Terry Shumaker

Experience

1. Mediator, Arbitrator, Attorney

   Bernstein Shur

   Apr 2008 — Present

   Terry Shumaker has three decades of litigation, mediation and arbitration experience in the private and public sectors. He is a panel mediator and arbitrator for the state and federal courts, the American Arbitration Association, the New Hampshire PELRB and the N.H. Commission for Human Rights. Recognized for his wide variety of experience in corporate, commercial, labor and employment cases, Terry focuses his practice on alternative dispute resolution, administrative law and collective bargaining. Terry has mediated and arbitrated in the manufacturing, service, legal, medical, engineering, construction, accounting, higher education and non-profit fields as well as resolving other business and individual controversies involving executives, partnerships, unions, companies and not for profit entities by mediation or arbitration. Terry was recently inducted into the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and is a member of the Dispute Resolution Sections of the American and New Hampshire Bar Associations. He is also admitted to practice in Massachusetts. He was first listed in Best Lawyers in America in 1987, and was elected to the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers in 1996. He has taught mediation and arbitration at UNH School of Law and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is a frequrent speaker and writer on ADR topics.

Skills

• Mediation
• Criminal Law
• Labor & Employment Law
• Employment Law
• Nonprofits
• Public Policy
• Administrative Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Courts
• Family Law
• Appeals
• Civil Litigation
• Dispute Resolution
• Corporate Law
• Politics
• Political Campaigns
• Personal Injury
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Legal Research
• Arbitration
• Litigation