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1999 - Present, Managing Partner, Ragsdale Beals Seigler Patterson & Gray, LLP, Atlanta, GA; 1980 - 1999, Partner/Associate, Varner Stephens Wingfield & Humphries, LLP, Atlanta, GA; 1978 - 1980, Associate, Powell Goldstein Fraser & Murphy, Atlanta, GA.
Approximately fifteen years experience (over two hundred disputes) as a Mediator in the above-referenced and other areas of dispute.
Primarily Evaluative.
Commercial Law and Litigation, Construction Law and Litigation, Real Estate Law and Litigation.
$450 per hour
American Arbitration Association, Member, Construction, Commercial and Large and Complex Case Arbitration Panels, Mediation Panel; Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), Construction and Insurance Panels; College of Commercial Arbitrators, Fellow and Member, Board of Directors; American College of Civil Trial Mediators, Fellow; State Bar of Georgia (Dispute Resolution Section, Past Chair and Member of Executive Committee), Atlanta (Dispute Resolution Section, Immediate Past Chair, Member of Board of Directors, and Construction Law Section, Chair, Member, Board of Directors ) and American Bar Associations (Member, Dispute Resolution Section); Lawyers Club of Atlanta; Georgia Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators, Fellow; National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, Fellow; Georgia Arbitrators' Forum, Fellow.
Philip E. Beck, Esq., Smith Currie & Hancock, LLP, Atlanta, GA; James F. Bidgood, Esq., Smith Currie & Hancock, LLP, Atlanta, GA; Tyron Brown, Esq., Hawkins & Parnell, LLP, Atlanta, GA; Herman Fussell, Esq., Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin, Atlanta, GA; John A. Sherrill, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw, Atlanta, GA; Lynn Stewart, Esq., Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, LLP, Atlanta, GA; Richard Hill, Esq., Mabry & McClelland, LLP, Atlanta, GA. Others available on request.
Henning Mediation, Atlanta, GA; American Arbitration Association, Atlanta, GA and Orlando, FL; Georgia Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators and National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, Orlando, FL; State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Athens, GA.
Lecturer, “Late Caucuses and Closing”, Association of Attorney-Mediators National Conference, Atlanta, GA – 2014; Lecturer, “Avoiding and Addressing Impasse from a Plaintiff’s Point of View”, 11th Annual Advanced Mediation and Advocacy Skills Institute, American Bar Association, Nashville, TN - 2013; Lecturer and Moderator, “Obstacles to Agreement and How To Overcome Them”, Practical Mediation, State Bar of Georgia Dispute Resolution Section and Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Macon, GA – 2012; Lecturer and Program Moderator, “What Exactly Is Barbeque Anyway? A Mock Mediation for the Real Estate Practitioner”, Atlanta Bar Association Dispute Resolution and Real Estate Sections, Atlanta, GA - 2012; Program Chair and Moderator, “Ten Things Lawyers Like/Hate about Mediators”, Atlanta Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, Atlanta, GA – 2012; Chair, 19th Annual Dispute Resolution Institute and Neutrals’ Conference, State Bar of Georgia Dispute Resolution Section and Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Atlanta, GA – 2012; Lecturer, “Ethical Issues for Parties and Mediators in Mediation”, Atlanta Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section, Atlanta, GA – 2011; Lecturer, “Dispute Resolution Procedures During and After Construction”, Construction Law for Architects, Engineers, and Contractors, Half-Moon Seminars, Inc., Atlanta, GA – 2010; Adjunct Lecturer, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Emory University School of Law 2010 - Present.
AAA/ABA/ACR Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators.
IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process.
CNA Attorney Errrors and Omissions Insurance $2,000,000 per occurrence, $2,000,000 multiple occurrences.