Dispute Resolution Experience and Training

Jerry Lawson is a full-time mediator and negotiation trainer. He has mediated over 2,200 disputes throughout the greater Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky area and in other cities in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, including environmental, construction, commercial, medical malpractice, bankruptcy, personal injury, employment, public policy and labor-management disputes. The disputes mediated have involved as many as 30 parties. He has also conducted over 175 negotiation and mediation workshops for attorneys, managers, labor representatives and other groups. He has facilitated agreements assisting stakeholders in public sector disputes to find common ground and to work together on environmental issues, institutional expansion, and land use planning and zoning disputes.

Mr. Lawson graduated from the Columbia University School of Law in 1968 and has been practicing as a mediator since 1988. He was trained in mediation and negotiation at the Harvard Law School, and in mediation by the Center for Dispute Settlement and the Divorce Mediation Institute.

Professional Experience

Mr. Lawson has been President and Senior Mediator of the Center for Resolution of Disputes, providing mediation, facilitation and arbitration services in Cincinnati Ohio and Northern Kentucky, since its establishment in 1988. Mr. Lawson has over 37 years of legal, managerial and public policy experience, first at one of Cincinnati's largest law firms and later as Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati.

Professional Affiliations and Civic Activities

Mr. Lawson is a member of the Sections on Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Cincinnati Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association, is a practitioner member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and is a mediation panel member for the Center for Public Resources.

Mr. Lawson has been an active member of the Cincinnati community having served on the regional and county health planning boards, as an elected member of the Cincinnati Board of Education (1983 - 1989), a participant in Leadership Cincinnati and a Board member of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Poor Foundation.