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IMI Certified Mediator
United States
English
AAA - American Arbitration Association
Mediation Profile

Partner, Ittig & Ittig, P.C.

Judith Ittig, an attorney in the private practice of law, is an experienced arbitrator and mediator. She frequently serves on large, complex cases and is on the AAA’s Master Mediator Panel, the AAA's Mega-Project Arbitration Panel, the AAA’s national commercial panel of arbitrators and mediators, the ICDR’s international panel of arbitrators and mediators and CPR’s panel of arbitrators and mediators. She is a Chartered Arbitrator/Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Her experience includes serving as arbitrator or mediator on cases involving the acquisition of businesses, franchising, oil-field services, and the construction of power plants, chemical plants and process piping, pharmaceutical plants, hospitals, office buildings, civil works, marine facilities, churches, shopping centers, high-rise residential, hotels, restaurant chains and schools.

Mrs. Ittig has a concentration in construction contract law. As an advocate, Mrs. Ittig has participated in national and international arbitrations and court actions throughout the United States and in other countries. She has written manuals on contract law and authored articles on dispute resolution. She has negotiated and drafted contracts for industrial projects, including the principal contract documents for national manufacturers and design/build contractors. She has also resolved numerous contract disputes between contractors and specialty subcontractors, and represented parties in lawsuits over major commercial and industrial projects and civil works, including marine construction and road building. 

Mrs. Ittig is a Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers and a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. She is listed in the current editions of Washington, DC SuperLawyers, The Best Lawyers in America (Alternative Dispute Resolution and Construction Law Specialties), and the International Who's Who of Commercial Mediation Lawyers.

Assisted parties as a mediator in reaching settlements in every category of dispute that arises in construction. Has also mediated a large number of commercial disputes, such as those involving buy/sell agreements, joint ventures, franchising, and business organization problems. 

Disputes have involved private business and public entities. The amounts in controversy have ranged to multi-millions of dollars. Generally, each party demanded monetary compensation. Mediated disputes have involved power plants, hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, office buildings, highways, condominiums, and residences. 

In construction mediation, most of the issues have dealt with payment and incomplete or defective work. Other issues included claims for delay, loss of productivity, acceleration, lost profit, changed conditions, and other changes in the scope of work. In non-construction business disputes, the issues were generally about valuation of the business and damage claims for breach of the parties' commercial contract.

Evaluative; Facilitative I consider it an important part of the mediator's role to assist each party in putting its best case forward. With this approach, each party is able to hear the arguments that it will likely face in court or arbitration if the dispute is not settled. They will also know that the other side has been presented with the full force of their position, undiluted by restrictions that are placed on testimony in an adversarial proceeding. I expect the parties to listen avidly to one another and to take an active part in fashioning a solution that will be mutually agreeable. I believe in the individuality of every dispute, so I do not expect all mediations to be the same. I want to strike the path that is most advantageous to the full discussion and resolution of the particular circumstances of each case. Attorneys and parties have shown their confidence in my philosophy and approach by inviting me to serve as mediator on multiple occasions for them and by recommending me to others.

Mediation of commercial disputes, with an emphasis on construction.

$575 per hour

$250 per hour and expenses for travel outside of the Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area.

No cancellation fee.

Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers; Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators; Chartered Arbitrator, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Training and Education

AAA Advanced Construction Industry Mediator Training, 1998; AAA Advanced Mediation Skills Training, 1995; AAA Mediation Training, 1993.

Presenter, The Alchemy of Mediation, Lex Infinitum, V M Salgaocar College of Law, Goa, India (2017); Panel Member, Mediation Musings, Goa Chamber of Commerce, Goa, India (2017);
Presenter, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Skills, Construction Institute, Hartford, CT (2016); Presenter, Using Effective Dispute Resolution Strategies in Your Practice, DC Bar, Washington, DC (2015); Co-Presenter, Essential Mediator Skills for the New Mediator, 24 hours of training for the American Arbitration Association, Washington, DC (2012); Organizer and Moderator, A Fresh Look at ADR for International Energy Construction Projects, CPR and The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Washington, DC (2011); When the Neutral Serves as Both Mediator and Arbitrator and Disqualification of Counsel in Arbitration, 2011 Mid-Winter Meeting, ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, New York, NY; Moderator, Planning Resolution Strategies, AAA Construction Conference, Washington, DC (2010); Faculty, The Big Debate - Hybrid Forms of Dispute Resolution, Advanced Commercial Mediation Institute, 2008; Presenter, AAA Webinar, Ensuring That Your Clients' Interests Are Addressed in Mediation, 2008; Arbitration and Mediation in Construction Cases, Lexis-Nexis Mealey’s Construction Litigation Conference, 2008; AAA Construction Mediation Conference: What You Can't Not Know, 2007; Faculty, The Lawyer Problem - Determining the Decision-Makers, Getting Beyond Impasse, Advanced Commercial Mediation Institute, sponsored by the Association for Conflict Resolution, The Harvard University and the American Arbitration Association, 2006; Plenary Speaker, A Mediator’s Inside View, ABA Forum on Construction, 2006; Presenter, AAA Mediator Conference, 2001, 2000; Presenter, AAA Mediator Retreat, 2000; Presenter, AAA, ADR for Business Solutions Conference: Mediating Construction Disputes: On Budget, On Schedule, and On Target, 1999; Faculty, AAA Construction Mediator Training, 1998

Publications

Contributor, AAA Handbook on Mediation, 2010 ed.; "Entrances and Exits: Outside the Mediation," Dispute Resolution Journal (July 2007)

Compliance

AAA/ABA/ACR Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators

IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process

CNA Professional Liability Policy

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Judith Ittig
Partner
Ittig & Ittig, P.C.
011-202-232-1334
United States
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