Arbitration Experience: John has been an American Arbitration Association ("AAA") panelist since the early nineties serving on its Commercial Large Complex Case and Securities panels; participated in hearings lasting several days to several weeks; over the last five years has handled cases including:

•  served as neutral chairman on panel in multimillion dollar dispute involving 80+ parties growing out of the sale of series of interrelated limited partnership interests in high tech ventures which turned on issues of federal and state securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty, and complex accounting claims;
• panelist on three person panel involving claims between former owners and management team under a leveraged buy-out and redemption agreement concerning issues of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, officer and director liability and accounting claims;
• sole arbitrator in case involving claims of breach of contract and FDA regulations in the manufacturing of oncology drugs by pharmaceutical firm;
• panelist on three person panel to determine "fair value" of dissenting minority interest in bank holding company resulting from "squeeze out" and involving technical issues of appraisal methodology (see attorney evaluation above, to the left)

• sole arbitrator in claims involving breach of contract, fiduciary duty, and accounting between physicians under limited partnership agreement;

• chair of panel to determine breach of covenant not to compete between physician and radiology group;

• panelist in to determine claims of fraud, breach of contract, professional negligence, and conspiracy in connection with "abusive" tax shelters; and,

• extensive additional experience involving negotiable instruments, investment securities, including initial public offerings, lending agreements, guaranties, foreclosures, real estate, oil and gas operations and other contract and partnership disputes, accounting fraud, and customer and investment manager disputes as well as construction and products liability claims

      John additionally sits on the panels of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD),  the National Arbitration Forum (NAF), and Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), and the American Health Lawyer's Association (AHLA) where he hears a broad variety of financial and commercially-oriented cases.  

Arbitration Training: AAA Neutrals Conference, San Antonio, 3/04, AAA Arbitrator II Workshop: Advanced Case Management, Houston, 8/02; National Association of Securities Dealers, Arbitrator Certification Training, Houston, 7/99; AAA Commercial Arbitrator Training, Houston, 2/99; AAA Securities Arbitration Training, San Antonio, 7/95; various other ADR training

revised 4/07