Richard Chernick

Richard Chernick

Website https://www.jamsadr.com/chernick/

Biography

Richard Chernick is Vice President and Managing Director of JAMS’ Arbitration Practice; he has conducted more than 1,300 large and complex arbitrations and close to 1,000 mediations under various rules and before major administering institutions, both domestic and international (and is a member of several panels of arbitrators for major international institutions).

He is the author of leading texts on ADR, Employment ADR and international arbitration and mediation. Richard is a former Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association and the Founding President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. He served as the ABA’s Advisor to the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act. Adjunct professor previously at Pepperdine Law School; UCLA Law School and, most recently, USC Gould School of Law (and Chair of its ADR Program Advisory Board). He was recently honored as the first recipient of the California Lawyers Association’s ADR Hall of Fame award.