Mediator
Alternative Dispute Resolution Focus: real estate, general business, contract, closely-held company, employment, and workplace disputes.
ADR Experience: Mediate disputes in residential real estate including purchase contract, disclosure and procuring cause issues, general business, joint ownership, partnership, and dissolution matters, EEOC conflicts, family abuse, homeowner associations, and construction. Mediation Panelist, American Arbitration Association; EEOC mediator – Los Angeles & Orange Counties; Member, Mediator Panel - Los Angeles/Santa Barbara/Orange County Superior Courts; Mediator - Southern California Mediation Association; Member, Grievance and Professional Standards Committees, and Mediation Officer - Laguna Board of Realtors; Interboard Mediator - California Association of Realtors. Arbitrate disputes in general business including closely-held business, franchise operations, advertising agencies, sales organizations (distributors, representatives and dealers), principal/vendor disputes, commission issues, problems relating to faulty equipment, real estate buyer-seller and broker-agent disputes. Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association; Interboard Arbitrator, California Association of Realtors; Arbitrator, Laguna Board of Realtors. Facilitate settlement of partnership disagreements or dissolutions, difficult mergers, challenging organizational issues, matters requiring consensual agreement
ADR Training: Arbitration II 1/01, Award-Writing, 2/04, Arbitrator Training 3/99, Hearing Chair Training 4/93, Mediation, Not Litigation 12/93, Managing The Hearing 3/92, Advanced Arbitrator Techniques 9/89 – American Arbitration Association. “Mediating The Litigated Case” 6/95, Advanced Mediation Practice 4/96 - Pepperdine Law School. EEOC Mediation Skills Workshop 6/99, Resolving Workplace Conflicts 11/98, Basic Mediation Training 10/92 - The Mediation Center. Ethics in Mediation 4/96 - Soc. for Prof. in Dispute Resolution. Mediating Employment Disputes 4/00/01/02/03/04, Conducting Internal Investigations 9/99, Workplace Mediation 12/98 - So. Cal. Mediation Assoc. Consumer Law 3/00 - Calif. Dept. of Consumer Affairs. Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution I & II 4/01 - Los Angeles Superior Court. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District), Advanced Appellate Mediation, 05/05.
Work History: Owner, The Lovett Group, 1996-present (formerly Robert E. Lovett, Inc., 1976-1996); Managing Director, National Research Center, 1965-present; Founder/Board Member, Higgins, Marcus & Lovett, Inc., 1983-present; Board Member & Treasurer, Val d’Isere Homeowners Assoc., 1990-1994, 1998-1999; Board Member, C.W. Driver Contractors, 1965-1993; Vice-President & Board Member, KRLA (50KW AM radio station), 1976-1983; Principal, CFO, Director of Marketing/Creative Services, Boylhart, Lovett & Dean, Inc., 1952-1977 Calif. real estate broker since 1975 (GRI certification). Member, City of Laguna Beach Design Review Board, 1997-1999. Former Member, Calif. State Toll Bridge Authority.
Experience/Skills: Over 35 years’ experience working with international and domestic companies and organizations in service, manufacturing, and distribution industries dealing with business-to-business issues as owner, partner, and business consultant. Currently serving as consultant on management planning and strategy, contract development, human resource management and training, marketing and sales development including programs for dealer, representative, distributor and franchise groups. Additional consulting includes work with business partnerships and closely-held companies regarding buy-sell negotiations, mergers, partnership contracts, business and action plans and growth strategies. Real estate-related activities are generally residential-oriented, primarily as buyers’ broker, including on-going service on Laguna Realty Board grievance and professional standards committees.
Professional Associations/Licenses: American Arbitration Association; Association for Conflict Resolution; Calif. Dispute Resolution Council, Nat’l & Calif. Associations of Realtors (including Risk Management Institute); Laguna Board of Realtors; Southern California Mediation Association. Licensed California Real Estate Broker - #00469715.
Publications: "Resolving Closely-Held Company Conflicts Successfully Through Mediation and Facilitation,” Orange County Lawyer; “How Employees Make Company Strategy,” Journal of Business Communication; numerous other articles/speeches.
"My business experience and educational background provide an ideal mix to help me work productively with attorneys and their clients to settle difficult disputes. I’m patient, courteous, disciplined, and bring a sense of concern and empathy for those struggling to settle their difficulties. As mediator I practice both facilitative and evaluative techniques to seek settlements."
E-Mail: Bob@BobLovett.comTel: 949-494-2600
Fax: 949-497-6541
www.BobLovett.com
Education:
University of Michigan
(A.B. in Economics);
New York University
(M.B.A.
in Human Resources Management & Marketing
Univ. of Southern California
(Ph.D.
in Economics).
Graduate, Realtors Institute,
Nat’l Association of Realtors
(G.R.I. certification).