Experience
Jonathan B. Marks has been a full-time dispute resolution professional since 1981, when he co-founded ENDISPUTE, the nation\"s first full-service ADR firm. From 1994, when ENDISPUTE merged with Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, until 1999, he was Vice-Chairman of JAMS-ENDISPUTE and Chairman of the firm’s Executive Committee, which set professional practice policies and standards for the firm’s 400 former judges and attorney neutrals. In 1999, Mr. Marks founded MarksADR, LLC, where he now practices. Over the past 40 plus years, Mr. Marks has spent all his professional time providing arbitration, mediation, and other neutral dispute resolution services. His practice is a diverse one concentrating on complex, large stakes disputes -- including those involving securities, antitrust and consumer class actions, mergers and acquisitions, financial investments, commercial and government contracts, insurance and reinsurance coverage, intellectual property, construction, officer and director liability, lawyer and accountant malpractice, environmental matters, and product liability disputes. His practice involves both U.S.-based and international clients. He currently spends the substantial majority of his professional time as an arbitrator. Before founding ENDISPUTE, Mr. Marks served in the Carter Administration as General Counsel of the International Development Cooperation Agency and as Counsel and Associate Director for Planning and Evaluation at the United States Peace Corps. Prior to moving to Washington to work in the Carter Administration, Mr. Marks was a litigating partner at Munger Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. He began his legal career as a federal prosecutor, serving as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Mr. Marks graduated from Harvard College and from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review.