| Bette Roth, a full-time mediator and arbitrator, has handled more than 800 cases involving a wide-range of commercial, employment, securities, construction, real estate, professional malpractice, and family business/real property ownership disputes. Among others, she has settled in mediation real property disputes involving breach of the purchase and sale agreement, adverse possession, easements, title, zoning, inspection, and variance disputes involving the city, family, and surrounding neighbors. Before 1992, Ms. Roth was a trial lawyer for several years in private practice and before that with the federal government. In addition to REBA Dispute Resolution, Ms. Roth mediates and arbitrates with American Arbitration Association (AAA), CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, FINRA, Resolute Systems, Inc., and Case Closed. She is certified by the International Mediation Institute in The Hague.
Ms. Roth has spoken extensively on mediation and arbitration for MCLE, the Boston Bar Association, where she served as co-chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Litigation Section, and the American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education (ALI-ABA), and she has trained arbitrators through MCLE and mediators through AAA. She has published numerous articles on dispute resolution with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, The Practical Lawyer (ALI-ABA), the Boston Bar Journal, PIABA, NSCP Currents, MCLE, CCLE, and on antitrust through The Antitrust Bulletin. Ms. Roth is the primary editor and contributing author of the national two-volume text, The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide (© 1993-2009 Thomson/West), a finalist for the 1994 CPR book award. This text is widely cited by litigants and judges, and she has become a staple in most law libraries. She publishes its yearly updates, which has kept her on the forefront of dispute resolution developments for the past 17 years.
Recognized for her work in dispute resolution, Ms. Roth was named a "Super Lawyer" in the field of DR by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine for each year since 2006, and in 2001, she received the John Dunlop Dispute Resolution Award from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for her work in mediation. Ms. Roth also teaches mediation at Boston University School of Law.
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