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IMI Certified Mediator
AAA - American Arbitration Association
Mediation Profile

Partner, Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, L.L.P. and predecessors, Fort Worth, Texas (1986-present); Executive Vice President, Dabney Corporation, President, Dabney Capital Co., Dallas, Texas 1984-86; Vice President/Secretary/General Counsel, LaJet, Inc., 1978-84; Partner, Rhodes, Doscher, Chalk & Heatherly, 1973-78.

Mediated disputes in all the areas listed in "Main Mediation Practice Areas"; certified as Mediator (1992) and Advanced Mediator (1995) by Dispute Resolution Services of Tarrant County (Texas), Inc.; contract mediator for EEOC (Dallas, Texas Region) (2000-2001); "TMCA Credentialed Advanced" by Texas Mediator Credentialing Association (2007-2008; 2008-2009); Member, AAA Panel of Mediators since 1997; Chair, ADR Section, State Bar of Texas (2009-10).

Facilitative in most mediations; evaluative where the parties and circumstances suggest it. Always respectful and observant of the parties' rights of self-determination and the voluntary nature of mediation.

Commercial and Business (Domestic and International); Employment; Healthcare; Oil and Gas; Eminent Domain; Insurance; Intellectual Property; Transportation; Mining; Franchising; Joint Ventures; Partnerships; Distribution; Shareholder Disputes.

$350.00 per hour. Pre-mediation deposits required (eight-hour minimum).

Texas Bar Association ( Chair, ADR Section); District of Columbia Bar Association; American Bar Association; Federal Bar Association; American Health Lawyers Association; Tarrant County (Texas) Bar Association (ADR Section Chair 2002-2003; President 2009-10); “TMCA Credentialed Advanced” by Texas Mediator Credentialing Association (2007-2008, 2008-2009); Association of Attorney Mediators; The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator); Member, London Court of International Arbitration; Texas Association of Mediators; Tarrant County Association of Mediators; Fellow and Maintaining Member, College of State Bar of Texas; American Bar Foundation (Fellow); Texas Bar Foundation (Sustaining Life Fellow); Tarrant County Bar Foundation (Sustaining Charter Fellow); Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Transnational Arbitration, The Center for American and International Law (Southwestern Legal Foundation), Dallas, Texas; Member, American Law Institute.

Jay Rutherford, Jackson Walker, LLP, 301 Commerce Street, Suite 2400, Fort Worth, Texas 76102-4124.817-334-7246. Allen H. Pennington, Jr., Pennington & Hill, 777 Taylor Street, Suite 890, Fort Worth, Texas 76102-4907. 817-332-5055. Stuart B. Lumpkins, Jr., McDonald Sanders, P.C., 777 Main Street, Suite 1300, Fort Worth, Texas 76102-5385. 817-336-8651. Jim L. Flegle, Loewinsohn Flegle, 12377 Merit Drive, Suite 900, Dallas, Texas 75251-1301. 214-572-1700. Hugh E. Hackney, Greenberg Trauig, 2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 5200, Dallas, Texas 75201. 972-665-3600.

Training and Education

“Advanced Techniques for Credentialed Mediators,” Texas Mediator Credentialing Association, Austin, Texas (11/15/08); “Advanced Commercial Mediation Institute,” AAA/Association of Conflict Resolution, Austin, Texas (09/25-26/08); “Advanced Attorney-Mediator Training - Finer Points,” Association of Attorney-Mediators, Austin, Texas (09/12/08); “ADR Texas Style - 20th Anniversary and Beyond,” State Bar ADR Section Seminar, Dallas, Texas (10/15/07); “Advanced Mediation,” Pepperdine U. Law School and Vermont Law School, Woodstock,Vermont, 10/4-6/07; “Advanced Attorney-Mediator Training - Mediator’s Tips, Tools and Techniques,” Assn of Attorney-Mediators, Santa Fe, NM (03/23-24/07); AAA Neutrals Conference, Miami, 03/24-25/06; “Advanced Case Management Issues,” ICDR, 03/03/05; “AAA Neutrals Conference (ACE3 and 4), Palm Springs, 03/04-05/05; “Neutrals Conference (Mediating Complex Cases),” AAA, San Antonio, Texas, 3/5-6/04; “ADR Seminar,” State Bar of Texas ADR Section, Dallas, Texas, 10/9-10/03; “Mediation Track Courses,” ABA-ADR Section Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 3/20-22/03; “Developments in International ADR,” AAA, Dallas, Texas, 11/05/02; “Advanced Mediation Techniques,” AHLA Seminar, Scottsdale, Arizona, 02/07-08/02; AAA Mediator Conference (Employment), Denver, Colorado, 3/8-10/2000; Effective Employment Conflict Management, AAA, Dallas, Texas 2/2000; Certified International Commercial Mediator by International Centers for Arbitration, Houston, 5/94; Dispute Resolution Services of Tarrant County (Texas) Mediator Training (40 hours), 10/92.

"New Opportunities in ADR," State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting and Seminar (June 25, 2009); "The Mediator as Conflict Manager," AAM Seminar, Fort Worth, Texas (April 24, 2009).

Publications

"Arbitration Empirical Studies," Alternative Resolutions (Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 2009), State Bar of Texas ADR Section Newsletter; "Hall Street Applied to Texas General Arbitration ACt in Quinn v. NAFTA Traders, Inc.," Alternative Resolutions (Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 2009); “The Use of Conflict Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution for Claims Adjusters,” Handling Tough Nonsubscriber Claims Seminar, Dallas, Texas, October 11, 2001.

Compliance

IMI Code of Professional Conduct; AAA/ABA/ACR Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators

IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process

Chicago Fire Insurance - US$2 million; Mediator Insurance to the Association of Attorney Mediators for its members' mediations that take place within the USA, its territories or possessions, or Canada (Complete Equity Markets, Inc., Lloyd's, London Correspondents) - US$250,000 per claim and US$2 million aggregate.

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John Allen Chalk Sr.
972-490-9008
United States
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