David William Plant

216 Woodland Trace
New London, NH 03257 USA

From 1957 through 1998, Mr. Plant practiced law in New York City with Fish & Neave. Since January 1999, he has served as a mediator, arbitrator, special master, and teacher. Mr. Plant has served as a neutral in more than 300 mediations and arbitrations in the United States and internationally.

Mr. Plant holds degrees in engineering and law from Cornell University. He is a member of the bars of New York, the United States Supreme Court, various United States courts of appeals and district courts (including the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

While at Fish & Neave, Mr. Plant’s practice focused on trials and appeals in federal courts, proceedings before the ITC, FTC, and USPTO, and various ADR processes. He served as managing partner of Fish & Neave, chair and director of various professional committees and organizations, and on various ADR panels in both court-annexed and voluntary procedures.

He has served as a Special Master in U.S. district courts, as a mediator in more than 120 domestic and international disputes, and as an arbitrator in more than 110 ICC, Stockholm, UNCITRAL, AAA, CPR, WIPO, court-annexed, and ad hoc arbitrations.

He has written and spoken on ADR issues in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, Africa, and South America, and has led courses and workshops in arbitration and mediation at WIPO, UNITAR, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Franklin Pierce Law Center, and bar associations. Among his publications are Resolving International Intellectual Property Disputes, ICC 1999 (author), Guide To ADR For IP Disputes, AIPLA 1995 (editor), ADR International Applications, "ADR in the United States of America", ICC 2001, and various other chapters in texts and articles in journals.

He is an adjunct professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH, has taught at both the law school and the business school at Cornell University, and has taught, as a Senior Fellow, at the University of Melbourne Law School in 2002.

He has completed hundreds of hours of basic and advanced training as a neutral in mediation, negotiation and arbitration, both as a student and as an instructor.

Mr. Plant is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, and an accredited CEDR mediator. In 2006, Mr. Plant received the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s 2006 "Lawyer as Problem Solver Award." He has been listed in The Best Lawyers In America, Guide To The World’s Leading Experts & Lawyers In Commercial Arbitration, Guide To The World’s Leading Patent Law Experts, and Guide To the World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners.