Multiparty, multi case commercial/environmental mediation.
Served as neutral in mock preparation for multimillion dollar international arbitration
• Panelist, New York Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
  
• Member Advisory Board, The Institute For Transnational Arbitration (Part of The Center for American and International Law), Dallas, Texas (2001-)
  
• Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, England (2002-)
  
• Volunteer Arbitrator, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Vienna (1998, 1999, 2000) (problems on Convention on the International Sale of Goods and other commercial conventions)
  
• Participated as an advocate in numerous labor arbitrations, mediations and mini trials in Massachusetts and New York.
  
• Served (1969-1973) as the first Counsel to the Office of Employee Relations in the administration of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. Duties included negotiating first labor arbitration agreements with New York State public service unions representing 180,000 state employees, drafting agreement language, represented the Governor in the first labor arbitrations pursuant to the first labor agreements, represented the Governor in the first fact-finding proceedings for contract formation (arbitrations with legislative review)
  
• Participated as an advocate in environmental mediation, neutral evaluations, minitrials and negotiations settling numerous large, complex, contentious multiparty environmental judicial and administrative proceedings
  
• Attendance at post-graduate short course on international commercial arbitration with Professor Arthur von Mehren, Harvard Law School (1989)
  
• Registered with the U.S. National Committee (USCIB) of the International Chamber of Commerce
  
• Panelist, National Arbitration Forum
  
• Listed, Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association
  
• Certified Mediator, US District Court, Northern District of New York

• Mock International Commercial Arbitration Under ICC Rules, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, Dec 8-11, 2003
  
• CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, Mediation Training Course, New York, Jan 2003
  
• International Chamber of Commerce: International Advanced Arbitration Practice Workshop
  Environmental Functions, Paris, November, 2002; ICC International Dispute Resolution: Spring Meeting, Psychological Impediments to Mediation, Multi Party and New Techniques for Mediation (June 2005).
• Institute For Transnational Arbitration, Arbitration & Involvement of Non-Parties (Washington DC March 2005), Arbitration Advocacy (Dallas, Texas, June 2004), Latin American Arbitration (June 2003), Technology Transfer Disputes and Technology in Arbitration (June, 2002); Arbitrating with Sovereigns ( June, 2001).
  
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York: The Future of Commercial Arbitration, New York, NY, October, 2002
  

Environmental Functions:

• Environmental Legislation: legislative manager and drafter of early important environmental legislation, e.g. mined land reclamation, wetlands, environmental review of governmental permit and projects
  
• Governmental administration: organized enforcement and permit granting process for state environmental department, managed agency legal staff, agency hearing officers and environmental police force
  
• Environmental law practice: founder and chair of one of the largest and most varied environmental law practices in New York State
  
• Adjunct professor:- International Environmental Law, LLM Program, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL (2001-)
  
• Teacher-author: adjunct environmental professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1988-1998) and contributing editor/author of environmental treatises
  
• Litigator: have litigated and, more importantly, settled some of the most complex environmental litigation in New York State. Judicial and client references and list of cases upon request.
  
• Local zoning board member adjudicating/mediating hundreds of land use proceedings

Governmental Positions:

• Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (1973-1975)
  
• Counsel, Governor’s Office of Employee Relations, State of New York (1969-1973)
  
• U.S. Department of Justice, Asst. U.S. Attorney (S.D.N.Y.) (1961-1963)
  
• Member, Town of Chatham Planning Board (1976 - present)
  

Other public organizational positions (partial listing):

• Member Executive Committee and Co-Chair Environmental Law Committee, International Practice Section, New York State Bar Association (2004-).
  
• Chair, New York State Archives Partnership Trust (corporation formed by statute). Board positions are appointed by the Governor and other governmental leaders (1996-present).
  
• Chair, Environmental Law Section, New York State Bar Association (1983-84), and other positions past and current
  
• Member, Government Law Center Advisory Board, Albany Law School
  
• Chair, Special Committee To Commemorate the Association’s 125th Anniversary, New York State Bar Association (2001-03)
  
• Member, Advisory Council, Center for International Business and Trade Law, John Marshall Law School (2001-)
  
• The Nature Conservancy, Eastern New York Chapter (1993-2002); Trustee and Chair of the Conservation Committee, Advisory Board (2002-present)
• Member, Commission on Environmental Law, International Union for Conservation of Nature (Bonn)
  
• Trustee, The Olana Partnership, member, Executive Committee (2002-)
  

Publications and Papers (Partial list):

• “Is Transparency of Governmental Administration Customary International Law In Investor-Sovereign Arbitrations –Courts and Arbitrators May Differ,” Arbitrational International, Vol 21, No 2 (2005)
• “Citizen Vs Citizen,” Arbitration in New Netherland, 1630-64, New York Archives, Vol 5, No 1 (2005)
• Co-Editor, New York State Bar Association Environmental Law Handbook (1987)
  
• Co-Editor, Contributing Author, New York State Bar Association, Treatise on New York Environmental Law (1992)
  
• Contributor and Principal Editor, Of Practical Benefit, New York State Bar Association, 1876-2001 (2003)
  
• International Environmental Law: Syllabi and Socratic method class lectures for LLM course on international environmental law, including specific attention to sources of international law, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and sovereign-investor disputes under the North American Free Trade Agreement, Biodiversity, Air and Atmosphere, Oceans and Forests. Adjunct Professor, John Marshall Law School LLM Program (2000 - )
  
• Background of US Superfund: Would This Be a Good or Bad Precedent for South America? Paper prepared for Environmental Panel: “So You Want to Build/Buy a Chemical/Manufacturing Plant in Chile, Brazil or Argentina….” New York State Bar Association Fall Meeting, Santiago, Chile, November, 2004
  
• "What on Earth is International Environmental Soft Law?", Lecture to the International Law Club, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, October, 2004.
  
• "U.S. Environmental Regulatory Failures and Successes", Presentation to the Advanced Environmental Law Workshop of the Environmental Section, New York State Bar Association, held September, 2001, Paris, France
  
• "Common Sense and Emerging Environmental Due Diligence Standards", International Project Finance Program, Center for International Legal Studies, Kitzbuhel, Austria, January, 2000
  
• "Outline of the Shrimp/Turtle Case Decided by the World Trade Organization", Presentation at the New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting, Environmental Law Section, January, 1999
  
• The Rockefeller Environmental Legacy, Leaders in Government Program, Symposium: “The Rockefeller Legacy: 40 Years Later,” State University of New York at Stonybrook, September, 1999
  
• "Brownfields – Their Present and Future", Northeastern Economic Developers Association, October, 1997
  
• "New York City Water Compact, Water, Water Everywhere..." Workshop Presentation, The Nature Conservancy, San Antonio, Texas, September 25, 1997
  
• "Environmental Law Aspects of U.S. Sewage and Drinking Water Privatization", International Seminar on Environmental Law, Environmental Law Section, New York State Bar Association, University College of London, London, England, May, 1997
  
• Environmental Law Survey Course: Socratic method lectures prepared for engineering students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Adjunct Professor, 1988-98
  
  

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