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Alan Kanter

Attorney & Mediator

“Commercial Mediator”

Birmingham, Michigan
47+Years Exp

Core Practice Areas

7 Verticals
✓Commercial Contracts
✓Partnership Dissolution
✓Securities Litigation
✓Franchise Disputes
✓Employment Discrimination
✓IT Services Contracts
✓Provider-Payer Disputes
✓Certified Neutral
✓Court-Approved ADR

About & Mediation Philosophy

Neutral Profile

Alan M. Kanter is a practicing lawyer and a neutral ADR provider serving on many neutral panels as an arbitrator, mediator, facilitator and case evaluator. Alan practices, arbitrates and mediates matters and disputes involving many different areas of law. In addition, Alan is an educator, teaching ADR to practicing attorneys, state court judges and law students, and is a consultant and an author, focusing primarily on the fields of mediation and arbitration. Alan engages in a significant amount of ADR work for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and has been an arbitrator, mediator and case evaluator from the early 1980's to the present. He is currently AAA-certified as an active mediator and arbitrator panelist on the regular and large complex Commercial, Employment Law, Health Law, Securities and Franchise Panels of the AAA, an Arbitrator and Mediator for the American Health Lawyers Association, United States Arbitration & Mediation Association, Mediation Works Incorporated (MWI), National Center for Dispute Resolution Resolute Solutions, LLC., and a Distinguished Arbitrator and Mediator for the CPR Dispute Resolution Institute. Alan is also Court certified to mediate in the Courts in the State of Michigan. Alan has been a case evaluator for the Oakland County Circuit Court since 1984, and participated in the creation of the Oakland County Circuit Court Early Case Evaluation Program. He regularly serves as a neutral throughout the United States, on Large Complex Disputed Matters involving: Complex corporate & commercial transactions, Mergers and acquisitions, Health care, Employment, Franchise, Computer & technology, Software development, E commerce law and IT issues, Entertainment, Intellectual property, Telecommunications, and Securities.

Credentials & Institutional Standing

Primary Verifications

License

Attorney

Education

Wayne State University Law School

J.D. · Law

Class of 1979

Wayne State University Law School

BA

Class of 1976

Work History

2 Positions

Case Evaluator-Discovery Mediator

Oakland County Circuit Court

1984 – Present

Participated in the creation of the Oakland County Circuit Court Early Case Evaluation Program.

Arbitrator and Mediator

American Arbitration Association

1980 – Present

Panelist on Commercial, Employment Law, Health Law, Securities and Franchise Panels.

Honors & Recognition

5 Honors

Distinguished Fellow

International Academy of Mediators

Fellow and Director

College of Commercial Arbitrators

Fellow

National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals

Master

American Inn’s of Court (OCBA)

Fellow

American Bar Foundation

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