ADR OFFICE

                                         OF

                            KENNETH L.  MANN


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OFFERING

ADR (ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION)

MEDIATOR  AND ARBITRATOR SERVICES 

 

 

 

 

 

                    ADR OFFICE

                  OF

 KENNETH L. ("KEN") MANN


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                        OFFERING ADR

     (ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION)

      MEDIATOR & ARBITRATOR SERVICES 

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  6822 North 72nd Place
Scottsdale, AZ 85250
    Phone: (480) 789-1025 
Fax: (866) 890-6266
             E-Mail: ken@reasonablemann.com 
   www.reasonablemann.com

AV®-rated over 25 years by Martindale-Hubbell

ADR, Trial Court & Appellate Litigation, Transactional, and Governmental Experience Includes:  

* Commercial Transactions--Shareholders & Partners--Franchise Disputes--Consumer Law

* Alleged Business Torts and Statutory Torts, e.g.,  Securities, Real Estate and Other Fraud, Defamation, Tortious Interference, Lender Liability, FDCPA,  Employment Contracts,  Retaliatory Discharge, ADEA, etc.

* Bankruptcy--Fraudulent Transfers, Discharge/Dischargeability, Workouts, etc.

* Real Estate Disputes re Purchases/Sales/Leases, Financing, Receiverships, Eminent Domain, Valuation, etc.

* Accountings and  ESI Discovery Issues

* Probate, Trust, Guardianship, Tax, and  Regulated Rates Disputes

* Civil RICO Seizure, Forfeiture, Injunction, and Damages Issues

* Legal and Administrative Services As Former Court Counsel  to Presiding Judge, Several Department Presiding Judges, Administrators, etc., somewhat akin to In-House Counsel for Large Corporations).

More Than Fifteen Published Decisions (See  Representative Reported Cases Below).

Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association (Large, Complex  Commercial Case Panel), and

FINRA (fka NASD) Arbitration Panel, Including Securities Industry Employment Disputes.

  Selected to Arbitrate  75 ± Complex Cases, e.g.:

*  Chaired 5 Public, Binding, Statewide Insurance Rate Arbitrations b/t Insurors & Fla. Dept. of Ins. 

*  Alleged Business, Real Esate and Securities Fraud, Tortious Interference, and Other
 
    Business Torts
 
*  Franchise/License Disputes between Franchisors/Licensors and Franchisees/Licensees

*  Shareholder/Partner/LLC Buy-Sell Agreement Disputes re Valuations, Accountings, etc.

*  Real Estate and Business Sale, Leasing, Financing, and Lender Liability Controversies

*  Requirements Contracts

*  Executive Employment Contracts

*  First-party Insurance Policy Disputes re Exclusions, Coverage, etc.

*  Many Arbitrations Included ESI and Other Discovery Disputes

*  Specific Performance, TRO and Injunctive Relief Issues

 *Various Complex Securities Investment Disputes,  Dealer v. Dealer , etc.

Certified (Florida) Trial And Appellate Mediator; Member of American Arbitration

Association's Commercial Mediation Panel;   Member of FINRA's Mediation Panel for
 
Securities Industry Disputes, Including Employment Disputes; et al.

  Selected to Mediate 75 ±  Sophisticated Financial Disputes, e.g.:

*  Alleged Fraud, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Churning, and Other Business and Securities Torts

*  Consumer Class Action (appellate mediation)

*  Ad Valorem Taxes (appellate mediation)

*  Real Estate Contracts, Zoning, Eminent Domain, etc. 

*  Bankruptcy Disputes between: Trustee and Creditors; Creditors & Debtor's Insurors, etc. 

*  Disputes between or Among Beneficiaries and Fiduciaries in Large Estates and Trusts

* Commercial Mortgage Fraud Multi-party Mediation

Public Service Settlement Officer/Mediator, Arbitrator. and Quasi-Judicial Roles

*  Volunteer Arbitrator, State Bar of Arizona Fee Arbitration Committee

* Volunteer Settlement Officer and Attorney, Arizona Supreme Court Attorney Discipline Panel 

Former Special Counsel (Litigation) For Bankruptcy Trustee. 

Prior Transactional Practice And Workout Experience.

Former CPA (Prior to Law School): Price Waterhouse Audit Division (4 Years).

* Audit Senior on Mortgage and Equity-Based REIT's and Securities Broker-Dealer.


Expert Witness.

* Consulting/Testifying - On Legal Ethics, Legal Malpractice, And Fee Disputes.

EDUCATION

* J.D., magna cum laude, Mercer University, Macon, GA, 1973 -- Valedictorian; Editor-in-

Chief, Mercer Law Review (1972 - 1973); Intra-State Moot Court Champion Team (1972).

* B.S. in Business Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1966 --

Order of the Old Well (honorary society).

LICENSURE

* Member, Florida Bar (1973) (Speaker at Fla.  4th DCA Swearing-In Ceremony) and Arizona Bar (2005).

* Admitted to practice before: U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd, 9th and 11th  

Circuits; 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel; U.S. District Courts,  District of Arizona and

Middle District of  Florida; U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

* Certified Mediator (Fla. Civil Trials and Appeals); Member of ADR Panels, Bankr. D.

Ariz. (Phoenix Division); Former Mediation and Arbitration Panel Member, M.D. Fla. (Orlando

Division); Former Mediation Panel Member, Bankr. M.D. Fla.(Orlando Division). 

* Former CPA (Florida and North Carolina).

REPRESENTATIVE REPORTED CASES

* Patton v. Kera Technology, Inc ., 895 So.2d 1175 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005), rev. granted, 912 So.2d 318 (Fla. 2005)
* Campellone v. Cragan , 910 So.2d 363 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005)
* Magnolia Manor, Inc. v. Siegel , 866 So.2d 142 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004)
* In re Inman,  260 B.R. 233 (Bankr.  M.D. Fla. 2000)
* Florida Dept. of Revenue v. Race , 743 So.2d 169 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999)
* Bryan v. Clayton , 698 So.2d 1236 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997), rev. denied, 707 So.2d 1123 (Fla. 1998), cert. denied, 524 U.S. 933 (1998), after remand, 753 So.2d 632 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000)
* Peck v. Delta Fire Sprinkler, Inc ., 675 So.2d 711 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996)
* C&W Leasing, Inc. v. Orix Credit Alliance, Inc ., 957 F.2d 815 (11th Cir. 1992)
* In re Siefert,  130 B.R. 607 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1991)
* In re Walsh , 123 B.R. 925 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 1991)
* Barden v. Pappas,  532 So.2d 707 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988), after remand, 565 So.2d 755 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990)
* Jones v. Orlando Second Car Center,  30 Fla. Supp.2d 105 (Fla. 9th Cir. 1988)
* Winterbotham v. Computer Corps, Inc.,  490 So.2d 1282 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986)
* Holland v. Hattaway,  438 So.2d 456 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983)
* Zirot v. Gilmer,  336 So.2d 680 (Fla. 4th DCA 1976)

PRESENTATIONS

* Presenter at over 25 CLE Seminars and Other Programs for: Arizona Bar Real Property

Section (Mediation of Troubled Commercial Mortgage Loans),  Various Sections of Florida Bar

and  Orange County (FL) Bar, Marion County and Seminole County (FL) Inns of Court,

annual conventions of Attorneys Title Insurance Fund, University of Miami Annual Real

Estate Symposium, Central Florida Tax Roundtable, Florida Institute of CPAs,  Lawyers Title

Insurance Corporation, various civic groups, and public television.

              Topics included mediation and arbitration; real estate fraud; title insurance litigation issues;

bankruptcy litigation (discharge and dischargeability issues); consumer law; ethics and
 
professionalism; legal malpractice; major probate, tax, and business legislation; estate

planning; will drafting; tax issues in divorce, etc.

PRIMARY PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Volunteer Attorney, Arizona Supreme Court Attorney Discipline Panel  and
Settlement Officer                                                                                                                        2011  -Present

Arizona Bar Fee Arbitration Committee  and Arbitrator                                                       2007 - Present

American Arbitration Association, Large Complex Commercial Case Arbitration and Mediation Panels                                                                                             1996 - Present
 
FINRA Arbitration and Mediation Panels, Including Employment Disputes                      2010 --Present

Member, Bankruptcy Court, Phoenix Division, Compensated and 
          Uncompensated ADR Panels                                                                                           2010 -- Present

Volunteer Mediator, ABA Law Student Representation in Mediation Competition Regionals                                                                                                                                                       2010

Arizona Attorney General’s Office Ethics Committee                                                           2009    --   2010

Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee (Chairman, 1996 - 1997)                                    1993   --  2005

Florida Bar Special Committee on Unbundled Legal Services                                                2003   --  2005

Barry University of Orlando School of Law, Adjunct Faculty (Professional Responsibility)                                                                                                              Fall  2000

Florida Bar 9th Circuit Grievance Committee D (Chairman, 1996 - 1997)                          1994   --   1997

Florida Bar Standing UPL Committee (Vice Chairman, 1986 - 1988)                                  1981   --   1988

Florida Bar Clients Security Fund Committee                                                                       1983   --    1986

Orange County Bar Association Law Week Committee (Chairman)                                         1985 --1986

PRIMARY COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Director, Scottsdale Bar Association                                                                                                          2011

Director, Homeowners' Association (President, 2011)                                                               2011-Present

Director, Seminole Community College (nka Seminole State College) Foundation                 1998 -- 2005

Rotary, Seminole County South (Director, 1994-1997) (Paul Harris Fellow Award)                 1977--2002
    
Member, City of Maitland Franchise Review Committee                                                           1995 -- 2000

Director, Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Central Florida                   1982 -- 1994

Orange County Bar Association  Teen Court -- Advisor and Judge                                        1995 &  2000

Mediator, Orange County Bar Ass'n. Citizen Dispute Settlement Program                              1978 --1996

Orange County Bar Ass'n.  Legal Aid Society Homeless Advocacy Project                               1992 - 1993

Orange County Public Schools, Business Advisory Board                                                           1994-- 1996

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