Jeff H. Abrams

Jeff Abrams, Esq. has successfully mediated challenging cases for thousands of parties since 1986. Jeff has been a lawyer since 1980, an active full-time mediator since 1986, a mediation trainer since 1988, and an arbitrator since 1990. Before becoming a mediator, he worked as a trial lawyer handling complex business litigation. In the late 1990s, Jeff was the President and CEO of a national fitness company for long-haul truckers, establishing gyms at truck stops across the country. Jeff was an ADR pioneer, serving on the legislative task force that drafted the landmark 1987 Texas ADR law.  He is a recipient of the Steve Brutsche Award for Excellence from the Association of Attorney-Mediators. He was peer selected as one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas" for Alternative Dispute Resolution in D Magazine for many consecutive years.

Jeff receives mediation referrals from state and federal judges, lawyers, FINRA, and parties in civil cases; e.g., securities, complex commercial, business, workplace, healthcare, intellectual property, personal injury, products, and others. Jeff has trained attorneys, judges and executives in communication and negotiation, conflict management, mediation skills, and dispute resolution systems design.  He consulted with FINRA (then NASD) on the original design of its mediation program and trained the executive staff in mediation skills. Jeff is a frequent and popular speaker on ADR. He brings the unique skills necessary to resolve the most difficult cases. 

• Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, FL, J.D. with High Honors, June 1980
• Law Review, Moot Court, Order of the Coif
• Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, B.A., Magna Cum Laude, May 1977

• Texas Bar Association
• USDC, NDTX mediation panel
• FINRA Dispute Resolution mediation panel
• FINRA Dispute Resolution arbitration panel
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, SDNY mediation panel
• Association of Attorney-Mediators
• Texas Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
• National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
• Peer selected "Best Lawyers in Dallas" (ADR), D Magazine

Full-day rate for a two-party case is $4,750 per party (based on two parties).  Half-day rate for a two-party case is $2,500 per party (based on two parties).  The rate is less if divided by more than two parties (total fee divided by paying parties).