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Best Process Server
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Alternative Dispute
Resolution / Judicial
Enforcement
ADR Firm
Individual Mediator
Financial Markets Mediator
International Mediator
Individual Mediators by Firm
Judicial Enforcement Provider (Domestic)
Judicial Enforcement Provider (International)
Resolute Systems, L
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Joseph P. Spinola - Voted one of the "Top 2 Mediators"
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law, premises liability, insurance coverage, matrimonial, and financial matters.
Best ADR Firm
1. NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)
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3. JAMS
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6. Vic D’Ammorra
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Beldock
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array of civil–disputes
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lawyers and legal professionals in the New York Law Journal annual survey. Resolute has been named as a “Best
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Alternative Dispute Resolution /
Judicial Enforcement continued
Best Financial Markets Mediator
Top Individual Mediators by Firm
1. Stephen Crane – JAMS
2. Joe Spinola – Resolute Systems
3. John DiBlasi – NAM
4. Francis Conrad – NAM
4. Howard Beldock – Resolute Systems
5. Michael Young – JAMS
1.
2.
3.
NAM (14)
JAMS (4)
Resolute Systems (3)
Best International Mediator
1. John DiBlasi – NAM
2. Francis Conrad – NAM
3. Michael Young – JAMS
4. Peter Merani – NAM
5. Robert Adams – NAM
NAM VOTED “BEST ADR PROVIDER”
FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW
For the second year in a row, the New York Law Journal Reader Rankings Survey results
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members of NAM’s exceptional NY Metro Panel.
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slots as “Best International Mediator” and 2 of the top 5 in the “Best Financial Markets
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please contact:
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Rick Berger
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Resolute Congratulates Our Panelists in the
2012 New York Law Journal Survey
Hon. Joseph P. Spinola (Ret.) - Voted #1 Mediator
For the second consecutive year, Judge Joseph P. Spinola has been voted the #1 mediator in
the New York Law Journal Ranking Survey. Judge Spinola is the only mediator voted “Best
Individual Mediator” twice, both in 2011 and 2012.
Judge Spinola is a former Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. He has extensive
experience litigating and presiding over a wide array of civil disputes including labor law,
personal injury, complex commercial, legal and medical malpractice, products liability,
business, financial, premises liability, insurance coverage, and matrimonial matters.
Judge Spinola has the unique perspective of trying cases as a defense attorney, plaintiff’s
attorney and judge, which gives him the ability to understand all sides and aspects of the cases
he mediates. Joe Spinola has one of the highest settlement ratios. On the rare occasion a case
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