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JENNIFER PETERSON

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PROFILE

Skilled litigator and mediator with significant entrepreneurial business experience, proven problem solving skills, and ability to build relationships.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Simeon H. Baum, Esq. (www.disputeResolve.com)

Resolve Mediation Services, Inc., New York, NY (www.mediators.com)

Associate, June 2008–Present

Litigation

Participate in litigation primarily concerning business and commercial matters and unfair competition, including supplementary proceedings. Conduct legal research, draft and review documents including motions, memoranda of law, affidavits and affirmations, pleadings, and correspondence. Conduct discovery. Communicate with clients, attorneys, courts, and outside agencies.

Participate in settlement negotiations including developing valuation, risk analysis, evaluating terms and communicating offers to clients and counsel.

Appear before the court for settlement conferences, pre-trial conferences, and motion hearings.

Mediation

Participate in mediations involving employee benefits, hostile work environment and retaliation, unfair competition, financial services, securities industry disputes, family business and estate matters, malpractice, commercial claims, bankruptcy, business disputes, business dissolution, property damage and personal injury, insurance coverage and subrogation, environmental claims, construction, homeowners disputes, real property, and intellectual property.

Work closely with counsel and parties to prepare matters for mediation including intake, conferences and correspondence to develop legal issues, necessary parties, litigation status, relationship and interests of the parties, availability of insurance, and to develop and administer mediation schedules including timing and follow-up for information exchange, timing of submission of pre-mediation statements and exhibits, and development of settlement proposals and strategy for mediation. Attend mediations. Draft settlement agreements.

Current caseload includes over 100 active matters pending in New York and New Jersey courts and other venues.

Teaching

Assist in development of materials, agenda, and presentation of basic and advanced commercial mediation training seminars and other programs for the New York State Supreme Court, Commercial Division and others.

Assist in teaching Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School Negotiations course, including developing syllabus, reviewing students’ assignments, and responding to student inquiries concerning substantive and administrative matters.

Peterson’s Property Management Company, New York, NY

Owner/Founder, June 2003–Present

Started and developed successful real estate management business providing full service rental management services to independent property owners in New York City.

Represent independent property owners in negotiations concerning commercial and residential leases, insurance contracts and coverage, construction and maintenance and repair contracts, and in administrative matters before city agencies. Ensure compliance with city and state rules and regulations concerning registration and operation of building and equipment, renovations, rent regulated apartments, and related matters.

Address all tenant issues including vacancy, lease break, tenant complaints, and non-payment situations.

Adecco USA, Inc. New York, NY

Legal Assistant (Part-time, Temp.), September 2002–August 2003

Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp., (Law Clinic) New York, NY

Legal Intern, Aug. 2000–July 2001

Defended clients in Housing Court and in administrative proceedings concerning welfare benefits.

Participated in class action lawsuit concerning illegal denials of applications for welfare and Food Stamps. Reviewed and prepared evidence for trail. Briefed senior counsel on anticipated objections.

New York Supreme Court, New York, NY

Legal Intern, Honorable William Wetzel, Summer 2000

Social Work Counseling and Teaching, 1994-1999

Counseled adults and teenagers in various situations including alternatives to corrections and long-term, outdoor adventure programs. Helped to establish and staff a teen suicide hotline. Facilitated treatment groups concerning post traumatic stress, substance abuse, victims of parental and spousal abuse, and other issues. Conducted mediations including teens, their families, and guardians.

Taught English as a Second Language in the U.S. and Thailand to beginning through business level learners.

EDUCATION

Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY

Juris Doctor, 2003

Honors: Public Service Award; New York County Lawyers’ Association Minority Student Fellowship

Notable Activities: Vice-President, Asian Pacific American Law Student Association; Fordham Law Tutor and Mentor.

Research Assistant: Conducted research for Prof. Michael Martin concerning Social Security Disability law.

State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY

Bachelor of Science in Social Work, cum laude, 1994

Notable Activities: President, Social Work Student Association. Organized statewide student lobbying activities concerning successful efforts to establish state licensing procedures for social workers.

Externship: New York State Department of Correctional Services (August 1993–May 1994). Lead successful initiative to develop and make mandatory in all New York State correctional facilities (affecting 68,000 inmates in 63 facilities) a program of conflict resolution and peer mediation training which remains in use today.

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY (Freshman Year)

SELECTED MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION TRAINING

New York State Attorney-Client Fee Dispute Program, Arbitration Training (8 hours), 2011

Safe Horizon Community Mediation Training and Apprenticeship (80 hours), 2010

Supreme Court, Commercial Division, Advanced Commercial Mediation Training (16 hours), 2009

Supreme Court, Commercial Division, Basic Commercial Mediation Training (24 hours), 2009

PUBLICATION

Article: The Source and Limits of Arbitral Authority to Sanction: Questions Growing Out of ReliaStar Life Insurance Company of New York v. EMC National Life Company, a/k/a National Travelers Life Company; NY Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Spring 2010

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND PRO-BONO AFFILIATIONS

New York State Bar Association: Founding Member of the Dispute Resolution Section. In close collaboration with founding Chair, Simeon H. Baum, actively recruited section leadership, developed and implemented goals for the organization, including designing and promoting meetings and CLE, creating a quarterly substantive magazine, developing substantive reports and lobbying efforts. Membership efforts resulted in growth from 93 members at inception to over 800 members after the first year, and approximately 2800 members currently.

Other Memberships: New York County Lawyers’ Association; American Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section; Federal Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section; International Ombudsman Association.

Pro-Bono Mediation and Arbitration: Safe Horizon Community Mediator; Arbitrator, New York State Attorney-Client Fee Dispute Program, Joint Committee on Fee Disputes and Conciliation, Part 137 of the Rules of the Chief Administrative Judge; Secretary, New York Peace Institute, Mediators’ Advisory Board.

BAR ADMISSION

Admitted in New York, 2008

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