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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006600" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>PANELISTS</B><B>                    </B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#BBBBBB" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>PANELISTS</B></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="JUDICIAL RESOLUTIONS "><U><B>JUDICIAL RESOLUTIONS </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABOUT JUDICIAL RESOLUTIONS"><U><B>ABOUT JUDICIAL RESOLUTIONS</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WHAT CLIENTS SAY "><U><B>WHAT CLIENTS SAY </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PANELISTS"><U><B>PANELISTS</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REFERENCES"><U><B>REFERENCES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION"><U><B>MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION"><U><B>MEDIATION</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ARBITRATION"><U><B>ARBITRATION</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FEES"><U><B>FEES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WHY CHOOSE JRI"><U><B>WHY CHOOSE JRI</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LOCATIONS"><U><B>LOCATIONS</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MOUNTAIN OFFICE"><U><B>MOUNTAIN OFFICE</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ARTICLES"><U><B>ARTICLES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS"><U><B>FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HOW TO SCHEDULE A CASE"><U><B>HOW TO SCHEDULE A CASE</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CONTACT US"><U><B>CONTACT US</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0623dbe0.jpg" border=0 width="317" height="190" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><U>Primary Mediators and Arbitrators</U></I></div> <bR> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Eugene McGuire</U>, Attorney & Founder of Judicial Resolutions</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Thomas W. Ossola</U>, Retired Chief Judge, 9th Judicial District</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Richard H. Hart</U>, Retired Judge, 5th Judicial District</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Nesa Hassanein</U>, Attorney and Former General Counsel</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">J. Stephen Phillips</U>, Retired Chief Judge, Denver District Court</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Juanita L. Rice,</U> Retired Presiding Domestic Trial Judge, Arapahoe, Douglas, and Elbert Counties</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">John Coombe</U>, Attorney and Former Vice Chancellor, University of Denver</div> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f033660000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">James B. Lapin</U>, Colorado Super Lawyer</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Other panelists are available upon request.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I><U>EUGENE F. MCGUIRE</U></I></div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="08090a00.jpg" border=0 width="144" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <bR> <div> Gene McGuire is the founder and president of Judicial Resolutions.  With over thirty five years of legal, business, and judicial experience, Mr. McGuire is a very experienced mediator and arbitrator, having successfully and personally settled hundreds of personal injury, real estate, divorce, employment, contract, and business cases in the past twelve years.  He currently serves as a Judge in the Central City Municipal Court, the oldest continually sitting court in Colorado.</div> <bR> <div> Mr. McGuire trained as a mediator and dispute resolution professional at Harvard Law School, Pepperdine University School of Law (advanced mediation course), and the Center for Dispute Resolution in Boulder.  He has completed over 200 hours of training in mediation and ADR.   He has been a member of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution, the American Bar Association's Section of Dispute Resolution, the Colorado Bar Association's ADR Section, and the Colorado Judicial Institutes' ADR Coalition.   He has written numerous articles and made presentations to various groups including the Colorado Society of CPA's, Mountain States Employers Council, EEOC, Colorado Continuing Legal Education, Colorado Organization of Conciliators and Mediators, and the Colorado Trial and Defense Lawyers Associations.  He was chairman of the 1st Annual ADR Symposium presented by the Colorado Bar Association.</div> <bR> <div> After graduation from the University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University School of Law, he practiced law with a large Chicago firm.  He served in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps, from 1968-1972, as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and a judge in the United States and Vietnam.</div> <bR> <div> Upon leaving the Army, he joined the large regional law firm of Holland & Hart, in which he became a partner.  His practice emphasized labor and employment law and civil litigation.  He represented clients in administrative hearings, trials, appeals, arbitration, and negotiations.  He left Holland & Hart to accept an unsolicited offer to become senior vice president of the largest bank and bank holding company in Colorado.  He later returned to private law practice with McGuire, Cornwell & Blakey, and, prior to founding Judicial Resolutions, was a director of Cortez, Friedman & Coombe.  His law practice has emphasized representing both plaintiffs and defendants in civil litigation and dispute resolution and clients in business transactions.  He has an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the most respected source of authoritative and dependable information about members of the legal community in the United States.  ("An  'AV' rating reflects an attorney who has reached the heights of professional excellence.  He or she has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity.")</div> <bR> <div> Mr. McGuire has been active in the Colorado community, having served on the boards of trustees of such organizations as the Denver Bar Association, Mental Health Association of Colorado, Leadership Denver Association, Rocky Mountain Heart Consortium, and Third Way Center<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006633" FACE="Arial" >.</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:mcguire@judicialresolutions.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:mcguire@judicialresolutions.com"><U>mcguire@judicialresolutions.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><U>THOMAS W. OSSOLA</U></I></div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="082bec20.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="194" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> Tom Ossola graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in Political Science and a Juris Doctor Degree .  He is admitted to the bar of the State of Colorado and the Federal District Court of Colorado.  </div> <div> Judge Ossola served in the United States Air Force from 1967 to 1971.  From 1972 to 1975  he served as a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tagucigalpa, Honduras.  He has served as a Deputy District Attorney for the 9th and 10th Judicial Districts and as a Deputy State Public Defender for the 15th and 16th Judicial Districts.  He maintained a general law practice in Glenwood Springs, CO, and was appointed to the Garfield County District Court in 1976.  In 1980 he was appointed to the District Court for the 9th Judicial District.  </div> <div> Judge Ossola was appointed Chief Judge of the District and Water Judge for Water Division 5 in 1990.  He retired from the District Court bench in November 2004.  He is a member of the 9th Judicial District and the Pitkin County Bar Associations.  </div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:twossola@comcast.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:twossola@comcast.net"><U>twossola@comcast.net</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><U>RICHARD H. HART</U></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="09195e50.jpg" border=0 width="149" height="229" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dick Hart was born in Denver and is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Colorado Law School.  Before his appointment to the District Court in the Fifth Judicial District (Summit, Clear Creek, Lake, and Eagle Counties) in 1980, he practiced primarily civil law in the law firms of Cool & Phillips in Colorado Springs, Holland & Hart in Denver, McLaughlin & Hart in Vail, and in his own firm.  He retired in 2006 and currently serves as  Senior Judge upon appointment of the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.</div> <div> Judge Hart is a member of the American Bar Association and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.  He belongs to the Colorado Bar Association, is a Life Fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation, and was formerly a vice-president and member of the Board of Governors of the CBA.  He also belongs to the Continental Divide Bar Association, having served in all of its executive positions.  <A HREF="mailto:richardhart06@comcast.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:richardhart06@comcast.net"><U>richardhart06@comcast.net</U></A></div> <div> <I><U>NESA E. HASSANEIN</U></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#006666" FACE="Arial" ><I> </I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08b96c80.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Nesa Hassanein graduated in 1976 from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.  She enrolled in law school at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City and graduated <I>cum laude</I> in 1982.  She recently completed a forty-hour course for mediators at Pepperdine University.</div> <div> Following law school, Ms. Hassanein joined the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom where she was a member of the corporate department.  She remained with the firm for more than nine years and then moved to Denver, Colorado with her family. Upon moving to Denver, Ms. Hassanein joined the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck, PC as a shareholder and started their corporate department which grew significantly while she was there and continues to thrive today.  She then became a partner in the Denver office of Morrison & Foerster LP. </div> <div> While in private practice in Denver, Ms. Hassanein represented what was then only a small regional retail sporting goods company, Gart Sports. When the company went public, Ms. Hassanein was invited to go in-house as the company's lawyer.  Ms. Hassanein joined Gart Sports in July 1998 as Vice President and Corporate Counsel, and was named Senior Vice President and General Counsel in June 2000. Ms. Hassanein became Executive Vice President of The Sports Authority, Inc., the successor to Gart Sports, in August 2003, in addition to her role as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, which she held since June 2000. As a key member of the management team and its Chief Legal Officer, Ms. Hassanein led the company through two major acquisitions, one “merger of equals”, public offerings and a “going private” transaction.  Today, The Sports Authority is a national sporting goods retail chain that operates approximately 450 stores in 45 states and has annual net revenues in excess of $2.5 billion.</div> <div> In addition, Ms Hassanein spends a significant amount of her time serving on Boards of charitable organizations, such as the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver and Variety Children's Lifeline.</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:nesa@judicialresolutions.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:nesa@judicialresolutions.com"><U>nesa@judicialresolutions.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><U>J. Stephen Phillips</U></I></div> <div> <I><U><IMG SRC="08e96c20.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="194" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></I></div> <div> Steve Phillips retired in 2010 as a Denver District Court Judge after 27 years on the Bench.  He spent several years in each of the principal divisions--criminal, general civil, and domestic relations.  He has been a member of numerous Colorado Bar Association committees, the Colorado Supreme Court standing committees on Appellate Rules, Criminal Rules and Jury Instructions, and was presiding judge of the domestic cases pilot project.  He has authored articles on torts and contracts and received the Denver Bar Association Award of Excellence in 2000.</div> <bR> <div> After graduating from the University of Colorado School of Law, Judge Phillips entered the United States Army's Judge Advocate General Corps and served from 1969-1974 in the United States and Vietnam.  He then joined the Colorado State Attorney General's Office where he was Chief of the Appellate Section and First Assistant (now called "Deputy") in charge of the Enforcement Section (consisting of the civil trial lawyers, the appellate section, the consumer protection section, the medicaid fraud section, the Organized Crime Strike Force, and the anti-trust unit).  From 1982 until he took the Bench, he was Assistant United States Attorney primarily prosecuting white-collar crimes. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><U>JUANITA L. RICE</U></I></div> <div> <I><U><IMG SRC="09095c80.jpg" border=0 width="149" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></I></div> <div> Juanita Rice served in the Colorado Judicial Department from 1987 through 2009 when she retired. She was appointed by the Colorado Governor as a District Court Judge in April of 2000 and was Presiding Domestic Trial Judge for the Eighteenth Judicial District (Arapahoe, Douglas, and Elbert Counties) from 2001 through January, 2009. Prior to this she served as a District Court Magistrate in Arapahoe, Douglas and El Paso Counties. Additionally, she lived and worked in rural Cambodia as a Senior Legal Advisor from 1995 to 1997, with the Cambodian Court Training Project funded by USAID.  </div> <bR> <div> Juanita earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of Minnesota in 1979 and her Juris Doctorate from the University Of Colorado School Of Law in 1981.  After completing law school and before joining the District Court bench, she worked as a trial lawyer in Colorado Springs with an emphasis on family law issues.</div> <bR> <div> For more than 20 years Judge Rice has dedicated her professional career efforts primarily to family and juvenile law cases.  She has regularly been invited to provide presentations to professionals in the field as well as citizens at large throughout Colorado, on juvenile and domestic law topics including the positive effects of mediation on the divorce process. Her own continuing education included certificates in conflict management and alternative dispute resolution and most recently 45 hours of high conflict mediation training.</div> <bR> <div> During the course of her legal career, Judge Rice has received recognition for her service to the legal community and the community at large in the form of awards from the Universities of Minnesota and Colorado as well as the El Paso and Arapahoe County Bar Associations, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), the Girl Scouts of America and Children's Advocates. She was honored as the Colorado State Judicial Officer of the Year in Child Support Enforcement.  Judge Rice remains a life member of Girl Scouts USA and has served as a Cadette troop leader and motivational speaker for the Wagon Wheel Council of Girl Scouts. </div> <div> rice@judicialresolutions.com</div> <bR> <div> <I><U>JOHN D. COOM</U></I><I><U>BE</U></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="0849f760.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="118" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> John Coombe retired in 2006 as the Vice Chancellor for Intellectual Property and Events at the University of Denver.  Prior to this appointment, he was the founding partner of the Denver law firm of Coombe & Overhardt.  His practice focused on intellectual property, sports, entertainment, and corporate law.  Previously, Mr. Coombe was a shareholder and director of Cortez, Friedman & Coombe, and, from 1972-1989, he was a partner in the large regional firm of Holland & Hart where he founded and chaired the firm's Intellectual Property Department and Advanced Technology Group.  </div> <bR> <div> Mr. Coombe's substantive expertise includes trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, marketing, distribution, and media and performance rights.  He is highly qualified in the area of advanced technology, including computer systems, software development, consulting agreements, technology licensing and development and research agreements.  He also has substantial experience in sports and entertainment law representing teams, individuals athletes, artists, and governing organizations.  Mr. Coombe also has substantial experience in the labor and employment field including collective bargaining, executive employment contracts, grievance systems, and wrongful discharge issues. </div> <bR> <div> Mr. Coombe is a member of the American, Colorado and Denver Bar Associations, and is listed in <I>Who's Who In American Law</I>.  In 1993, he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law where he taught a class in sports law.  He has lectured extensively and has published numerous articles on topics related to trade secrets, employment and personnel management techniques.  Mr. Coombe is also very active in the community.  He has been the vice-chairman with the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Trustee of the Pro Rodeo Hall of Champions, and Committee Chairman of Boy Scout Troop 444.</div> <div>   </div> <div> Mr. Coombe received his law degree from George Washington University, where he graduated with honors in 1971, and he received an undergraduate degree from Williams College.</div> <bR> <div> <I><U>JAMES B. LAPIN</U></I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="06878b40.jpg" border=0 width="120" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Jim Lapin obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in 1969 and his law degree from the University of Denver in 1972.  He is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in Colorado, and is admitted in the United States Supreme Court, as well. He is a member of the Denver and Colorado Bar Associations, and a member of the litigation and family law sections of those associations. He has the highest rating from his peers as independently reported to Martindale Hubbell.</div> <bR> <div> Mr. Lapin concentrates his practice in the fields of family law, civil and commercial litigation, personal injury litigation, and creditor's rights.  He has extensive trial experience including trials to the court and jury trials, and as well, extensive arbitration experience both as an arbitrator and as counsel. He has tried hundreds of cases in Colorado and across the United States.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>          </I><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#006633" FACE="Arial" ><I>JRI </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#006633" FACE="Arial" ><I>THE Alternative in ADR </I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>