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Regularly travels out of state to: New York, Pennsylvania
Other ADR Services: ADR Training/CME, Discovery Referee, Early Neutral Evaluation, Facilitation & Systems Design, Fact Finding, Med-Arb, Mini-Trial Judge, Special MasterBiographical
Roger Jacobs is on the commercial,employment and labor panel at the American Arbitration Association as well as mediation;arbitration from FMCS, NYPERB, FINRA and New Jersey State Board of Mediation and panel of distinguished neutrals at CPR..
Mr. Jacobs also handles arbitration from U.S. District Court and is on the mediation rosterat EDNY;SDNY and DNJ and by private appointment of the parties.
Mr. Jacobs has also handled hundreds of meditations of disputes involving commercial, construction, real estate, employment, international and FINRA cases. The matters in dispute also include intellectual property issues e.g. restrictive covenants and trade secrets.
He has engaged in extensive discovery monitoring of cases. Mediation has primarily been through court appointment in New York Supreme Court,commercial part, Superior Court of New Jersey or U.S. District Court as well as from FINRA,AAA,CPR and private parties.
Roger is an IMI certified Mediator and regularly participates as a Judge at the ICC International Mediation competition in Paris.
He served six terms as Chairman of the NJ Educational Facilities Authority;the conduit finance agency for higher education in NJ and now serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for NJTV
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Anti-Trust
- Appellate
- Automotive
- Banking & Finance
- Business Dissolution
- Civil Rights
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Community Associations
- Condominiums
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Discrimination
- Education
- EEOC
- Employment
- Entertainment Sector
- Environmental
- Franchise
- Health Care
- Intellectual Property
- International
- Labor/Unions
- Legal Malpractice
- Libel & Slander
- Local Govt./Municipalities
- Media & Communications
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Pensions / ERISA
- Pharmaceuticals
- Postal
- Professional Fees
- Professional Liability
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Public Policy
- Religious Institutions
- Sexual Harassment
- Shareholder Disputes
- Sports
- Telecommunications
- Title Disputes
- Torts
- Transportation
- Unfair Competition
- Wage & Hour/FMLA
Education
- L.L.M., New York University School of Law, 1979;
- Elias Lieberman Fellow in Labor Law (1978-79)
- J.D., New York University School of Law, 1976
- B.S., Cornell University, with honors, 1973
Memberships & Affiliations
- Association for International Arbitration
- Association for Conflict Resolution
- Mediation Panel for U.S. District Court SDNY;EDNY;DNJ
- Mediation Panel for NY Supreme Court Commercial Panel
- New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution (1999-2004)
- New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators
- International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
- He is on the AAA's panel of mediators, a mediator in the New Jersey state court mediation program and certified as a mediator by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Rates Information
495/hour