The Resolution Group, LLP

Richard H. Steen, Esq.

Current Employer-Title:  Richard H. Steen, LLC, Attorneys at Law - Member

Profession:  Attorney - Construction

Work History:  Member, Richard H. Steen, LLC, Attorneys at Law, 2000-present; Vice President/Project Director/Senior Consultant, Hill International, Inc., 1981-00; Legislative Counsel, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1977-81; Staff Attorney, New Jersey General Assembly, 1976-77; Associate/Clerk, Law Offices of George K. Meier, Jr., Esq., 1974-76.

Experience:  Attorney in private practice emphasizing complex construction disputes and ADR. Former Vice President of a construction consulting firm providing project management; construction claims; and dispute resolution, litigation support, and related services in connection with assertion, defense, and resolution of construction and environmental claims and disputes. More than 90% of practice involves construction, representing public and private owners, developers, lenders, architects, engineers, general contractors, vendors, specialty contractors, and subcontractors. Experience in dispute management and resolution of substantial matters in litigation in federal/state courts, mediation, arbitration, and other ADR processes. Experience in public/private projects involving power, industrial, pharmaceutical, highway and mass transit, environmental, institutional, and commercial facilities.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Experience: Arbitrator since 1982 and mediator since 1987 for the American Arbitration Association. Has experience as an arbitrator or a mediator in more than 500 cases. Mediated cases have included complex construction, environmental, and commercial disputes involving public and private sector parties. Issues in dispute have included contract interpretation and performance, regulatory and enforcement actions, professional malpractice, agency representation agreements, vendor and equipment supply, insurance, and warranty coverage. Arbitrated cases include numerous multimillion-dollar, multi-party construction and environmental disputes and commercial, residential, and public construction arbitrations. Served as chairperson of a panel or sole arbitrator in substantial arbitration proceedings involving performance issues, design and construction defects, schedule delay and acceleration, cost overruns, financing disputes, differing site conditions, and constructive changes. Experienced as a partnering facilitator, including the AAA "Partnering Plus" program for the New York City School Construction Authority. Member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Standing Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution, Advisory Committee on Mediation Standards, and Civil Mediation Mentoring Committee. Member of the AAA construction and commercial arbitrator training faculty and a mediation trainer, presented dozens of ADR training seminars.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Training: Attended AAA Neutrals Conference and satisfied 2003 ACE requirements, Providence, 8/03; Attended Partnering Facilitation Workshop, St. Louis, MO, 6/03; AAA Arbitrator Update 2001; AAA Construction Train the Trainers Course, Phoenix, 12/00; attended AAA Mediator Conference, Chicago, 9/00; faculty, AAA Commercial Arbitrator Training, 4/00, 11/99, 6/99; AAA Commercial Train the Trainer Course, Atlanta, 11/98; faculty, AAA Construction Industry Arbitrator Training, New York, 7/00, 3/97, Minneapolis, 5/98, 9/97, Syracuse, 10/97, Rochester, 10/97, 11/96, Philadelphia, 7/97, Cleveland, 6/97, Southfield, 5/97, Atlanta, 5/97, Somerset, 12/96; AAA Advanced Construction Industry Mediator Training, McLean, Virginia, 3/98; AAA Construction Arbitrator Training, Somerset, 1997, 1/96; U.S. District Court Mediation Training, 4/96; various other ADR training

Professional Licenses:  Admitted to the Bar: New Jersey, 1975; U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1975; U.S. Patent Office, 1974; U.S. Supreme Court, 1995.

Professional Associations:  American Bar Association (Forum on Construction, Division I Steering Committee); New Jersey State Bar Association (Trustee; Dispute Resolution Section, Founding Chair; Construction and Public Contract Law Section, Past-Chair); New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association (Past Director; ADR Committee, Chair); Justice Marie L. Garibaldi Inn of Court (Master and President); Mercer County Bar Association; New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys; Construction Management Association of America.

Education:  Drexel University (BS-1972); Seton Hall University (JD-1975).

Publications and Speaking Engagements:  Editor, NEW JERSEY STATE BAR ASSOCIATION CONSTRUCTION AND PUBLIC CONTRACT LAW SECTION NEWSLETTER; "Construction and Public Contract Law," NEW JERSEY LAWYER, October 2002; THE CONSTRUCTION DISPUTE RESOLUTION FORMBOOK, Wiley Law Publications, Spring 1997; co-author, PARTNERING IN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, McGraw-Hill, 1995; editor, "ADR Comes of Age," NEW JERSEY LAWYER, August/September 1993; more than 100 seminars, lectures, programs, and articles in professional and industry publications on project management; arbitration, mediation and other ADR processes; engineering and construction law; dispute prevention; and management.

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