What is your profession and title?

Attorney-- Mediator & Arbitrator

What is your ADR experience? (trainings and education)

CPR/CI Arb Arbitrator training; Certified ARIAS-US arbitrator & mediator: Certified arbitrator & mediator U.S. District Court for the E.D. of PA; 40 years of legal practice as a commercial litigator and dispute resolution professional; member of the CPR International Institute for Conflict lict Prevention and Resolution's Panel of Distinguished Neutrals ( and 27 years of attending annual meeting and training workshops); Judge Pro Tempore ,Court of Common Pleas Philadelphia County; Certified ReMedi Mediator; former chair of law firm ADR practice group and former chair of FDCC ADR Section.

What, if any, ADR organizations or groups do you belong to?

Member Chartered Institute of Arbitrator; ARIAS-US; Association for Conflict Resolution; ABA Section of Dispute Resolution; Re/InsuranceMediation Institute.

What are you hoping to get from ADRhub.com

Exposure to a broad range of ADR professionals and ability to participate in discusions of current issues, concerns and best practices.

Do you/your company have a website?

http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardshustermanadr

What other ADR related sites do you visit?

Various ADR professional websites and blogs;Various linkedin ADR, Mediation and Arbitration groups; ABA Dispute Resolution Section;CPR website ; ARIAS-US; JAMS; AAA.

What else do you want to tell the ADRhub.com community (what you are up to, what you would like to do in ADR, etc.)

I would like to see mediation used more broadly in areas that routinely resort to arbitration such as reinsurance, contractual arbitration of commercial disputes and other such areas. I am involved in those areas as a mediator and am finding that as arbitration has become more expensive , time consumming and complex, there is a growing willingness for the parties to explore mediation as a way for them to resume control over their own dispute resolution process.