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 Dr. Larry Bridgesmith serves as the founding Executive Director, associate professor at the Institute for Conflict Management at Lipscomb University, as an officer and principal in Strategic Resolutions Group, LLC., and is currently of counsel with Miller and Martin, PLLC. Bridgesmith brings nearly 30 years of experience in dispute resolution and innovative workplace strategies to clients, students and business entities alike. Dr. Bridgesmith integrates the practical, legal and academic "best practices" in dispute resolution strategies in service to his client relationships. Dr. Bridgesmith is listed annually in notable attorney rating publications such as Chambers USA, Americas Leading Lawyers for Business and Woodward White Inc.’s, America’s Leading Lawyers.
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 Dr. L Randolph Lowry is the founder of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution where he served as the director and a professor for nineteen years. That work is the basis for the newly formed Lipscomb University Institute for Conflict Management. In addition to his work as a mediator and educator, Lowry has worked, literally, around the world. He is an annual visiting faculty member at Vermont Law School and City University of Hong Kong. He has also taught at Shantou University, in Beijing, China; Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia; Hamline University. His consulting and training practice has included work for the legal community in The Netherlands, training for judges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as consultation with lawyers for Freshfields, an international law firm in Asia. |
 Dr. Steve Joiner is the Associate Director of the Institute for Conflict Management at Lipscomb University and is a professor at Lipscomb University where he teaches negotiation, conflict in religious settings, and leadership. Joiner has extensive experience conducting management and staff trainings, courses, and workshops in conflict management skills. Joiner has conducted these seminars in business, community, and religious settings. He has also served as a university dean and has taught conflict management and leadership skills in Germany, Brazil, Uganda, and throughout the U.S. Joiner has a special interest in generationally generated conflict. |
 Dr. E. Wendy Trachte-Huber is a private consultant and trainer in negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution. Prior to returning to her consulting practice she served as Claims Administrator for Settlement Facility -Dow Corning Trust. Trachte-Huber was previously Vice President for the American Arbitration Association (AAA). She was responsible for marketing dispute resolution services including training and educational programs as well as program development for the leading provider of dispute resolution services in the world. She has served as the Director of the A.A. White Dispute Resolution Institute at the University of Houston College of Business Administration for seven years prior to joining the AAA. Trachte-Huber is past co-chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution section of the State Bar of Texas. Prof. Huber has taught the ICM's Negotiation and Settlement Advocacy course. |
 Dr. Nina Meierding is a national leader in the field of conflict resolution and has been providing training and mediation services for over twenty two years. She is a former president of the Academy of Family Mediators and served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Conflict Resolution and many other organizations. She is an adjunct professor at both Pepperdine University and Southern Methodist University. She was the Director and Senior Mediator at the Mediation Center for Family Law in Ventura, California from 1985-2007 where she mediated over 4,000 disputes. She is a consultant for the Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System (WSEMS). Nina has trained thousands of individuals in businesses, courts, school districts, governmental agencies, medical centers, corporations and universities throughout the United States and abroad. Prof. Meierding has taught the ICM's Cross Cultural Conflict course. |
 Dr. Peter Robinson is the Co-Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law. He has presented advanced negotiation and mediation skills courses in more than thirty states and in Argentina, Canada, England, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Jordan, and Mexico. Prior to joining the Pepperdine community, he served as the director of the Christian Conciliation Service of Los Angeles (CCS), a non-profit dispute resolution center and a staff attorney for a U.S. Government agency that insures pension benefits pursuant to ERISA. He has served on the board of CCS, Ventura Center for Dispute Settlement, Dispute Resolution Services of the LACBA, the Southern California Mediation Association (SMCA) and the California Dispute Resolution Council. The SCMA recognized him as Peacemaker of the Year in 1999. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. Since 2006 Los Angeles Magazine has recognized Professor Robinson as a Southern California Super Lawyer in the area of mediation. Prof. Robinson has taught the ICM's Negotiation and Settlement Advocacy course. |
 Dr. Tracy Allen is an international professional mediator, arbitrator and ADR trainer. As a litigator and business tax attorney for many years, she now specializes in conflict resolution and ADR. Ms. Allen acts as a neutral service provider in other ADR areas such as early neutral evaluation, summary jury trials, special master, meeting facilitator and litigation support analyst. She also serves as independent resolution counsel for litigants. Ms. Allen's ADR practice is heavily focused in national and international commercial and business disputes although she regularly conducts mediations and arbitrations involving securities, employment, real estate, family, environmental, insurance, health law and public policy matters. Annually, she conducts many basic and advanced mediation and arbitration trainings worldwide for advocates, mediators, arbitrators and the judiciary. Ms. Allen has taught the ICM's Mediation course. |
 Dr. Edward A. Dauer is Dean Emeritus of the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver, in Denver, Colorado. He earned his A.B. degree from Brown University; an LL.B. from Yale; and an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from Harvard. Prior to becoming Dean and Professor of Law at Denver he taught for over a decade at the Yale Law School, and has since held appointments as Visiting Scholar and Visiting Lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is presently Visiting Professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, where he teaches Health Law and Policy in a joint program with the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine. In 1982, with his colleague Louis Brown, Dauer founded the National Center for Preventive Law and served as its first President. The National Center became a focus for professional and academic development in legal risk management, corporate compliance, and transaction planning. It continues today at California Western School of Law. Dean Dauer is admitted to the practice of law in Colorado, Connecticut, and the federal courts including the United States Supreme Court. He is an active mediator and consultant. Most recently he founded Common Good Colorado, a public interest organization dedicated to law reform with an emphasis on risk and injury reduction in healthcare. Prof. Dauer is teaching the ICM's Healthcare Policy course. |
 Dr. Charles Wiggins is a Professor of Law at San Diego University Law School. He joined USD’s faculty in 1974 and teaches in the areas of alternative dispute resolution, law and medicine, and constitutional law. He is a consultant in Eastern Europe for Partners for Democratic Change. Wiggins received a Fulbright Fellowship to the National Law School of India, Bangalore, and served as visiting professor of internal medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University. He is the author of “Transplanting North American Public Interest Mediation to Central Europe,” Mediation Quarterly and co-author of Negotiation and Settlement Advocacy (West Publishing Co.). Prof. Wiggins is teaching the ICM's Conflict Management in Healthcare Settings course. |
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