously served as president of the Central California Dispute Resolution Association and treasurer of the Central California Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution. Mark completed his undergraduate studies at Purdue University and recently earned a Juris Doctor degree from San Joaquin College of Law. Mark chairs the Awards Committee. |
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STEVEN R. SAUER, a former trial attorney, is based in Los Angeles and has been in private practice as a full-time mediator and arbitrator of international and domestic disputes since 1982. During 2004 he was the President of the Los Angeles Region of the Association for Conflict Resolution. Steven has been a member of the ADR Section Executive Committee for both the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Since 1996 he has been the Chair of the ADR Section of the Century City Bar Association and is a long standing member of the Dispute Resolution section of the American Bar Association. Steven served as a Hearing Examiner for the Los Angeles Police Commission as well as the City of Los Angeles Civil Service Commission . In addition to providing his mediator and arbitrator services privately as well as through numerous private provider groups and the State Superior Courts, he is a mediator for the Court of Appeal-First and Second Appellate Districts, and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He is a trainer for the American Arbitration Association on Arbitrator Ethics, Disclosure and Award Writing and lectures extensively on ADR mediation and arbitration issues involving the professional neutral. Steven has been a member of CDRC since its first year in existence.
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Steven Dinkin
Frederick Glassman 
Carl Ingwalson 
Urs Laeuchli
Candace Matson, 2008 Treasurer
Gerald F. Phillips
Steven Sauer|
KAREN SMITH is the CEO of the Arbitration Mediation & Conciliation Center (AMCC), a full service dispute resolution firm headquartered in
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ELIZABETH A. W. STRICKLAND is the Attorney-Mediator for the Civil Division of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Since 1994 Elizabeth has been a mediator, mediation trainer and mediation program administrator. She is active on the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s ADR Executive and Civil Practice Committees. Elizabeth also participates in a statewide coalition of ADR Administrators that meets quarterly to review developments in the ADR field and establish a uniform and consensus-based approach to mediation promotion and administration. Previously, Elizabeth has administered programs for the Santa Clara County community-based mediation program, and for the Santa Clara County Bar Association ADR Service. Elizabeth chairs the Communications Committee. |
 Gary Weiner Work Phone: 707-829-2333 e-mail: gw49@comcast.net
GARY A. WEINER is a mediator and an arbitrator with Resolution Remedies. He was the Director of the Sonoma County Superior Court Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution from its inception through June 2004. For 4 ½ years he called the Case Management Conference calendar in every civil case in the Court. While with the court Gary developed an unprecedented collaborative case management process in which counsel participated in constructing a case management plan for their cases which “fit the fuss.” He helped lawyers resolve pleading, discovery and dispute resolution process problems through the use of quick, incisive and practical suggestions, encouragement of collegiality and cooperation and clear focus on resolution as an imperative in getting cases out of the fight and into the solution. Gary is a former member of the ADR committee of the State Bar of California. He was an adjunct professor of law at the Hastings College Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and trained mediators in New Delhi and Bombay at the behest of the Institute for the Study and Development of Legal Systems. Gary has been a featured speaker on ADR at Bar Association meetings and other ADR conferences all over California, at the annual conference of the Center for Public Resources (CPR Institute in New York) and as member of numerous panels at other dispute resolution conferences all over the country. Gary chairs the Education Committee/Northern California. |
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MAURY ZILBER is a full time neutral and has over 25 years of experience as an arbitrator and mediator. He has arbitrated over 150 domestic and international commercial and consumer disputes over a wide range of business, intellectual property and public utility issues. In addition, he has mediated disputes relating to software development, rights to copyrighted designs, zoning violations and sales representation agreements. He serves as a member of a number of panels of the American Arbitration Association and serves on the panel of mediators for the California Court of Appeals, First Appellate District Mediation Program. He is a member of the Mediation Society of San Francisco, a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University Law School. Maury practiced business, public utility and intellectual property law with the Boston office of Nixon Peabody LLP for 35 years. He chairs the By-laws Committee. More information about Maury may be found at http://www.adrresolutions.com.
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Karen Smith, 2008 Secretary
Elizabeth Strickland