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Kevin Camden Related Seminars and Products

Attorney

Camden Law Office, LLC

Kevin P. Camden is the owner of Camden Law Office in Downers Grove, Illinois. Camden Law Office, established in 2008, has a significant real estate practice, estate planning practice, and probate practice. Kevin graduated from Norther Illinois University with honors in 1994, earning his juris doctor from John Marshall Law School, Chicago, in 1997. In November 1997, Kevin was admitted to the Illinois bar.

Kevin is a member of the DuPage Couty real estate committee (co-chair 2022-23; chair

2023-24), an ISBA member, and a member of the real estate section council and task force on the unauthorized practice of law.

Also a labor arbitrator and mediator, Kevin draws over 27 years of experience in public sector labor and employment, particularly related to law enforcement.

Brian Clauss Related Seminars and Products

Arbitrator Mediator Attorney

Clauss ADR, Inc.

Brian Clauss is a neutral arbitrator and mediator who has served on numerous arbitration and mediation rosters and panels since 2004. Brian has issued over a thousand reasoned arbitration decisions and mediated hundreds of disputes in a wide range of industries and professions. A seasoned attorney who has conducted hundreds of trials, his legal career began as a prosecutor in Chicago, and he later represented Cook County, Illinois in labor, employment, and civil matters.

In 2009, Brian was inducted to the National Academy of Arbitrators and has served on a number of committees, including Chair for the Central Midwest Region and twice as Chair for the Program Committee for the Fall Education Conference.

Brian is also a frequent lecturer at local, national and international continuing legal education events. He has presented numerous training programs, webinars, and workshops for many law schools, bar associations and other organizations. Brian is a frequent author on a variety of legal topics. 

In addition to his dispute resolution practice, Brian was also the Executive Director of the Veterans Legal Support Center at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago – a pro bono legal clinic that provides assistance to veterans in VA benefit appeals. Brian is also part of the team that developed the new ADR Concentration at the University of Arizona Rogers School of Law. His civic and professional activities include: Labor & Employment Relations Association Board of Directors, Chicago and Arizona chapters, North Suburban Bar Association Board of Directors, Lake Forest College Alumni Board, Lutheran General Hospital Oncology Advisory Board, and the German American Cultural Center.

Joe Moriarty Related Seminars and Products

Arbitrator and Mediator

Moriarty Mediation

Joseph Moriarty is a labor arbitrator and mediator based in Chicago, Illinois. He is member of the FMCA, AAA, IELRB, IPLRB and NMB rosters of labor arbitrators.  For 37 years before becoming an arbitrator, Mr. Moriarty practiced labor law in several public sector roles and in the private sector.  

Rebekah Smith Related Seminars and Products

Arbitrator & Impartial Neutral

Seven Tree Solutions

Since 2005, Rebekah Smith, Esq., has served as an impartial neutral with a focus on labor and employment matters since 2020.  She is on the labor arbitration panels of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the American Arbitration Association, the Labor Relations Connection, and the National Mediation Board, the fact-finding and mediator panels of the Maine Labor Relations Board, and multiple permanent panels.  Ms. Smith is in her second term as a neutral Alternate Chair on the Maine Labor Relations Board.  She has provided arbitration and mediation training in various settings including AAA and the NAA/URI Schmidt Center Labor Arbitration Conference and has published several articles on mediation and arbitration.  She has completed the NAA New England Chapter Salon Training Program and has been mentored by multiple NAA arbitrators.  Ms. Smith is a recent Past Board President of LERA–Maine and remains a member of the Board of Directors and is also a member of National LERA and other local LERA chapters.