Deborah Rothman, a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College with a Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University as well as a law degree from NYU, is a successful, nationally-known neutral.  Having been a trial attorney at Manatt Phelps, run several businesses and started her family, Ms. Rothman became a full-time mediator and arbitrator in 1991.  She has been named a top ADR Professional by the Hollywood Reporter, The Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers, and serves on all of the major providers' panels--AAA (Large, Complex Cases; Commercial; Employment; Real Estate), CPR Institute, International Centre for Dispute Resolution, Judicate West, ADR Services and ARC, as well as FINRA (NASD) and Keybridge Foundation, and other non-profit and quasi-governmental agencies.  She has served as a neutral in thousands of mediations, settlement conferences and arbitrations in a wide variety of areas of the law including business, employment, intellectual property, securities, entertainment, malpractice, commercial real estate, probate and antitrust, involving countless industries.  With a remarkably high success rate, Rothman is respected by practicing attorneys and colleagues, and was elected a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, where she is also an active member of the Board.   As both a mediator and arbitrator, Rothman is appreciated by lawyers and clients alike for her warmth, sense of humor, persuasiveness, tenacity, diplomacy and commitment to excellence.  Rothman maintains an online calendar, as well as articles she has published, a CV and comments of attorneys who have used her as a neutral, at www.DeborahRothman.com.