ODS is one of the leading state mediation offices in the country, mediating over 100 cases each year for the state and federal courts in New Jersey.  As Director of ODS, Eric has personally served as a court-appointed mediator in over 400 cases involving a wide range of topics including: insurance coverage, environmental clean-up, employment, construction, personal injury, malpractice, partnership and contract.

Significant cases mediated by Eric include: 1) a $500 million environmental insurance coverage dispute between a fortune 500 company and 20 of its insurance carriers; 2) multi-jurisdictional litigation resulting from a major pipeline oil spill in the waters between New York and New Jersey; and 3) a $100 million class action involving the proposed demolition of high-rise public housing in Newark, N.J.  Eric received the CPR Legal Program’s National Award for “Outstanding Practical Achievement in Dispute Resolution” for his mediation of the Newark housing dispute.

In addition, Eric has taught hundreds of judges, attorneys and state agency managers negotiation, mediation and settlement techniques, including New Jersey Superior Court Judges, Administrative Law Judges,staff in the Office of the Attorney General, State Police and attorneys serving on the New Jersey State Court Mediation Roster. Eric has also taught courses on mediation at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Seton Hall and Rutgers law schools. He has been a member of three federal court mediation panels, the NJ Supreme Court Committee on Complimentary Dispute Resolution and has spoken at both the Third Circuit Judicial Conference and the NJ Judicial College.