“Ms. Roth’s professionalism throughout the painstaking, three hour mediation, enabled both sides not only to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of each other’s case, but also enabled the parties to creatively craft a compromise that seemed impossible at the outset.”
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Dispute Resolution Experience
Bette J. Roth, Esq. has been on the forefront of alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") since 1989. She has mediated or arbitrated more than 750 cases over the past 17 years, involving a wide range of commercial, securities, employment, construction, real estate, and discrimination disputes. Bette is routinely engaged by both the plaintiffs' and defendants' bars, and settles more than 93% of the cases she mediates for her clients. Bette mediates and arbitrates cases of all types, and for the past several years has focused on employment, securities, commercial contracts, real estate, and construction claims. She is located in Metro-Boston, but frequently mediates for clients throughout New England, New York, the mid-west, and the west coast. In addition, Bette teaches mediation, provides fact-finding and case evaluations, facilitates large group communications, and publishes extensively. Bette also trains other mediators and arbitrators, as well as other professionals and students in negotiation, ethics, and communication.
Representative Matters
During the past twenty five years of practice in litigation, arbitration, mediation, and conciliation, Bette has handled cases involving closely held corporations (freeze-outs, severance, stock valuation), commercial issues (UCC and common law), contracts (commercial and business), consumer protection (93A), securities (customer, fraud, negligence, suitability, churning, unauthorized trading, intra-industry, shareholder class action, and leases (commercial equipment and property).
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
- 2009, 2008, 2007, & 2006: Recognized as a New England Super Lawyer in the field of ADR by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine
- Certified international mediator, International Mediation Institute (IMI) in the Hague
- 2001 John Dunlop Dispute Resolution Award for Innovative Systems Design, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- 2006-2008: Co-Chair, ADR Committee, Litigation and International Sections, Boston Bar Association
- 1992-Present: Executive Director of the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse (MMDC) (non-profit dispute provider of resolution services in Cambridge, MA)
- 1985: Massachusetts State Bar
- 1984 California State Bar
- 1984: Wisconsin State Bar
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- NEACR (New England Chapter for the Association of Conflict Resolution)
Lectures and ADR Trainings Conducted
Bette teaches mediation at Boston University School of Law. She also speaks frequently at CLE and Bar Association programs, either as a chairperson or moderator, or as a faculty member. Among others, she has participated in the following programs:
- "Securities Arbitration and Mediation" (faculty, Boston Bar Association, 2009)
- "Med-arb, Arb-med, Binding Mediation, Mediator’s Proposal, and other Hybrid Processes" (faculty, AAA Advanced Mediator Training, 2009)
- "Choosing the Right Dispute Resolution Process and Neutral" (faculty, MCLE 2009)
- "Resolving Neighbor Disputes" (faculty, MCLE 2009)
- "Resolving Closely Held Corporation Disputes", (faculty, MBA 2008)
- "Arbitration Practice and Update 2007" (chair, MCLE 2007)
- "Arbitrator Training (8-hours, co-chair, MCLE 2005)
- Numerous brown-bag lunch programs on mediation and arbitration as co-chair of ADR Committee (moderator, faculty 2005-2008)
- “Mediating Employment Cases” (faculty, BBA 2004)
- “What Every Lawyer Should Know About Arbitration” (chair, MCLE 2004)
- “Arbitration Practice and Update 2002” (co-chair, MCLE 2002)
Ms. Roth also helps to train students and other youths through Framingham Court Mediation Services, PAWS at Newton North High School, and Boston's Summer of Opportunity.
Books
- The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide (national 2-volume text with annual updates, copyright © 1993-2009 Thomson/West) (editor, co-author) - 1994 CPR Book Award Finalist
- Arbitration Practice and Update 2007 (MCLE 2007) (editor, co-author)
- Court Mandated Basic Training for Arbitrators (MCLE 2005) (editor, co-author)
- What Every Lawyer Should Know About Arbitration (MCLE 2004) (editor, co-author)
- Arbitration Practice and Update 2002 (MCLE 2002) (editor, co-author)
- Securities Arbitration: Special Report (Wiley Law Publications 1989) (co-author)
- Securities Litigation: State and Federal (CCLE 1988) (contributor)
Articles
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"Class Action Arbitrations: A First Circuit Update" (Boston Bar Journal, March/April 2008) (co-author)
- “Litigation Tactics in Mediation: Are They Ethical?” (Mass. Lawyer’s Weekly, February 2005)
- “Ethical Considerations for Advocates in Mediation” (Boston Bar Association, October 2004)
- “Ten Suggestions for Negotiation in Employment Mediation” (The Practical Lawyer, ALI-ABA, Oct. 2004, reprinted at the request of the AICPA for the 2006 edition of Selected Readings by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.)
- “Mediating Your Securities Disputes Successfully” (NSCP Currents, Winter 2004)
- “Maximizing the Potential of Mediation” (Mass. Lawyers Weekly, April 2004) (co-author)
- “Selecting the Right Organization and the Arbitrator” (Mass. Lawyers Weekly, February 2003)
- "Per Se Legality of Some Naked Restraints: A [Re]Conceptualization of the Antitrust Analysis of Cartelistic Organizations” (The Antitrust Bulletin, July 2000) (co-author)
Background and Education
- 2008: AAA continuing education training on award writing
- 2007: AAA continuing education training on chairing a panel
- 2006: AAA continuing education trainings on pro se arbitration
- 2005: AAA Arbitration II training
- 2005: Superior Court conciliation training
- 2003, 1991 AAA Arbitration I training
- 2001: FCMS advanced mediator training for housing disputes
- 2000: MCLE/MCAD discrimination prevention training certification (24 hrs)
- 1998: AG Office training in peer mediation trainer training
- 1997: FCMS basic mediation certification (35 hours)
- 1995-1996: mediator training/apprentice with Randy Wulff
- 1984: J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School (editor of The Wisconsin International Law Journal)
- 1981: B.A., Economics, cum laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 1981: “Certificat de Langue Français”, University of Paris, Sorbonne
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