BRODSKY ADR - Key Persons


David M. Brodsky

Job Titles:
  • Principal
David M. Brodsky, the principal of Brodsky ADR LLC, is a consummate problem-solver for corporations, partnerships, other commercial entities, and individuals, seeking to resolve what appear to be intractable disputes. He is regularly selected by dispute resolution services, law firms, inside corporate counsel, and private organizations to act as a mediator or arbitrator in complex commercial disputes, including those involving professional liability, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, employment, insurance coverage, intellectual property, and financial instruments. He also serves, by appointment by a federal judge, to act as the Discovery Master of an international trademark dispute. He was recognized by his peers as an outstanding trial lawyer when elected as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and as an outstanding mediator and arbitrator when elected as a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and of the New York Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators, He is a Fellow of the American College of e-Neutrals and is consistently selected as one of the Top 100 of the Super Lawyers in New York, formerly as a trial lawyer and, since 2012, as an Alternate Dispute Resolution neutral. He brings to his practice more than four decades of experience as a prosecutor, private litigator, general counsel, and neutral. He was recognized by his peers as an outstanding trial lawyer when elected as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and as an outstanding mediator and arbitrator when elected as a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and of the New York Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators, and is consistently selected as one of the Top 100 of the Super Lawyers in New York, formerly as a trial lawyer and, since 2012, as an Alternate Dispute Resolution neutral. He is affiliated with The American College of e-Neutrals (ACESIN), an organization dedicated to the education, training, credentials, and use of third party referees, such as mediators, arbitrators, and special masters, committed to resolving disputes arising from electronically stored information (ESI). A former trial lawyer who has been a partner in global law firms, a federal prosecutor, and a general counsel of an investment bank, David is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Life Member of the American Law Institute. He has been cited for many years by Chambers for strategic insight and incredible persuasiveness and ability to comprehend extremely technical and complicated financial matters, and has been voted in the Top 100 of Super Lawyers in New York for many years. When an active trial lawyer, one adversary described David as "one of the most articulate, persuasive and likable advocates you will ever meet. The more complicated the matter, the more awesome his presentation. His razor-sharp intellect always comes across. With all this going for him he also projects his warm and affable side, sometimes with a twinkle in his eye or a self-effacing remark."