SUSAN PERIN
Susan G. Perin
Attorney at Law
3207 Mercer Street
Houston,
Texas
77027
Website:
susanperin.com
Email:
susan@susanperin.com
Mediation
Telephone
(713) 572-5000
Arbitration
Facsimile
(713) 551-9301
ADR EXPERIENCE:
Full-time Mediation and Arbitration Practice
MEDIATION:
Attorney - Mediator since 1991.
Mediated 1500+ cases in all areas of the law including
commercial, business, construction, contracts, DTPA, real
estate, insurance, personal injury, employment (wrongful
termination, covenants not to compete, employment agreements,
intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault and
battery, breach of contract, defamation, false imprisonment,
Title VII, ADA, ADEA, USERRA, FMLA, ERISA, FLSA, Texas
Commission on Human Rights Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Texas
Workers’ Compensation Act), business dissolution, buy-sell
agreements, franchise agreements, bankruptcy, copyright, trade
secrets, premises liability, products liability, medical
malpractice, legal malpractice, health law, securities,
environmental, oil and gas, probate, and appellate.
Contract mediator, 2001-2005, for the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, San Antonio District Office, mediating
employment cases in many cities in Texas.
Adjunct Professor, Mediation, 1997-2003, University of Houston Law
Center
Basic Mediation Training - January 1991
Advanced Mediation Training - September 1991, 1996
Family Law Mediation Training - October 1993
ARBITRATION:
Arbitrator since 1990 - appointed as arbitrator in over 175
cases, either as sole
arbitrator or on panels of 3 arbitrators, often serving
as Chair of panel.
Serve as Panel Member on the Large Complex Case, Commercial,
Employment, Construction, and Consumer Panels of the American
Arbitration Association.
Experience in arbitrations involving over ten parties,
complex issues, and millions of dollars.
AAA Construction Industry Arbitrator Training Workshop, Houston, July 1997
AAA/USATF Doping Grievance Arbitrator Training,
Houston, June 2000
AAA Employment Arbitrator II Training,
Miami, January 2002
Arbitrator II Update, April 2002
LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
Licensed November 1980, represented plaintiffs and defendants in
litigation prior to full-time adr practice:
Law Office of Susan G. Perin - 1986-1998, 2000-present; Levin &
Kasner, P.C. - Of Counsel, 1998-2000; Attorney with Hirsch &
Westheimer, 1984-1986; Attorney with Foreman & Dyess, 1981-1984;
Briefing Attorney, Court of Appeals, Fourteenth Supreme Judicial
District, 1980-1981.
EDUCATION:
Legal: South
Texas College
of Law, J.D. 1980, summa cum laude, graduated first in class.
Undergraduate:
Newcomb
College
of Tulane University, B.A., 1971, cum laude.
INSTRUCTOR AND TRAINER:
Adjunct Professor, Mediation, 1997-2003, University of Houston Law
Center
Faculty and Instructor, Attorney-Mediators Institute, 1993-98,
trained over 800 attorney-mediators.
Instructor, Association of Attorney-Mediators,1996, 1998, 1999 -
Advanced Mediation Training.
SPEAKER and/or AUTHOR :
Author – “Volunteer Mediation: Using Your Professional Skills to
Give Back,” Texas Bar Journal, July 2007.
Speaker - Arbitration Panel - Arbitration of Securities,
Construction, and Employment Cases, Houston Bar Association,
January 13, 2005
Speaker - “Mediator Ethics in Labor and Employment Law
Disputes,” Houston Bar Association Alternative Dispute
Resolution Section Meeting, May 11, 2004.
Speaker - “Ethical Issues in Mediation of Labor and
Employment Matters,” Houston Bar Association
Labor and Employment Section Meeting, November 10, 2003.
Co-author - “Mediating Construction Disputes: What Works and
What Doesn’t,” Dispute Resolution Journal, American Arbitration
Association, May-July 2003.
Speaker/Author - “Nuts and Bolts of Arbitration,”
Houston
Bar Association Continuing
Legal Education Seminar, January 9, 2003.
Speaker - “Mediation and Arbitration of Employment Disputes,”
Texas
Association of Business,
Houston,
Texas, October 17, 2002
Speaker - “Mediation and Arbitration in Business Cases,”
Institute
of Management
Accountants, Houston, Texas,
September 19, 2002.
Speaker/Co-author - “Mediation of Construction Cases – What
Works and What Doesn’t,”
State Bar of Texas, 15th Annual Construction Law
Conference, San Antonio, Texas, February 14-15, 2002, and State
Bar of Texas Annual Meeting, Construction Law Section, June 14,
2002.
Speaker- “ADR in the
Employment Context,” Houston Management Lawyers Forum, Houston, Texas,
October 25, 2001.
Speaker
- “A Morning Briefing on Alternative Dispute Resolution Program”
by EEOC, San Antonio, Texas,
June 20, 2001.
Speaker - “When a Mediator is Asked to Arbitrate,” Association
of Attorney-Mediators, Austin, Texas,
May 4, 2001
Speaker/Author - “You’ve Been Selected as an Arbitrator --- Now
What? Navigating
the Murky Waters of Disclosure,” Houston Bar Association,
Alternative Dispute Resolution Section Seminar on Nuts and Bolts
of Arbitration, April 6, 2000
Speaker - “Mediation and Arbitration in the Construction
Industry,” American Institute of Architects, April 3, 2000.
Speaker/Author - “Bringing Closure to the Wrongful Termination
Claim,” American
Arbitration Association Seminar, Denver, Colorado,
March 10, 2000.
Speaker - “Settling the Mass Tort Case, Modeling and Other
Issues,” Seminar on Environmental Litigation Trends for the Year
2000, Houston Bar Association, December 6, 1999
Speaker/trainer - Advanced Mediation Seminar, Association of
Attorney-Mediators, Houston Texas, October
1999, Austin,
Texas, October 1998,
Dallas, Texas, October 1996.
Speaker -
“Feedback
from Jurors - What
Jurors Really Think,” Houston Bar Association
Litigation Section, February 12, 1999.
Speaker - “The Challenge of Complex, Multi-Party Mediation,”
Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, Houston Bar Association,
April 23, 1998.
Author - “The View
from the Jury Box,” Association of Attorney-Mediators, 1996
Author - Lead Article for South Texas Law Journal, co-authorship
with Robert W. Calvert, former Chief Justice of the Texas
Supreme Court.
Calvert & Perin,
Is the Castle
Crumbling - Harmless
Error Revisited?, 20 S.Tex.L.J. 1 (1979) – Article
cited by Texas Supreme Court in its cases
Author - Case Note, 19:2 S.Tex.L.J. 500 (1978), Common-law
Arbitration.
ACTIVITIES AND HONORS:
2007
Houston’s Top
Lawyers, Mediation and Arbitration, H Texas Magazine, June 2007
Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation and
Houston
Bar Foundation
Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, District 4, Harris County,
Appointed by The Supreme Court of Texas,
2001-2004
AV rating in Martindale-Hubbell since 1992, highest rating for
attorneys
College of the State Bar of
Texas
President and Member of the Board of Directors of the Houston
Chapter of the Association of Attorney-Mediators, 1995-1996;
Treasurer, 1994-1995; Member, 1991- present
Juror and Foreperson in Probate Court will contest case, April
30 - May 13, 1996
Chairperson of the Construction Law Section of the
Houston
Bar Association, 1994-1995
Original and four-year Council Member of the Construction Law
Section of the State Bar of Texas
Attorney-Mediator, Houston Bar Association Peer Mediation
Project with Houston Independent
School District, trained 4th
and 5th graders to mediate peer disputes, 1993-1995
Weekly volunteer at Ronald McDonald House, a home away from home
for families with children being treated at a Texas Medical
Center institution
Volunteer Ombudsman since 2002 with ESGR, Employer Support for
the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense agency - mediate
cases between employers and employees concerning employment
issues that arise due to employee’s military service.
On October 15, 2005, in Washington, D.C.,
presented with the Seven Seals Award and named the 2005
Ombudsman of the Year for the entire
United States
by the National Committee of ESGR, for impacting the lives of
our military, their families, and our employers.
Appointed to National Subcommittee on Ombudsman Services, ESGR, Arlington, Virginia,
three-year term beginning 2008.
