JOHN E. SANDS
ARBITRATOR & MEDIATOR
200 EXECUTIVE DRIVE - SUITE 100
WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY 07052

RESUME

  Since 1972 John E. Sands has arbitrated and mediated more than 3,000 labor-management, employee benefit, trustee deadlock, and employment law disputes. A member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1977, he has chaired its New York-New Jersey Region.  He has been the Impartial Arbitrator of the National Hockey League/NHL Players Association and International, American, and East Coast Hockey League/Professional Hockey Players Association contracts, of Major League Baseball salary disputes and of disputes between the United States Olympic Committee and athletes.  He has also served as permanent arbitrator in a number of industries, including railroads, construction, airlines, maritime, longshore, retail sales, trucking, manufacturing, health care, higher education, and others in both the public and private sectors.  Mr. Sands has mediated and arbitrated complex litigations involving a wide range of employment, commercial, discrimination and sexual harassment issues.  He also provides alternative dispute resolution strategies, services and consultation to businesses, unions, institutions and law firms.

A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School, Mr. Sands has chaired the Labor and Employment Law Sections of three organizations:  New York State Bar Association (1986-87), Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1981-84), and Association of American Law Schools (1976).  He also chaired the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans' American Arbitration Committee that drafted the American Arbitration Association's revised Multiemployer Pension Plan Arbitration Rules for Withdrawal Liability Disputes (effective September 1, 1986).  From 1981-83 he was honored as the AAA's J. Noble Braden Arbitrator.  He is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a Mediator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Between 1973-83, Mr. Sands was Professor of Law at Albany Law School of Union University, where he taught Labor Law, Arbitration, Constitutional Law, Insurance, and Employment Law courses and developed innovative curricula for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution seminars.  Prior to that he was General Counsel of New York City's Office of Labor Relations (representing management from 1970-73) and a partner of Schulman, Abarbanel, Perkel & McEvoy (representing unions and employee benefit funds from 1965-70).  Mr. Sands is a widely-published author, and he has lectured throughout the United States and Canada to both lawyers and lay people on law and dispute resolution. His biographical entries have included Who's Who in America, in the East, in Labor, and in American Law.

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