Paul Dubow

ADR neutral since 1994, full time since 2001. My current emphasis is on ERISA withdrawal liability cases and arbitrating or mediating disputes between executive and midlevel employees and their employers, but I also arbitrate or mediate all other types of employment disputes such as wage and hour matters, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, ADA violations, breach of employment contracts, and covenants not to compete, as well as professional malpractice, securities, and general business disputes.

Experience

Since becoming a full time neutral in 2001, I have conducted hearings in approximately 250 cases, mostly as a single arbitrator, and have acted as a mediator in approximately 325 cases.

Work History

I was employed by Dean Witter Reynolds from 1970 to 2000, finishing as senior vice president and deputy general counsel. I spent 26 of those years as Director of Litigation with a staff of 28 attorneys at the end. I personally tried 130 arbitrations and eleven court trials. Initially, I was solely engaged in securities litigation but, as time progressed, I became involved in employment litigation and that in turn led to my appointment to the committee that drafted the AAA employment rules. I also served as a member of the Judicial Council of California Civil and Small Claims Committee, where i participated in the drafting of the initial rules for court connected mediation in California. I also served as chair and vice chair of the State Bar of California Task Force on Complex Litigation.

Training

I have been taken various courses sponsored by the American Arbitration Association between 1994 and 2016. I was trained as a mediator by the Association of Attorney Mediators and later by the United States District Court for Northern California, both in 1994.

License(s)

State Bar of California

Education

B.A., LL.B, Rutgers University

Publications

’Avoiding Pitfalls of Mediation Confidentiality’, Contra Costa Lawyer (2008); ’Collecting Attorney Fees in Arbitration’ California Litigation Magazine, vol 2, no. 3 (2009); ’The Cassel Case: More Questions Than Answers’, California Litigation Magazine, vol. 24, no. 1 (2011); ’Can Post Award Searches Vacate Arbitration Awards?’, California Litigation Magazine, vol. 27, no. 1 (2014); ’Failure to Pay Arbitrator’s Fees’ California Litigation Magazine, vol. 29, no. 3 (2016); ’I Agreed to Arbitrate That?’ Contra Costa Lawyer (2017). I am also a co-author of the ’Post Award Matters’ chapter in each volume of the CCA Best Practices Guide and I write the annual ADR updates for theBusiness Law Section of the California Lawyers Association.

Awards

Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Mediation, Mediation Society of San Francisco, 2012.

Panels

American Arbitration Association (employment, commercial, and securities arbitration panels, mediation), Northern District of California (mediation), Third District Court of Appeal (mediation), Bar Association of San Francisco (arbitration and mediation, fee disputes), Superior Court of San Francisco County (settlement officer), National Futures Association, State Bar of California (fee disputes).

Associations

College of Commercial Arbitrators (former board member), American Bar Association (former chair of the ADR Committees of the Litiigation and Dispute Resolution Sections), Bar Association of San Francisco, Contra Costa County Bar Association (former chair of the ADR Committee), State Bar of California (former chair of the Litigation Section ADR Committee), Mediation Society of San Francisco (former president), California Dispute Resolution Council (former president and current board member), California Lawyers Association (ADR Committee)