Bette J. Roth, Esq.

Bette J. Roth, Esq., is a full time mediator and arbitrator, and teaches the seminar, "Mediation: Theory and Practice" at Boston University School of Law. Before focusing her practice exclusively on dispute resolution in 1992, Ms. Roth was a trial lawyer for many years, working with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco. Ms. Roth has mediated or arbitrated more than 700 cases involving a wide range of real estate, commercial, employment, securities, construction, professional malpractice, and family business/real property ownership disputes. Among others, she is a panelist with the American Arbitration Association (mediation and arbitration), FINRA (mediation), and Case Closed. During the years 2001–2008, she was also the Executive Director of the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse in Cambridge.

Ms. Roth has spoken extensively on mediation and arbitration for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), the Boston Bar Association (where she is currently the co-chair of the ADR Committee of the Litigation Section), and the ALI-ABA, and has trained arbitrators through MCLE. She has published numerous articles on mediation and arbitration through Mass. Lawyers Weekly, The Practical Lawyer (ALI-ABA), the Boston Bar Journal, PIABA, NSCP Currents, MCLE, CCLE, and on antitrust through The Antitrust Bulletin.

Ms. Roth is the primary editor and contributing author of the national two-volume text, The Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Guide (copyright © 1993-2007 Thomson/West), a finalist for the 1994 CPR book award. This text is widely cited by litigants and judges, and has become a staple in most law libraries. Ms. Roth publishes its yearly updates, which has kept her on the forefront of ADR developments for the past 15 years.

Recognized for her work in dispute resolution, in 2007 as well as in 2006, Ms. Roth was named a "Super Lawyer" in the field of ADR by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine. In 2001, she received the John Dunlop Dispute Resolution Award from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for her work in mediation.

 
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, cum laude, and the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Ms. Roth received mediation training from Randy Wulff in San Francisco, and Framingham Court Mediation Services. She was trained to arbitrate by the American Arbitration Association in San Francisco and Boston.