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Cathy Mondell is an effective neutral with decades of experience handling a wide variety of business litigation matters, and deep expertise in insurance, reinsurance, securities and valuation disputes. Cathy has been consistently recognized for ability to quickly assess case strengths and weaknesses, her thorough preparation and her use of a wide range of strategies to achieve successful results efficiently.

Representative ADR Matters:

  • Commercial disputes, including multi-party dispute including issues related to proper valuation and accounting for payments due, dispute regarding commercial suitability of service rendered, and a wide range of contract disputes

  • Insurance-related disputes, including claims for indemnification and defense, claims in subrogation, claims to captive insurers

  • Employment disputes, including multi-pronged employment dispute including allegations of racial discrimination, alleged oral agreement to terminate professional services, dispute between partnership and former employee, and workplace disputes among colleagues

  • Real estate and land disputes, including multi-pronged, multi-party family financial and land dispute, disputes regarding easements, disputes regarding zoning variances, and condo disputes

Representative Litigation Matters:

  • Multiple insurance coverage disputes regarding proper calculation of multi-million dollar business interruption claim components

  • Insurance coverage litigation involving $1.2 billion property damage claim in which application of policy sublimits was disputed

  • Representation of bio-pharmaceutical company in connection with two putative class actions asserting product liability claims

  • Representation of hospital group in connection with consolidated actions arising out of a multi-party real estate dispute

  • Securities litigation arising in the context of a stock split

  • Trademark litigation between two prominent law firms regarding the firm names, logos and marketing materials

  • Multiple internal investigations relating to potential accounting irregularities

Honors, Memberships and Professional Activities:

  • Senior Clinical Instructor, Lecturer on Law and Mediator, Harvard Mediation Program at Harvard Law School

  • Coaching Faculty for Mediation and Conflict Management courses for graduate-level programs at schools that have included Boston University, Tufts, Boston College, MIT, and University of California - Hastings, and executive education offerings through Harvard Negotiation Institute and Program on Negotiation

  • Advisory Board Member, Community Dispute Settlement Center, Cambridge, MA

  • Member, New England Association for Conflict Resolution

  • Admitted to practice before: Supreme Court of the United States; United States Courts of Appeal for the First Circuit, Second Circuit, and Fifth Circuit; federal and state courts for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Background and Education:

  • Ropes & Gray - Partner

  • Harvard Law School - J.D. with Honors

  • Princeton University - BSE magna cum laude in Civil Engineering and Operations Research, with a certificate in Engineering Management Systems