Richard Chernick, Esq.

Los Angeles

Arbitration, Business/Commercial, Construction, Construction Defect, Employment, Engineering and Construction, Entertainment and Sports, Federal, Governmental/Public Agency, Health Care, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International, Personal Injury/Torts, Real Property, Surety

Richard Chernick is Vice President and Managing Director of the Arbitration Practice at JAMS. He is a nationally recognized expert in the resolution of complex and multi-party matters. He has conducted hundreds of large and complex arbitrations and mediations, employing various rules and before major administering institutions, both domestic and international.

Since 1994, Mr. Chernick has served as a mediator and arbitrator of complex disputes in areas including commercial, real property, employment, entertainment, intellectual property, pharmaceuticals technology, construction, and public law matters. He also frequently serves as chair of tripartite panels of arbitrators or as party-appointed arbitrator.

He is the author or co-author of leading texts on ADR, employment ADR, and international arbitration and mediation; he is also a frequent trainer and lecturer on arbitration and mediation topics. Mr. Chernick is a former chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association and the founding president of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. He served as the ABA's Advisor to the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the arbitration panels of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Beijing Arbitration Commission, the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Lausanne), the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board and the Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association.

He is a lecturer in Law at USC Gould School of Law where he teaches arbitration and chairs the Judith O. Hollinger ADR Program Advisory Board and is the immediate past chair of the USC Law School Board of Councilors.

rjoseph@jamsadr.com

213-253-9704

www.jamsadr.com/chernick