Biography
Michael E. Dickstein has been a mediator, arbitrator, and negotiation/ADR teacher for almost 30 years. He has mediated complex disputes in most major cities across North America (including class action, employment, commercial, contract, IP, real estate, personal injury, tort, discrimination, malpractice, construction defect, franchise, partnership, defamation and other cases). These included approximately 800 class actions, with class sizes ranging from over 470,000 class members to fewer than 100. Examples of Mr. Dickstein’s work include: mediating a series of more than 20 interconnected wage and hour class actions, with over a billion dollars in dispute; mediating an international trademark dispute involving the wine labels of leading American and European wine producers; mediating a discrimination class action, involving a university’s sports programs, facilities and opportunities for women; facilitating contract negotiations between Canada’s theater actors and major theater owners; mediating the intellectual property, tangible property, contract, and discrimination issues between a well-known dance company and its artistic director; mediating novel claims related to COVID-19; mediating the dissolution of a leading medical partnership; being chosen to help arbitrate, mediate and allocate settlement funds with respect to thousands of sex and race discrimination claims against several major financial institutions; and facilitating the discussions between a nationwide non-profit, its board, leadership and staff.
Mr. Dickstein has taught mediation, negotiation and ADR at Stanford since 2006, and worldwide (including in the US, Canada, China, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and St. Lucia). For more details, see www.DicksteinDisputeResolution.com.
