Construction Industry Experience

• Senior Counsel and Chief Counsel of the $14.7B Central Artery/Tunnel Project, managing all legal issues on the Project.
• Associate Project Director for Claim Resolution on the CA/T Project, managing the resolution of thousands of construction claims with a claimed value of over $460M.
  
• Advisor to Princeton University on the $50M Lewis Library Project.
  
• Liaison between outside counsel and expert team on a City of Boston lawsuit involving a multi-million dollar claim on installation of a fireprotection system.
  
• Advisor for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works on its construction claims process and on multi-million dollar claims.
  
• Chairperson of DRBs on two $45+ million bridge projects and Member of DRB on $100M+ highway project in Ohio.
  

Other Experience

• Various mediations and arbitrations involving court matters and construction claims.
  
• Formerly a commercial litigator at two leading Boston, Massachusetts law firms.
  

ADR Training and Qualifications

• 40-hour training by Mediation Works, Inc. and Harvard Program on Negotiation
  
• Commercial Arbitrator panel of the American Arbitration Association
  
• Mediator panel of the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution
  
• Arbitrator panel of the American Dispute Resolution Center, Inc.
  
• Arbitrator/Mediator/DRB panels of Construction DisputeResolution Services, LLC
  
• Arbitrator panel of FINRA (formerly NASD)
  
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK)
  
• Arbitration panel of the National Arbitration Forum
  
• Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Member and ChairpersonTraining
  
• Caltrans DRB and Dispute Resolution Advisor Training
  

Organization Memberships

• American Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution (Co-chair of the Arbitration Committee; Chair, Disclosure Subcommittee of the Arbitration Committee) and Forum on the Construction Industry (Member)
  
• Association for Conflict Resolution (Member of Leadership Council of the Commercial Section; Co-chair of Real Estate and Construction Committee)
  
• Transportation Research Board (Member of Committee on Contract Law)
  
• Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (Co-regional Representative/New England)
  
• Massachusetts Uniform Mediation Act Working Group (Process, Legislative and Public Sector Committees)
  

Professional Activities

Speaker at many conferences and groups about the use of alternative dispute resolution in the construction industry, including the American Bar Association Section of Public Contract Law Annual Federal Procurement Institute; the Construction Management Association of America Annual Conference; the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Legal Workshop and Annual Conference; the San Francisco and London Superconferences; the American Road and Transit Builders Annual Conference; the Connecticut Bar Association and the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers; the Federal ADR Working Group; the Ohio Transportation and Engineering Conference; the Construction Specifications Institute (NH chapter); the National Contract Management Association (Boston Chapter); the Caltrans Contract Law Workshop; the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Annual Conference; and the Association For Conflict Resolution Advanced Commercial Mediation Institute.

Publications

Published articles on DRB practice in The Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Forum, including “What Role Should Lawyers Play in the DRBProcess?”; “’End of the Contract Claims’: Tips for Handling Complex ClaimsBefore the DRB;” and “The Use of ‘Adjudication DRBs’ Where Parties Are Subject To Adjudication Or Arbitration Processes.”

Background and Education

• Constructive Dispute Resolutions, 2006 to Present (Principal)
  
• Carter & Burgess, Inc., 2005 (Claims Services Manager)
  
• Central/Artery Tunnel Project, 1992 to 2005 (Senior Counsel, Chief Counsel, Associate Project Director For Claim Resolution)
  
• Hutchins & Wheeler, 1989 to 1992 (Senior Associate)
  
• Palmer & Dodge, 1984 to 1989 (Associate and Senior Associate)
  
• Law Clerk to the Hon. William Callow, Wisconsin Supreme Court 1983 to 1984
  

• J.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (Managing Editor, Wisconsin Law Review)
  
• B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison (Phi Beta Kappa)