Member Profile: Joseph J. Bongiovi III

	Joseph J. Bongiovi III BONGIOVI DISPUTE RESOLUTIONS Mailing Address: 2807 Middle Earth Street Las Vegas, NV 89135 Tel: (702) 889-4600 Fax: (702) 364-2092 Website: www.bongiovi.com Joseph J. Bongiovi III regularly travels out of state to New York	View Printable Resume GoogleMaps for this Location

ADR Services Include:

Mediation; Arbitration; Early Neutral Evaluation; Med-Arb

Appellate Automotive Banking & Finance Commercial/Business Contract Disputes Employment Health Care Insurance Intellectual Property

Legal Malpractice Libel & Slander Medical Malpractice Nursing Homes Personal Injury Premises Liability Product Liability Professional Fees Professional Liability

Professional Malpractice Professional Negligence Real Estate Software Technology Torts Wrongful Death

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Joe Bongiovi is the principal of Bongiovi Dispute Resolutions, a law firm with a practice limited to alternative dispute resolution - mediation and arbitration. Mr. Bongiovi was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and has been a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1970. He graduated from UNLV with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and then received his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law having earned honors in trial advocacy while in attendance. He is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Nevada and before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. 

Mr. Bongiovi carries an A/V rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in their Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. In April 2006, Mr. Bongiovi was also listed among "The Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America" following a national survey of lawyers and judges by the Lawdragon publication. In 2007, he was accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. In 2010, he was named a "Super Lawyer" in ADR and was later invited to become a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals.

Having represented insurers, insureds and self-insured entities while in litigation practice, Mr. Bongiovi limited his practice to mediation and arbitration in 1996 when he established Bongiovi Dispute Resolutions. He then became the first full-time mediator based in southern Nevada. BDR is exclusively an ADR firm. No representation of clients occurs. Since forming BDR, Mr. Bongiovi has performed thousands of mediations and hundreds of arbitrations in disputes involving personal injury/wrongful death, malpractice, insurance/bad faith, commercial, intellectual property, contract and employment matters. He has lectured to the bench and bar on dispute resolution issues. Mr. Bongiovi handles disputes in prelitigation, litigation and appellate stages. 

EDUCATION:

• University of San Diego Law School, J.D. (1986): Int'l Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas, B.A. Psychology (1983): Fleischmann Scholar

Memberships & Affiliations

• Fellow, American College of Civil Trial Mediators
• Member, National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
• ABA Section of Dispute Resolution
• Association for Conflict Resolution (formerly SPIDR)
• State Bar of Nevada Section of Dispute Resolution
• Clark County Bar Association

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