Bette J. Roth, Esq.

Newton, Massachusetts

LEGAL EXPERIENCE: Bette Roth is a full time mediator and arbitrator, and teaches mediation at Boston University School of Law. Before focusing her practice exclusively on dispute resolution in 1992, Ms. Roth was a trial lawyer for many years, working with the U.S. Securities and exchange Commission and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco.

Ms. Roth has mediated or arbitrated more than 750 cases involving a wide range of commercial, employment, securities, construction, real estate, professional malpractice, and family business/real property ownership disputes. Among others, she is a panelist with American Arbitration Association (mediation and arbitration), CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, FINRA, REBA, and Case Closed and Massachusetts Dispute Resolution Services. She is certified as a mediator by the International Mediation Institute in the Hague. During the years 2001-2008, she was also the Executive Director of the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse in Cambridge.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ASSOCIATIONS: Ms. Roth has spoken extensively on mediation and arbitration for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), the Boston Bar Association (where she served as co-chair of the ADR Committee of the Litigation Section), and Ali-ABA, and has trained arbitrators through MCLE. She has published numerous articles on mediation and arbitration through Mass. Lawyers Weekly, The Practical Lawyer (ALI-ABA), the Boston Bar Journal, PIAB, NSCP Currents, MCLE, CCLE, and on antitrust through The Antitrust Bulletin.

Ms. Roth is the primary editor and contributing author of the national two-volume text, The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide (copyright 1993-2009 Thomson/West), a finalist for the 1994 CPR book award. This text is widely cited by litigants and judges, and has become a staple in most law libraries. Ms. Roth publishes its yearly updates, which has kept her on the forefront of ADR developments for the past 16 years. Recognized for her work in dispute resolution, in 2008, 2007 and 2006, Ms. Roth was named a “Super Lawyer” in the field of ADR by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine. In 2001, she received the John Dunlop Dispute Resolution Award from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for her work in mediation.