Lynn H. Cole, President
Tampa, Florida, USA 

www.lynncole.com
lynncolembb@gmail.com

After over 26 years as a full time, “av-rated” attorney specializing in business, complex commercial and labor and employment cases, Lynn Cole is now a full-time dispute resolution professional. In the U.S., she has a domestic practice in mediation and arbitration and has served as a Special Master, a Special Magistrate and an SEC Receiver. She was appointed to the DRC (formerly Mediation Qualifications Board) by the Florida Supreme Court as a founding member, has served as the Chair of the Civil Justice Reform Act Commission for the federal court, and chaired the Thirteenth Judicial Nominations Commission responsible for selecting Judges in the State of Florida.

She is Florida-certified and Harvard-trained in mediation and is listed as a neutral by several prestigious ADR international organizations such as: the American Arbitration Association; the International Chamber of Commerce; the United States Council for International Business; the International Institute for Conflict Resolution and Prevention; the World International Property Organization in The Hague; and several others. In 2008, she was an invited attendee of the ABA ADR Section’s first International Conference held in The Hague.

Currently she serves as a Founding Member of the Board of Directors for Mediators Beyond Borders. She has served as a Mediation Specialist with USAID, successfully developing Court-based Pilot Mediation Programs in Bulgaria, Jordan and Kosovo. Currently, she is serving in Jordan as a Mediation Specialist to expand the pilot court related mediation program which she helped to develop in 2006. She has lectured internationally in Commercial Mediation; Ethics; and Basic and Advanced Mediation. She has taught mediation courses domestically for students in several Universities and Law Schools and internationally for judges and mediators from Jordan, Oman, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Croatia.  She has developed an on-line mediation service which permits up to six participants from anywhere in the world to mediate virtually, on the computer screen.

Educational Degrees

• Harvard College of Law, Program of Instructions for Lawyers, Mediation, June 2002
  
• John Marshall Law School, Juris Doctor Degree, 1975; President, Student Bar Association
  
• University of Maryland, Graduate School, Courses towards Master's Degree in Counseling
  
• University of Maryland, B.A. in Intellectual History

Publications

• Mediators Without Borders, The Caucus, Florida Academy of Professional Mediators, Vol. 18, March 2007
  
• A Journey in Mediation - The Bulgarian Path, The Federal Lawyer, Volume 53. No. 7, August 2006
  
• Mediation in the Middle East, Part 1, The Lawyer, Vol. 16, September 2006
  
• Mediation in the Middle East, Part 2, The Lawyer, Vol. 17, October 2006
  
• Musings of a Mediator Gone Global, Part 1, Vol. 16, October 2005
  
• Musings of a Mediator Gone Global, Part 2, Vol. 17, No. 3, November 2005
  
• Mediation-Coming into Your Community, The Lawyer, Vol. 15, No. 5, February 2005
  
• The Herb Goldberg Award, HCBA Lawyer, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1992
  
• Survey on Computer Crime in Florida, published by FDLE 1989