WORK EXPERIENCE
Arbitrator and Mediator (See Credentials & Training Page for details) July 2015-present
BGC Partners/ Cantor Fitzgerald (New York & London) Jan. 2008 – July 2015
Deputy General Counsel/ Chief Litigation Counsel
Saul Ewing LLP (Princeton, NJ) Jan. 1996 – Jan. 2008
Partner and for 4 years Vice Chair of Litigation
McManimon & Scotland and predecessors (Newark, NJ) Jan. 1987 – Jan. 1996
Partner (Associate first year there), Litigation
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison (New York, NY) Sep. 1976 – Jan. 1987
Associate
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (See Programs and Publications for latest)
Assessor (Tutor), CIArb Accelerated Route to Fellowship, December 8-9, 2023, August 19-20, 2021
Harvard Law School talk October 20, 2017, Making Arbitration More Appealing
ABA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Conference, April 2016. Panelist, Getting What You Asked For: Managing a Fast and Efficient Arbitration
Settlement Agreements in Commercial Disputes (NJ Chapter Author)
Special Professor, Hofstra Law School, Fall 2015-present (Law and Role of In-house Counsel)
The American Law Institute – ABA Continuing Legal Education Group
Panelist/Lecturer
- Intellectual Property Licensing Today and its related Cross Border Business Transactions: IP and Related Issues 2005-2008
Initially authored material and spoke on ADR, then on Antitrust, in IP Licensing – see, e.g.,
When The Deal Goes South: Dispute Negotiation And ADR
Cross Border Transactions IP -2006
Intellectual Property Licensing Today -2008
Association of Corporate Counsel – America
Panelist
- The Law of Inside Counsel several times per year,
- Created, edited, managed the course material, and presented 1995-2008
Program offered by metro NY and NJ Chapters, and occasionally others
New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
Multiple programs on Federal Practice, about semi annually 1990-2005
Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School 1979-1980
Adjunct Lecturer (four semesters)
EDUCATION
Harvard University Law School (Cambridge, MA)
Juris Doctor – 1976
University at Albany, State University of New York (Albany, NY)
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, magna cum laude – 1973
- President of the Student Association from 1971-1973, and related other alumni posts
BAR ADMISSIONS
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- New York 1977
- Washington DC 1977 (inactive as of 2018)
- New Jersey 1987
- Multiple Federal Courts
