Member Profile: Melvin A. Rubin

	Melvin A. Rubin Mediation Services, Inc. 111 Majorca Ave Coral Gables, FL 33134 Tel: (305) 446-4630 Fax: (305) 446-4978 Website: www.melrubin.com	View Printable Resume GoogleMaps for this Location

ADR Services Include:

Mediation; Arbitration

ADA Disability Civil Rights Commercial/Business Community Associations EEOC Employment Health Care

Insurance Intellectual Property Local Government Non-profit Organizations Personal Injury Postal Probate

Product Liability Public Policy Religious Institutions Torts Trusts / Estates

BIOGRAPHICAL:

Mr. Rubin has mediated thousands of cases in all areas of conflict, including civil, appellate and family. He has mediated cases from complex, multi-parties to highly emotional family business disputes and divorces. He helped pioneer the concept of pre-mediation caucusing in difficult cases thought not to be resolvable.

He has trained over 6000 professionals in ADR over the past 25 years, including various former state Supreme Court Justices and in house for national law firms. He is nationally known for his work in ADR ethics, professional malpractice and designing ADR systems after mass disasters, including insurance class actions, hurricanes and the current mortgage foreclosure crisis. He now acts as an ADR consultant to The Collins Center for Public Policy in reference to their state wide mortgage foreclosure mediation program dealing with thousands of court cases.

Mr. Rubin the immediate past president of the American College of Civil Trail Mediators; a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Mediation; currently serves on the Florida Supreme Court Mediation and Arbitration Policy and Rules Committee (over 12 years); adjunct professor at the University of Miami Law School (over 8 years), former president of the Florida Association of Professional Family Mediators; previously served on the first Board of Advisors for the International Association for Collaborative Professionals and is one of eight of the core faculty of the American Institute for Mediation. He now serves on the first Executive Committee of the National Academy of Neutrals.

Mr. Rubin has written extensively, including ADR chapters for Lexis/Nexus, the ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine and maintains a regular ethics' column for the Advanced Commercial Mediation Institute Newsletter (a part of ACR). He has lectured for a variety of Webinars and has been the keynote speaker for various international, national and state conferences. He merges the practitioner, ethicist and teacher into all of his work.

EDUCATION:

• University Of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, J.D. 1968.
• University Of Miami, B.B.A., Cum Laude, Political Science, 1965.
• Harvard University And American Bar Association-Mediation Training And Certification, 1985.
• American Arbitration Association, Circuit Civil Mediation Training, University Of Florida, 1989.
• Supreme Court Arbitration Training, Tampa, 1988.
• Advanced Mediation Training On A Continuous Basis Since 1985.
• EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission United States) May 1999 And 2001, Miami, Florida, Intensive Trainings In Reference To Labor And Employment Disputes And Grievances Of All Natures.
• United States Postal Services, October, 1999, Miami, Florida, Intensive Two (2) Day Training In Reference To Employment And Labor Grieveances And Disputes And Training In Transformative Mediation (Redress I) And December 2001, Redress II Training For 2 ½ Days.
• American's With Disability Act (ADA), Key Bridge (Washington D.C.) In Conjunction With The Department Of Justice, United States, Advanced And Intensive Training Program To Mediate Disputes Involving Disablities And Discrimination Conflict Involving Those Entitled Under The ADA.
• The Florida Bar Training For Grievance Program Mediation.
• Class Actions, Collins Center For Public Policy, Orlando, Flroida, July 1998 And July 1999 Two Three (3) Day Intensive Trainings On Mediating Class Actions. Training Was Provided In Both Mediation And Arbitration In Reference To These Claims By Florida Department Of Insurance And Collins Center For Public Policy.

Memberships & Affiliations

• Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator since 1985, #01436FR.
• United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, Certified Mediator
• Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator, April 1988
• Past Neutral Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association
• Supreme Court Certified Circuit-Civil Mediator, Since 1985, #01436FR.
• Apprellate Mediator, Certified by the 5th District Court of Appeal, FL 2006.
• Certified Mediator for the Florida Bar Attorney Grievance Program
• Certified Mediator by EEOC.
• Certified Mediator for State of Florida, Department of Insurance.
• Certified Mediator, State of Florida, Department of Business Regulation.
• Qualified Mediator for U.S. Department of Justice for Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Appointed Special Master by Miami-Dade County Department of Business Development
• Certified United States Postal Service Mediator for REDRESS I AND II.
• Supreme Court Certified Mediation Training Programs for Circuit-Civil and Family.
• Trainer & Approved APCOM Reviewer for Prudential Life Insurance Company - National Class Action - Selected by Department of Insurance, Prudential and the administrator of the program, the Collins Center for Public Policy, Tallahassee - July 1998
• Trainer for and Approvde ADR Neutral for John Hancock Life Insurance Co. National Class Action - Selected by Insurance Commissioner, John Hancock and Collins Center, May 1999
• Certified Training with the Florida Conflict Resolution Consortium under the Environmental Litigation Reform Act and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
• Certification for Arbitration and Mediation by Attorney General of State of Florida for lemon law applied to recreational vehicles
• World Bank Certified Mediator, 1998
• Certified by State of Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Florida Land Sales, Condominiums and Mobile Homes.

Rates

Melvin A. Rubin is a member of the Florida Circuit-Civil Mediator Society, Florida's premier roster of distinguished attorney-mediators. The FCCMS profile includes more specific local information, such as counties and regions served, and can be visited directly at www.floridamediators.org/mel-rubin