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Biography of Mel
Wolovits
An
active, creative dealmaker; tirelessly seeking practical solutions
for business and personal disputes
Mel worked in his
family business, and with a Degree in Accounting, Masters Degree in
Education, Mel practiced law as a trial attorney for 34 years.
Mel, litigated a broad range of cases from antitrust, business,
employment, professional liability, probate to collection and
personal injury cases.
Since 2007, Mel has been a full-time
mediator. Mel has mediated over 1,600 complex, contentious,
and one issue cases involving 2-14 parties.
If your client has a
complex, contentious, intractable case to resolve, or a single issue
case to resolve, CALL MEL, to Mediate. Mel will work-hard, and
will creatively and tenaciously help the parties until the dispute
is settled.
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Education & Training |
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FINRA
Arbitration Training |
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Harvard Law School, Negotiation Workshop, 2004 |
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B.S., Business / Accounting, Miami University |
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M.S., Education Case Western Reserve University |
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J.D., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State
University |
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Advanced
Mediation Training and CME, 1992-present |
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Areas
of Legal and Mediation Experience |
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Business Torts / Restraint of Trade |
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Business Relationship Disputes |
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Employment |
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Securities Fraud |
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Insurance |
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Professional Malpractice |
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IP - Copyright / Trademark / Unfair Competition |
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Construction |
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Probate / Guardianship / Will Contests |
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Personal Injury / Wrongful Death |
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Government / Condemnation / Code Enforcement |
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Accomplishments |
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A 34 year
trial-attorney in state, federal, and appellate courts in
Texas, Ohio, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma, Mr. Wolovits
settles complex and contentious disputes. He is a creative
dealmaker who tirelessly seeks practical solutions for
business and personal disputes. He was a Board Certified
Trial Attorney TBLS (Ret.) and began mediating in 1993. In
2007 Mel became a Full-Time Mediator. He has mediated over
1,600 cases.
Mr. Wolovits has a broad range of work experiences that
began as a youth in his Family Business, and continued on
with Accounting, teaching Elementary School, and instructing
College Level Business Law classes, and as an Adjunct
Professor of Law, Negotiation, at UNT Dallas College of Law. He also has extensive
work experience as an FTC Trial Attorney, FTC Assistant
Regional Director, and Managing Partner of a Law Firm which
litigated and tried business, employment, probate and
professional liability and personal injury cases.
Mr. Wolovits is an invited member of the National Academy of
Distinguished Neutrals, AV- AAM Attorney-Volunteer of the
Year-(2008), Past President- Association of
Attorney-Mediators, and voted- Best Lawyers in America-
Mediation (2009-2018), and D Magazine Best Lawyers-ADR
(2014-2018).
Mel and his wife, Ann, a Relationship Coach, have been
married for 50 years and have 2 married children. Mel and Ann
are the proud grandparents of 5 beautiful granddaughters and
one handsome grandson. |
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"Mel and I have had complex cases against each other in
the past (medical malpractice; catastrophic injury/death
matter) so I was already aware of his expertise and high
credentials
as a litigator. What I did not know until our mediation, was
that Mel was such a terrific
mediator. Although we hit Mel with a complicated securities
case with differing levels of
twists and turns, he immediately
grasped the issues and
focused in on key nuances that
ultimately resulted in a
favorable settlement. Mel and his staff
were at all times
attentive, involved, and engaging. Certainly
I will be using
his services again in the future."
Doug Williams, Esq.
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