Partner Biographies

ALAN ALHADEFF

Services: Mediation, Training, Consulting

Profile: Alan Alhadeff has been a full-time mediator since 1985, with experience in case settlements involving commercial, construction, corporate, environmental, family law, health care, employment, personal injury, product liability, real property, and complex multiparty litigation. Prior to mediating, he practiced law in San Francisco and Seattle, in a wide variety of litigation settings.

Alan has mediated lawsuits throughout the United States. Drawing from this experience and his studies of how people negotiate, he has created a unique approach to mediation designed to shift the paradigm to problem-solving from debate.

University of Washington (B.A. 1967); Stanford University (J.D. 1970).

Training Experience: From 1985 to 1994, Alan Alhadeff served as Director of Mediation for United States Arbitration and Mediation, Inc. (USA&M), a national ADR service provider and its Seattle affiliate, WA&F. As such, he designed a curriculum for training attorney mediators throughout the U.S. Among the organizations for which he has recently designed mediation and negotiation training programs are the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA); University of Washington Law School Foundation; Mediation Consortium of Washington State; the American Bar Association; Iowa State Bar Association (ISBA); California Center for Judicial Education and Research (CJER); State Justice Institute; Judges Associations in the states of Illinois, Iowa, and California; Bar Association of San Francisco; Dallas Bar Association; and Office of Washington State Attorney General.

Mr. Alhadeff frequently speaks at seminars for trade associations and professional organizations, and has presented mediation programs at national and regional conferences for groups such as the Associated General Contractors (AGC), American Bar Association (ABA), American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA), Defense Research Institute, Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR)—formerly the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, and the International Academy of Mediators (IAM).

Teaching Positions: Adjunct Professor: University of Washington School of Law, 1991-1993; Seattle University School of Law, 1983-1988, 1997. Developed courses in negotiation, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and Mediation.

Licenses and Certification: Washington State Bar and State Bar of California [wording coming about certified as Rule 39.1 federal court mediator]

Publications: “What is Mediation?” The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1993, revised 2nd ed., 1998; “Resolution at the Highest Level,” Washington Law & Politics, February, 1998; “What Mediators Say About Mediation,” Washington Journal, April, 1994; “How to Use Mediation to Settle Civil Cases,” Dispute Resolution Deskbook, Washington State Bar Association, 1989

Community Service: Served on the Board of Directors of several community organizations, including Anti-Defamation League; Juvenile Diabetes Foundation-NW Chapter; CityStage Theater; Chairperson of Human Rights Committee for the Goodwill Games; Seattle Bio-Medical Research Institute