FIND A MEDIATOR
Select from the mediators listed below and forward your selection to the Mediation Service Administrator. Further mediation procedures are outlined here.
Michael Alkaraki
Michael Alkaraki is a Partner and Trial Lawyer at Leahy Hoste Alkaraki, where he represents plaintiffs in cases of catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability and wrongful death. He...
Mr. Robert Berliner Jr.
Mr. Berliner is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and served in the US Navy as an officer on a nuclear submarine. He began practicing law with...
Ashly Boesche
Ashly Boesche is a partner at Pattishall, McAuliffe with over 15 years of experience in trademark, trade dress, copyright, and false advertising disputes. She has litigated countless matters in federal...
Fitzgerald Bramwell
Mr. Bramwell is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin School of Law in Madison, Wisconsin, Columbia University in the City of New York, and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts....
Mrs. Colleen Breems
I have been practicing family law in Illinois for my entire legal career, and I am extremely passionate in assisting families achieve the best outcomes that are tailored to their...
Thomas P. Burke
For the past 15+ years, my practice has focused on trucking and transportation litigation. I have been Illinois counsel for a major national trucking company for about 25 years, and...
Alejandro Caffarelli
Mr. Caffarelli has been practicing labor and employment law exclusively for over 25 years, is the former President of the Illinois chapter of the National Employment Lawyers’ Association, and currently...
Edward Casmere
Edward Casmere has been negotiating, litigating, and trying cases in complex commercial litigation, product liability, mass/toxic tort, and environmental litigation for approximately 20 years across the United States. He has...
Honorable Jeffrey Conen
I joined Hansen Reynolds LLC in 2020 after a 23-year career as a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge, in which I presided over 400 jury trials in both civil and criminal...
William F. Conlon
William F. Conlon is a retired partner of Sidley Austin LLP. Immediately after graduating from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a member of the University...
Daniel Cotter
I am a lawyer who has practiced in both the inhouse setting and in private practice, with a broad background and experience in a variety of areas, including IT and...
Mr William Cunningham
I have practiced as a Trial Lawyer for 48 years. In That time I have tried over 125 cases to verdict most of which were complex cases involving Professional Negligence...
Katheryn M. Dutenhaver
Professor Katheryn M. Dutenhaver has been teaching at DePaul College of Law since1974 and has served as Associate Dean and Acting Dean. Her courses have been primarily in the areas...
Denny Esford
Former engineer, author and manager in the manufacturing sector from 1981-2003. Certified arbitrator since 2013, commercial litigator in state and federal court since 2004 in contract, business torts, trade secrets,...
Nina Fain
Having been among the first African Americans and women to become a partner in major law firms in Chicago, Nina Fain is a lawyer with a unique background. Fain has...
Mr. Paul Festenstein
As a practicing attorney for both defense and plaintiffs' cases over forty years, I have developed a reputation in the industry as an attorney who is a straight shooter and...
Robert Fioretti
Bob Fioretti is a seasoned litigator & certified mediator bringing his clients a diverse range of legal experience. He has handled cases in complex litigation & governmental law, many of...
Hon. Jack Fleming (Ret.)
The Honorable John Fleming is a retired Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. A graduate of DePaul College of Law, Judge Fleming practiced civil, criminal and administrative...
LAUREN FREEMAN
Ms. Freeman has practiced law for over 34 years. She retired from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in 2017 after a distinguished 30-year career as a prosecutor in which...
Teresa F. Frisbie
Teresa Frisbie has been involved in alternative dispute resolution for more than two decades. Named the 2018 Mediator of the Year by the Association for Conflict Resolution, Chicago, and both...
Susan Frischer
I'm a listener. I believe a mediator's job is to help opposing sides of a matter hear each other. The only way to do that is not only to listen...
Brian Gold
Brian Gold began his mediation practice after 35 years of private practice, with the last 27 years as a partner with Sidley Austin LLP. He recently resumed practicing law as...
Lawrence Gosewisch
I have practiced law in Illinois for over 37 years with a concentration on complex commercial litigation, including claims relating to: breach of fiduciary duty against directors and officers on...
William Gotfryd
I believe in a thorough, open, but guided mediation process. I believe in constant engagement on the issues in the dispute, but also the impediments to the parties resolving their...
Louise Gross
As an attorney for a federal government agency, I have been actively involved in conflict resolution for more than forty years. For the past 10 of those years, I have...
Ann Hagerty
My 25+year legal career has encompassed a broad range of roles in both the public and private legal sectors. I worked for 6 years as a Cook County Assistant State's...
Hon. Russ W. Hartigan
I have been a practicing plaintiff and defense attorney focusing on civil cases in Cook County and the collar counties for many years. Throughout my career I have settled many...
Eugene Hollander
I have extensive experience in a wide variety of civil litigation. I have handled many cases in the law division and chancery division of the Circuit Court of Cook County....
Honorable John Hynes (Ret.)
The Honorable John Hynes is a retired Judge on the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Kent College of Law....
Norman Jeddeloh
Norm is a senior litigator rated AV Premier Judicial Edition by Martindale Hubble. He has served as an advocate in many mediations associated with litigated matters, especially in the areas...
Jim Kopecky
My experience as a lawyer and as an Administrative Hearing Officer have taught me the importance of listening to the wants and needs of parties and that finding a way...
Marcia Kramer
With a background in public policy, not litigation, my approach to mediation is to help parties find a solution to conflict that best serves all parties, within the parameters of...
Matthew P. Lane Esq.
Matt Lane is a full-time mediator who has earned a reputation for helping parties to settle even the most complex and difficult cases.
Mr. Lane ensures that all parties are genuinely...
Mr. David P Leibowitz
My 47 years of practice has involved representation of banks in secured transactions and litigation, real estate transactions from residential to construction to commercial leasing to office and industrial purchase...
Ashanti Madlock Henderson
Ashanti Madlock Henderson is the principal of Evanston Mediation Center and Madlock Henderson LLC. She is an experienced litigator and certified mediator who practices in Cook and the surrounding counties....
Travis Maisel
Over the years I have represented both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury cases, insurance coverage cases, subrogation cases and commercial law cases. I have tried over 140 civil jury...
Mr. Mitchell Marinello
I am a practicing commercial litigator, arbitrator and mediator. Most of my litigation work is in the field of commercial litigation, real estate litigation, ownership disputes, business divorces, contract disputes,...
Mr. William F. Marutzky
My practice areas cover business, estate planning, tax planning and tax controversy as both an attorney and as a C.P.A....
Ms Heidi Massa
Heidi Massa's practice involves high-stakes business disputes in many substantive areas, including contract and commercial matters; business divorce; and design and construction. She has represented clients in state and federal...
Robert Minetz
I have tried jury and non-jury cases and the related appeals for plaintiffs and defendants since 1973 in state and federal courts.
I have represented clients in fraud, copyright, will...
Rachel Moore
I understand the human emotion behind legal and financial disputes. Mediation allows for creative resolutions and the ability for both sides to walk away satisfied. Serving as a facilitative mediator,...
Constance Moylan
Ms. Moylan participated in the Mediation/Arbitration Clinic in law school and found the process very rewarding. Ms. Moylan partook of a 40 hour training at the Chicago Conflict Resolution Center....
Arthur Murphy
I have practiced law in Illinois since 1979. My first job was at a personal injury defense firm, where I specialized in insurance defense litigation. I tried numerous cases to...
Alan Nicgorski
I am attorney with over 20 years of experience litigating complex business disputes. I have also served as an arbitrator in several commercial disputes. I believe my skills, experience and...
Mr. Peter Ordower
I have practiced law since 1980, concentrating in commercial litigation in state and federal courts, appellate courts, administrative agencies and regulatory bodies. Many of my cases have involved contract disputes...
Jonah Orlofsky
After graduating from Northwestern School of Law in 1980, I clerked for the Honorable Milton I. Shadur, then worked for the litigation boutique Plotkin & Jacobs (later Plotkin, Jacobs &...
Christina Papavasiliou
Since her admission to the Illinois Bar in 2004, Ms. Papavasiliou has participated in the mediation of dozens of cases, and has accrued hundreds of hours of trial experience. She...
Brad Pawlowski
I have been a mediator since 1997. My practice as a litigator focuses on Family Law and commercial and real estate litigation. I use my mediator skills to help my...
Hon. Edmund Ponce de Leon (Ret.)
As a Cook County Circuit Court Judge, and private, Hon. Edmund Ponce de León (Ret.) has mediated and settled some 500+ cases. He has 37+ years of experience in family...
Thomas K. Prindable
Thomas K. Prindable is the managing partner of the Chicago personal injury law firm of Cogan & Power, P.C. In that role, he serves that the firm’s primary point of...
Ashley Rafael
Ashley Rafael has been General Counsel to Midway Moving & Storage, Inc. since 1995, where she practices commercial litigation as well as negotiates contracts with corporate clients and government agencies...
Mr. Tobin Richter
I enjoy meeting with and helping parties resolve their disputes. Over forty-five years experience in litigation teaches that a more efficient solution via mediation not only saves time and money,...
Kenneth Ross
I began my career in the legal arena in 1982 and spent twenty years at several major law firms, where I developed aviation related practice groups and was co-chairman of...
Mr. Gerald Saltarelli
I began practicing in 1973 with Winston & Strawn as an associate and then partner. In 1981, I became a founding partner of Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP. I...
John C. Sciaccotta
John C. Sciaccotta has nearly 35 years of trial and litigation experience advocating for clients in complex civil litigation, arbitration, mediation and business counseling matters with a special emphasis on...
Judith Sherwin
I have been a lawyer for forty plus years during which I have litigated complex business and health care matters in the state and Federal Courts. I have also worked...
Mr. Joseph Spingola
I’ve spent a very challenging and rewarding fifty years practicing law. In that time, I’ve tried and participated in thousands of cases in various areas of law both in court...
Alon Stein
Alon Stein concentrates his practice in commercial and civil litigation. Alon has litigated matters all the way to the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and Indiana, as well as the Appellate...
Marta Stein
For 30 years, Ms. Stein was a trial attorney handling high-stakes complex commercial litigation matters, most recently as an equity partner at the international law firm McGuireWoods LLP. Ms. Stein...
Anastasia Svigos
Admitted to the IL Bar in 1992, Anastasia Svigos has been solely devoted to alternative dispute resolution since 2010. With 400+ mediated cases, she’s been awarded NAFCM 2020 Outstanding Volunteer...
Howard Teplinsky
Howard L. Teplinsky is Chairman of Levin Ginsburg’s litigation practice. Howard has been a trial lawyer for over 30 years and represents and counsels Fortune 500 companies as well as...
Renu Thamman
I have worked in the labor and employment field since graduating law school in 1997 and have dedicated my career to this complex area of law. I have worked in...
Rachael Toft
I am an experienced trial attorney with more than 15 years in private practice focusing on family law, divorce, child custody, and paternity. Family law can be emotionally and financially...
Angel M. Traub
Angel M. Traub is a family and estates attorney and principal owner of the all-female law firm of A. Traub & Associates, founded in 2001, with offices located in Lombard,...
Stephen Tyma
Thirty-five years of practice in litigation in a range from complex commercial litigation to small claims, in a wide variety of areas of law, from professional liability (including attorneys and...
T. Nicholas Tyszka
Mr. Tyszka concentrates his legal practice primarily on real estate and business matters.
EDUCATION
Mr. Tyszka earned his undergraduate and graduate business degree from the University of Notre Dame. Both of Mr....
Dimitrie Umbrarescu
I have been a practicing attorney since 2003. A good part of my practice has been in family law and real estate law. In June 2019, I became a volunteer...
Ms Lesley Wallerstein
Lesley Wallerstein is a graduate of MIT and a former patent examiner. For several years, she examined international patent applications in biomechanical engineering devices, pharmaceuticals, alternative energy technologies, cutting edge...
Alan S. Wernick
Alan S. Wernick is an experienced business transactions attorney, advocate and arbitrator/mediator handling legal matters for businesses in the areas of information technology, privacy/cybersecurity and intellectual property law.
For more than...
Ms. Lisa Wiemken
With North Divorce Shore Divorce Mediations & Family Law, attorney Lisa Wiemken focuses on divorce mediation, uncontested divorce, and collaborative divorce as the practical alternatives to divorce litigation.
Lisa earned...
Michael A. Zuckerman
Michael A. Zuckerman, Esq. is an experienced lawyer, mediator and arbitrator who has handled hundreds of matters. A four-time federal law clerk, Mr. Zuckerman is also a former law professor...
