Walter Gans

Over 40 years of experience in legal profession with emphasis on alternative dispute resolution, international business transactions, management, antitrust, corporate and commercial...

Work History

Over 40 years of experience in legal profession with emphasis on alternative dispute resolution, international business transactions, management, antitrust, corporate and commercial, legal compliance, and ethics. ADR Experience: As general counsel, directed management and legal department in the use of ADR processes (including mediation, mini-trial, and arbitration) in a variety of business matters of a $15 billion multinational enterprise. Conducted mediation sessions and directed institutionalized use of alternative dispute resolution. Fellow & former board member, College of Commercial Arbitrators. Member of the AAA

Cases

Court of Arbitration for Sport, Training Seminar, Lausanne, 11/01; North American Court of Arbitration for Sport, Technical Training Seminar, LA l/01; AAA Commercial Arbitrator Training Workshops, New York, 12/01 and 5/99; Harvard University, Program on Negotiation; various other ADR training.

Training

Admitted to the Bar, New York, 1961.

Education

Saving Time and Money in Cross-Border Commercial Disputes

Publications

DISPUTE RESOLUTION JOURNAL, AAA, 1997; ADR: The Siemens’ Experience

Awards

CPR International Inst. for Conflict Prevention & Resolution AAA / ICDR : Commercial, International & Complex Disputes
ICC Commission on Arbtration

Panels

American Bar Association (Antitrust Section; Business Law Section; Dispute Resolution Section; Litigation Section; International Law and Practice Section); International Bar Association; American Foreign Law Association; The Corporate Bar; The American Corporate Counsel Association (New York City Chapter, Board of Directors); Food and Drug Law Institute (Board of Trustees); The Conference Board (Council of Chief Legal Officers); CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution (Executive Committee); Forum for EU-US Legal-Economic Affairs (Mentor Group); ABA Committee of Corporate General Counsel.

Associations

Bowdoin College (BA, Comparative Government, with honors-1957); New York University (JD-1961; LLM, Comparative Law-1967).

Miscellaneous

DISPUTE RESOLUTION JOURNAL, AAA, 1996; contributor, ANTITRUST LAW DEVELOPMENTS, second edition, American Bar Association, Antitrust Section, 1984; contributor, CORPORATE ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS, Matthew Bender &Co.