BIOGRAPHY

As a full-time dispute resolution professional since 1989, Eric has worked in 42 states and eight countries as a mediator, arbitrator, meeting facilitator, speaker, and trainer specializing in complex, multi-party, high-stakes disputes. He is listed in "Best Lawyers in America" for Alternative Dispute Resolution, is an inducted Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, and was named an “Entertainment Industry Power Mediator” by Hollywood Reporter Esquire.

Eric has mediated and arbitrated many high-profile matters including Massachusetts electric industry restructuring principles, a 200-town agreement on Clean Air Act funding in Massachusetts, relocation of the Boston waterfront music Pavilion, an athletic conference expulsion over bowl game participation, a 60,000-acre New York Indian land claim, a 28-municipality dispute with a New England power plant operator, and the dispute preventing Cleveland's Jacobs Field from being built. He also chaired the three-member U.S. Copyright Office panel, which arbitrated the first royalty rates for internet music streaming.

Eric has also chaired or presided at many complex meetings. These include MA Coastal Zone Management planning, a national Small Business Administration/ USEPA meeting on environmental assistance for small businesses, consensus building among MA school committees and special education providers, an EPA/ DOJ meeting on environmental ADR, and day-long Indian tribal counsel meetings.

In Concord—where Eric and his wife Laurie have lived more than 30 years and where their sons both attended Alcott School, CMS and CCHS—he has been involved in a diverse range of activities. He:

• chaired the First Parish governing board and served on many committees there

• was one of the founders of the Jericho Road Project, a non-profit organization through which Concord residents have provided nearly $1 million in professional services to Lowell groups which serve low-income people,

• served on the advisory board to the Concord Housing Foundation,

• served with the Emerson Umbrella advisory Think Tank,

• participated in a town delegation to Concord’s sister town of Nanae, Japan, and

• served on the board of The Greeley Foundation, which made grants and built bridges between Concord, Boston and Lowell.

Other memberships and activities have included:

• American Bar Association Sections on Dispute Resolution and International Law, Association for Conflict Resolution; FDIC, USEPA Superfund Pilot Program, and Library of Congress Copyright Arbitration Royalty panels
  
  
• Massachusetts Bar Foundation, Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Board, and Jericho Road Project Board, Boston Debate League Advisory Board.
  
  
• Lecturer on ADR at national/international forums: ABA, American Corporate Counsel Association, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, International Bar Association, World Economic Forum Mid-East North African Qatar Summit, Nigerian International Insurance Summit keynote, and in Canada, Hong Kong, Japan; published in ABA Dispute Resolution magazine

Background and Education

• Massachusetts Undersecretary, Economic Affairs; Assistant Secretary, Environmental Affairs

• Adjunct Professor, Environmental Law, Boston University Law School;
  taught “Law and Education” course at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

• Executive Director, Union of Concerned Scientists

• Seven-year federal litigation legal practice

• J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School

• M.Sc., London School of Economics

• A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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