Mark Bunim
Arbitrator and Mediator at Case Closure, LLC.
Experience
Mr. Bunim has conducted over 50 arbitrations as a sole arbitrator and as a member of three person tribunals and principally as tribunal chair. He has also mediated over 500 cases. His arbitrations and mediations have primarily involved the insurance industry and issues of coverage and liability. He has also arbitrated general breach of contract disputes, computer software compliance, partnership dissolutions, family business corporate disputes and health care industry business disputes. Most of the arbitrations were venued in New York and New Jersey and also in Illinois, California and in London.
Work History
Prior to becoming a full time alternative dispute resolution professional in 2005, Mr. Bunim was an associate in the litigation department of O\"Melveny and Myers, a managing partner at Ohrenstein and Brown, and an insurance litigation partner at Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Ahronson and Berman, which became Bryan Cave in 2003.
Cases
Please see Mr. Bunim\"s website: www.caseclosure.com
Training
Mr. Bunim was first trained as a mediator by CPR in 2005 and as an arbitrator by the American Arbitration Assn. and has participated in training yearly since 2005, under the auspices of the New York State Bar Assn., the American Arbitration Assn., the New York City Bar Assn., ARIAS, and the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. Mr. bunim has also taught training courses through the various Bar associations and the AAA.
License(s)
Mr. Bunim is licenses to practice law in New York and in all New York Federal Courts and in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Education
Rutgers University School of Law (J.D.-1975); New York University, (B.A., summa cum laude-1971).
Publications
“Insurance Mediation: Is It Time to Return to the Good Old Days?”, N. Y. Law Journal, April 19, 2022. “The New York Court of Appeals Overturns the Appellate Division’s Ruling Regarding Functus Officio”; Practical Law, May 2020. \" Practice and Procedure in US Insurance Arbitration\"; Practical Law, Thomson/Reuters, January 2018. \" When States Prohibit Dispute Resolution\"; Dispute Resolution Journal of the American Arbitration Assn., Vol. 71, No. 1, 2016. \"Solving the Insurance Allocation Dilemma\"; NY Law Journal, September 15, 2015. \"The Second Circuit Curtails the Manifest Disregard Argument\"; NY Law Journal, February 6, 2015. \"Insurance Broker Exposure; A New Day in New York\"; NY Law Journal, Outside Counsel column, April 24, 2014. \"The Ten Commandments for a Successful Mediation\"; Litigation Management Magazine, Fall 2012. \"A Twist in Standard Mediation: The Insurer is at the Table\"; NY Law Journal July 29, 2010, Pg. 1. \"Mediation of Estate and Commercial Family Disputes\"; NY Law Journal, January 14, 2010, Pg. 1.
Awards
Please see www.caseclosure.com for a complete listing
Panels
American Arbitration Association Large Complex Claim panel and well as the AAA\"s commercial panel and insurance panel; Distinguished Neutral panel of FedArb; National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals panel.
Associations
In addition to being a member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, Mr. Bunim is Co-Chair of the Insurance Dispute Committee of the Dispute Resolution Section of the N.Y. State Bar Assn and a member of the Section\"s executive committee; a Diplomate member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals; a member of the New York City Bar Assn. Arbitration Committee.