Mark Bunim

Biography

MARK J. BUNIM is an advance trained mediator (by the CPR Center for Dispute Resolution and the New York State Supreme Court Commercial Division) and Arbitrator and an attorney licensed to practice in the Courts of New York and the United States Courts since 1976. Mr. Bunim has conducted numerous mediations and arbitrations concerning insurance coverage issues, securities issues and Directors and Officers liability. He has mediated attorney and accountant professional liability disputes, partnership disputes, real estate related disputes, World Trade Center property-loss and business interruption recovery disputes. In addition, Mr. Bunim mediates and arbitrates commercial, contractual and business/ partnership matters and has an expertise in family business and estate conflicts. He has mediated complex tort cases using structured settlements. Mr. Bunim is a member of the Panel of Mediators of the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York; the Panel for the Superior Courts of New Jersey; the Panel of Commercial Arbitrators and Mediators of FedArb.; the panel of Resolute Systems, Inc.; the Panel for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and serves on the ADR Committee for the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance as a sub-committee chairman . He is active in the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and its Mediation Committees.  From 1996 to 2005 he had been a partner in Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, which became Bryan Cave, LLP (in 2002) focusing on commercial litigation, insurance related and coverage cases, and alternative dispute resolution. He was co-leader of the insurance recovery and risk management litigation group. Before that, from 1983-1996, he was managing partner at Ohrenstein and Brown, a New York City law firm specializing in insurance, complex tort and commercial related disputes. Mr. Bunim graduated from New York University, summa cum laude, in 1971 and Rutgers University School of Law (1975). He has spoken at meetings, conventions, and seminars around the country on ADR and insurance issues, i.e. The Claims and Litigation Management Alliance Annual Convention in New Orleans, La., March 2011; The New York State Bar Assn. Elder Law meeting, White Plains, N.Y., November 2010; The New York State Bar Assn. Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting, January 2009; the American Bar Assn. Insurance Coverage Section meeting in Tucson, AZ. 2007; and has appeared on radio, television and in the press, talking about risk management and insurance coverage and recovery and Structured Settlements. He has appeared on Ringler Radio and multiple occasions. He has authored articles on Mediation in many publications including the New York Law Journal. 

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