RussellADR
  • Home
  • Expertise
  • Services
  • CV
  • Contact
  • Blog

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, National Roster of Commercial Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association.
  • Certified arbitrator of the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS-U.S.).
  • Member, roster of approved arbitrators of the Association of Insurance & Reinsurance Runoff Companies (AIRROC).
  • Certified arbitrator and mediator, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  •  Qualified arbitrator of the dispute resolution section of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
  • American Bar Association. Member, Sections of Dispute Resolution, Litigation and Business Law.
  • American Law Institute (Life Member). Member, ALI consultative groups on Restatement of the U.S Law of International Commercial Arbitration; Principles of the Law of Liability Insurance; Complex Litigation Project; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Restatement (Third) Torts; Federal Judicial Code Revision Project.
  • Fellow, Salzburg (Austria) Seminar on American Studies, session on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
  • Adjunct Professor, Advanced Tort Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
  • Selected for listing in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, 2012, 2013.
  • Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania (1973) and the District of Columbia (1980 - currently inactive), and before U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, District of Columbia, and Federal Circuits; U.S. Court of Federal Claims; U.S. Tax Court.

Professional Background

2013 / Founder and principal of RussellADR.
1999–2013 / Member of Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C., Philadelphia, PA (retired, 2013).
1997–1999 / Of counsel to Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young, P.C., Philadelphia, PA.
1990–1997 / Partner in Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Washington, DC.
1974–1990 / Associate (1974-1980) and partner (1980-1990) in Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, Washington, DC and Philadelphia.
1973–1974 / Law clerk to the Honorable Arlin M. Adams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Education

 University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D. (magna cum laude) 1973. Order of the    Coif. Associate Editor, Vol. 120, University of Pennsylvania Law Review. G. Newton Greene Memorial Prize in Torts.

Dartmouth College, A.B. (magna cum laude) 1970. Phi Beta Kappa. Rufus Choate Scholar. Degree awarded with High Distinction in Philosophy. 
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.