“Pure
charisma”
“Inventive solutions”
“Hugely
accomplished and experienced”
“Iconic”
“Direct,
tough”
“Pragmatic, commercial, firm and
assertive”
“Top in terms of gravitas...
the doyen... who made mediation happen... in the UK” Chambers Guide to the Legal
Profession, 2001-07
David Shapiro
is a solicitor Advocate, is Chairman of the Panel of Independent
Mediators, is accredited as a mediator by CEDR, is a member of the
Commercial Court’s Working Party on ADR, the Law Society’s
Commercial Mediation Panel, the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals,
CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution (New York), and a fellow of
the International Academy of Mediators.
David was formerly Director
and Chief Mediator of JAMS Endispute Europe and is currently Visiting
Fellow, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political
Science, where he teaches dispute resolution. He was organiser of
and lead-off speaker on ‘Introduction to ADR’, part of
the Judicial Studies Board’s Stage 1 seminars for more than
800 judges in England and Wales, and was an ADR consultant to the
Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation.
Since arriving
in the UK in 1996, David has successfully resolved more than 200
major disputes in this country and abroad and is acknowledged to
be one of the most experienced mediators now practising in the UK
and Europe. He has been a mediator for more than 24 years.
