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Bette Roth has over 40 years of combined experience as a mediator, arbitrator, and lawyer. She has served as mediator in approximately 1600 cases involving a wide range of commercial, employment, securities, real estate, construction, and professional liability issues. She is a member of the AAA Panel of Mediators (designated "master mediator"), AAA's Panels of Commercial and Employment Arbitrators, Boston's Real Estate Bar Association (REBA) Panel of Neutrals. She taught the mediation course at Boston University School of Law for over a decade. Prior to focusing her practice exclusively on disputes resolution in 1992, Ms. Roth litigated with San Francisco law firms, following service as an enforcement attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Approximately 1,600 mediations and 400 arbitrations involving, among other things, employment discrimination, wage/hour disputes, commercial and partnership contract disputes, security/banking disputes, construction disputes, claims involving class, fiduciary, and equitable issues.
Among other forms of recognition:
- “Top Lawyer" list by Boston Magazine 2025, 2023 (nominated and voted by peers)
- New England Super Lawyer in the field of ADR by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine for 10+ years (nominated and voted by peers as top 5% of lawyers in the field)
- 2016, 2013: Top Women Attorneys in Massachusetts
"I combine the facilitative and evaluative approaches to mediation. I listen to parties to help them explore their interests in resolution. Drawing from my years of experience as an attorney and arbitrator, I help parties to assess risk based on the case strengths and weaknesses, consider possible outcomes, evaluate and fashion proposals, and move toward settlement. I believe that every case can be settled with hard work and an open mind. I expect counsel to prepare for the mediation by exploring with their clients a range of settlement options in light of the facts of the facts of their case and the applicable law. I ask counsel to submit materials in advance (mediation statements, pleadings, motions, and damage/expert reports where applicable) and I always review them thoroughly before the mediation session. I make myself available for questions or assistance before the mediation session. Approximately 95% of my mediations conclude with a settlement within 5-8 hours. If the case is not able to conclude during the scheduled time, I follow up with counsel (typically by telephone) until the matter is resolved."
Employment: discrimination, wrongful termination, wage/hour, non-compete, executive contracts/severance. Commercial: contracts, partnerships, banking, franchise, UCC, bankruptcy; closely held corporations, leases. Securities: individual, partnership, trust, ERISA, and pensions involving registered representatives, broker-dealers, banks, accounting firms, transfer agents. Real estate: land use, ownership, real estate sales, zoning, title, adverse possession, environmental, housing discrimination. Construction: commercial, residential, and municipal involving claims and counterclaims by owner, general and subcontractors, engineers, architects, and bonding companies. Professional liability: negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, negligent supervision, malpractice, fraud.
$600/hour plus travel expenses for session, study, and preparation time. Travel time invoiced at reduced rate. Cancellation notice to avoid fee for time reserved.
Boston Bar Association (former co-chair of ADR Committee of Litigation and International Law Sections), Massachusetts Bar Association; California State Bar Association (inactive); Wisconsin Bar Association (inactive).
Suzanne Herold (Herold Law Group, PC), Keerthi Sugumaran (Jackson Lewis), Elizabeth Adler (Beacon Law Group, LLC).
Office of the Attorney General - Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Peer Mediation Trainer Training; Framingham Court Mediation Services, Advanced Mediator Trainings on ADA Disputes and Family Systems; Framingham Court Mediation Services Basic Mediator Training; Mediation training/mentoring with Randall Wulff (San Francisco).
Ms. Roth taught the mediation course at Boston University School of Law for over a decade and occasionally serves as faculty member of mediation training programs.
Ms. Roth speaks frequently on mediation and arbitration at various CLE and Bar Association programs on mediation and arbitration involving cases relating to employment, closely held corporations, securities, class actions, ethics, confidentiality, enforceability of settlement agreements.
Primary editor and author, THE ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICE GUIDE (Thomson Reuters 2025), contributor, "ADR and the Law" (MCLE 2010), co-author, "Class Action Arbitrations: A First Circuit Update", BOSTON BAR JOURNAL, April 2008; ARBITRATION PRACTICE UPDATE 2007, MCLE 2007; "Litigation Tactics in Mediation: Are They Ethical?," MASS. LAWYERS WEEKLY, February 2005; co-editor and contributing author, COURT MANDATED BASIC TRAINING FOR ARBITRATORS, MCLE, 2005; editor and contributing author, WHAT EVERY LAWYER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ARBITRATION, MCLE, 2004; "Ten Suggestions for Negotiation in Employment Mediation," THE PRACTICAL LAWYER, ALI-ABA, October 2004; co-author, "Maximizing the Potential of Mediation," MASS. LAWYERS WEEKLY, April 2004; "Mediating Your Securities Disputes Successfully," NSCP CURRENTS, Winter 2004; "Selecting the Right Organization and Arbitrator," MASS. LAWYERS WEEKLY, February 2003; editor and contributing author, ARBITRATION PRACTICE AND UPDATE 2002, MCLE, 2002; co-author, "Per Se Legality of Some Naked Restraints: A [Re]Conceptualization of the Antitrust Analysis of Cartelistic Organizations," THE ANTITRUST BULLETIN, July 2000; co-author, SECURITIES ARBITRATION: SPECIAL REPORT, Wiley Law Publications, 1989; contributing author, SECURITIES LITIGATION: STATE AND FEDERAL, California CLE, 1988.
AAA/ABA/ACR Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators
IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process
Professional Liability Insurance Program (Pinkham Agency Inc) Coverage: $100,000/$300,000