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Ms. Weintraub is a mediator and arbitrator for AAA, CPR and the Better Business Bureau. She is the founder of ACCORD, LLC, offering dispute resolution, facilitation and conflict prevention services, and Weintraub Legal Services, providing business law services. Ms. Weintraub was previously employed as in house counsel and then in senior management at Amtrak. With her extensive legal background, business experience, dispute resolution skills and entrepreneurial mindset, Ms. Weintraub is a highly effective mediator of business disputes.
ADR Background: Ms Weintraub serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the AAA's Commercial Panel and Large Complex Case Panel. She was recently selected as a distinguished neutral for CPR's Pennsylvania Panel and Franchise Panel. She also arbitrates and mediates for the Better Business Bureau.
Legal and Business Background: Ms. Weintraub has over 25 years' legal experience primarily in business law. She has negotiated complex commercial transactions, including several $100 million plus acquisitions of equipment with international manufacturers, leveraged lease financings, and multi-million dollar long term outsourcing contracts. Her clients include high technology companies, engineering firms, telecomm consultants, insurance brokers, IT consultants, training providers, educational consultants, retail stores, healthcare providers, medical billing firms, radio and TV show producers, software developers, construction contractors, consulting companies, service providers, marketing firms, manufacturers and accountants. She has extensive experience representing clients in the railroad and airline industries. As General Manager at Amtrak, she managed a department of 40 engineers, and was responsible for engineering design, quality assurance, project management, testing and acceptance of rail equipment, warranty management, and maintenance management systems.
Mediations handled by Ms. Weintraub have included disputes involving accounting firm malpractice and default issues, hospitals and healthcare service providers, gas pipelines, warranty matters, employment (age discrimination, disability discrimination, wrongful termination), distribution agreements, attorney/client fee disputes, and conflicts among multiple business partners. Ms. Weintraub has also mediated several small claims matters for courts, agencies and individuals, including neighborhood disputes, divorce settlement agreement, landlord/tenant, and personal injury claims.
I view my role as mediator as encompassing the following functions: (1) ensuring that each party has the opportunity to present its case and that each party understands the position and needs of the other party(ies), (2) facilitating the discussion, (3) skillfully probing the parties' positions and uncovering their underlying interests and needs, (4) helping the parties develop alternative resolutions to meet their needs, (5) managing the different personalities and emotions in the meetings, and (6) assisting the parties to overcome impasse including, where needed, and where the parties desire, providing an impartial assessment of each party’s position, in order to help the parties arrive at a settlement. My legal expertise, dispute resolution experiences and training, and business acumen from my years as a business executive and being an entrepreneur enable me to be highly effective in helping businesses resolve their disputes.
• Commercial contracts • Business disputes • General Corporate • Technology • Financial services • Agency and distribution contracts • Partnership disputes • Strategic alliances, joint ventures, collaboration agreements • Franchise agreements • Employment disputes
Hourly Rate: $400 Per Hour
Hourly rate charged for all time associated with the engagement including administrative & study time. Travel time billed at half of hourly rate. Expenses incurred in connection with the engagement billed at cost. Postpone/cancel Fee: within 72 hours of mediation, 4 hours charged, plus applicable travel cancellation fees & expenses.
AAA Commercial Panel, Large Complex Case Panel and Panel of mediators; distinguished neutral for International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR); American Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Section; Business Law Section); Pennsylvania Bar Association; Chester County Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar Association; Maryland Bar Association; National Association of Women Business Owners (Past Board Member, Vice President and Education Chair); Delaware Valley ATHENA PowerLink Program (Governing Body).
Brett A. Datto, Esquire
Weir & Partners LLP
1339 Chestnut Street
Suite 500
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-241-7723 (p)
215-665-8464 (f)
bdatto@weirpartners.com
C. Warren Trainor
Ehmann, Van Denbergh & Trainor, PC
Suite 220
1500 JFK Blvd.
Two Penn Center
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Tel: 215-851-1660
Fax: 215-851-9820
wtrainor@evt.net
Ms. Merle Holman
CEO
Group Dynamics In Focus
555 City Line Avenue
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
Tel: (610) 668-8535 x11
Fax: (610) 668-2072
mholman@groupdynamics.com
Alternative Dispute Resolution Training: Breaking Impasse in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2009, AAA Pro Se: Managing Cases Involving Self-Represented Parties (ACE002), 2008; AAA Chairing an Arbitration Panel: Managing Procedures, Process & Dynamics (ACE005), 2007; AAA Dealing With Delay Tactics in Arbitration (ACE004), 2006; Attended AAA Neutrals Conference, 2005; AAA Dealing with Delay Tactics in Arbitration (ACE004), 2005; Good Shepherd Mediation Center, Advanced Training - Mediation With Heart in Mind: Understanding Emotion in Conflict Management, 2005; AAA Arbitration Awards: Safeguarding, Deciding & Writing Awards (ACE001), 2004; AAA Commercial Arbitrator II Training: Advanced Case Management Issues, 2003; AAA Arbitrator I Training-Fundamentals of the Arbitration Process, 2002; American Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Conference Mediation Workshops, 2001; Better Business Bureau, Arbitration Training, 2001; DC Bar, Arbitration Training, 1999; Center for Dispute Settlement, Mediation Training, 1998; various other ADR training.
Publications and Speaking Engagements Speaker and author, "Secrets to Successful Business Partnering," NAWBO, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, March 2003; "We've Got to Stop Meeting Like This: Leading Effective Meetings," SCTE Chapter Leadership Conference, March 2002; "Stepping into the Fray: Mediating a Client's Dispute," CPA ADMINISTRATOR'S AND MANAGER'S REPORT, November 2001; "Going Beyond Early Dispute Resolution: Conflict Prevention," ADR REPORT, September 2001; "Tips On Workplace Conflict Management Systems," Managing Conflict and Removing Barriers to Collaborative Decision Making Conference, Washington, DC, June 2001; numerous lectures, seminars, and speaking engagements on ADR to Chambers of Commerce, Bar Associations, and other groups.
IMI Code of Professional Conduct; AAA/ABA/ACR Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators
IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process
Professional Direct Insurance Company, $500,000/$1.5 million