Goals

Jose Antonio G. Alvaro	Mr. Alvaro's Dispute Resolution company is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. He played a key role in developing the first network of professional arbitrators and mediators in Spain.
J. Lani Bader	Professor and Dean Emeritus at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. Professor Bader has lectured extensively on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Louis N. Cachecho	International attorney in private practice in Damascus, Syria. He serves as an arbitrator in numerous national and international commercial disputes.
Riad F. Chehlaoui, Ph.D.	Dr. Chehlaoui is an international mediator with 25 years of business experience. He co-founded Matrix Legal Solutions and serves on the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Board of Texas.
James A. Drexler	Practicing attorney in complex civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Extensive Mediation and arbitration in the areas of employment, franchising, and securities matters.
Jerry Hall, Ph.D.	Dr. Hall has provided mediation training to over 5,500 individuals and serves on the international dispute, ethics, and procedure committees of the ADR Section of the ABA.
Kimball Kehoe, Ph.D.	Harvard trained Dr. Kehoe has focused on developing leaders at the Center for Creative Leadership. He headed the executive education programs at Rice and Duke Universities.
Eckhard Schuetze	Renowned German lawyer with an active international mediation and arbitration practice with offices in Hamburg and Berlin. He played a Key role in the reunification of Germany.

Mr. Alvaro is Managing Partner of ARyME, a private company headquartered in Madrid, Spain that promotes resolution of civil and commercial disputes through arbitration and mediation. He has trained hundreds of professionals on Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms in Spain and the United States. Holding degrees in Political Science and International Relations and a Masters degree in International Trade, Mr. Alvaro is a frequent lecturer on ADR topics and has published numerous articles and essays addressing ADR issues. Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Alvaro has played a key role in developing the first comprehensive network of professional arbitrators and mediators in Spain. In cooperation with leading jurists specializing in Family Law, he also developed Spain’s first Family Mediation Program.

J. Lani Bader is Professor and Dean Emeritus at Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, California. A 1960 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Bader has extensive experience in dispute resolution, both as an arbitrator and mediator, specializing in arbitrating and mediating large complex commercial cases involving mergers and acquisitions, financing and securities transactions, technology and intellectual property issues, and franchise and partnership disputes. He also has extensive experience in Alternative Dispute Resolution training, creating and publishing training materials for beginning and advanced arbitrator programs of the Northern California division of the AAA and serving as a member of AAA’s National Training Faculty. Professor Bader has spoken, written, and lectured extensively with respect to issues concerning Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is Co-Editor of the California ADR Practice Guide, Shepard’s McGraw-Hill (1993 Ed.)

Mr. Cachecho is an international attorney in private practice in Damascus, Syria where he represents several European embassies and many Arab and European firms. He specializes in the resolution of international commercial disputes. Mr. Cachecho has extensive experience in Syrian and International trade law, Arab and International private law, banking, oil & gas, joint ventures and trade marks. He regularly employs arbitration and mediation in international conflict resolutions on behalf of his clients and also has served as an arbitrator in numerous national and international commercial disputes. Mr. Cachecho was admitted to the Damascus Bar in 1962 and has been an advocate before the Syrian Supreme Court and the Court of Cassation since 1964. He is a member of the Syrian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris (ICC), the Cairo Regional Center of International Commercial Arbitration, and the Arab Association for International Arbitration.

Dr. Chehlaoui holds a Ph.D. in Business with emphasis on Production, Finance and Behavior Science. He also holds an undergraduate and master’s degree in Industrial Engineering. Dr. Chehlaoui brings to mediation 25 years of diversified business experience. His specialization consists of real estate, construction, securities, intellectual property, title VII and international trade. Dr. Chehlaoui serves on the board of the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Board of Texas. He is a founder and principal of Matrix Legal Solutions, Inc., which provides alternative dispute resolution programs, EEOC investigations and legal staffing to the public and private sectors. He has successfully mediated several employment issues at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and numerous business litigations in the Houston and Harris county court systems. He frequently conducts seminars in the area of diversity. He is also a founder and principal of Interfield, a holding company for engineering and real estate investments. Dr. Chehlaoui’s career started in the academic world where he taught in the undergraduate and graduate schools of Engineering and Business Administration at the University of Houston. During his tenure at the University he was active in international consulting and has maintained an extensive international business network. He is a member of the Rotary club.

James A. Drexler has over twenty-seven years' experience as a practicing attorney with emphasis in the areas of complex civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, business tort, civil RICO, civil rights, deceptive and unfair trade practice, employment, environmental, False Claims Act Qui Tam, franchising, and securities law disputes. Mr. Drexler has mediated and/or arbitrated a significant number of his clients' disputes, particularly in the areas of employment, franchising, and securities matters. A member of the International Association of Mediators and Arbitrators, Mr. Drexler has served as a mediator for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in employment disputes and as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association in franchising disputes. Mr. Drexler is a member of the State Bars of Texas and Tennessee. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of Texas, and the Western District of Tennessee, the United States Fifth and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals, The United States Claims Court, and the United States Supreme Court.

Dr. Hall holds a Doctorate degree is Psychology from Columbia State University and is a graduate of the Harvard School of Law negotiations. A certified mediator, since 1980, Dr. Hall has operated ADR Services International for the past twenty-four years, providing mediation training to over 5,500 individuals and providing mediation and arbitration procurement services throughout the U.S. and other parts of the world. Dr. Hall serves on the International Dispute Committee for Ethics, and Procedures of the ADR Section of the American Bar Association and is a member of the Texas Roundtable of Mediators. He has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Justice Department U.S. Postal Service, EEOC, OSHA, and NASA, assisting these organizations in implementing internal mediation programs. In July 2000, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law. A frequent teacher and lecturer on topics pertaining to ADR, Dr. Hall was a keynote speaker at the 1999 National Conflict Management Conference. He is currently working on developing Mediation practices in Latin American.

Dr. Kehoe holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, where he focused on labor relations and human resource management. In particular, he studied negotiation and arbitration in automobile and other industries. Subsequently he chose a career in industry when he joined the human resource staff at Eli Lilly and Co. In his ten years there he had many opportunities to mediate and resolve disputes between people and between work groups. Later he moved to a university setting where he had responsibility for executive education programs, first at Rice University and later at Duke University. He developed and taught short courses in conflict resolution and negotiation techniques to executives, managers and professionals from various organizations. In the last eight years he has focused on the work of developing leaders at the Center for Creative Leadership, Personnel Decisions International and ProfitLink.

Mr. Schuetze is a German lawyer with an active international economic law and mediation and arbitration practice with offices located in Hamburg and Berlin. He played an active role on behalf of the German government during the reunification of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in organizing the transition from the former communist economy of the GDR to the free market economy of the West, preparing detailed plans for the reorganization, privatization, and capitalization of more than 150 East German companies. Mr. Schuetze has continued his work for the German government in liquidating foreign trade enterprises of the former GDR in Syria, Ecuador, and Brazil. He also represents the interests of many German companies in India, where he is the only non-Indian citizen member of the prestigious Doon School Old Boys Society in Delhi.