Mr. Reich is a trained, experienced mediator who has completed the required MA training program to insure confidentiality per M.G.L. ch. 233, s. 23c. He formerly served on a panel of the Boston Bar Association that provided evaluation, conciliation and mediation services to pro bono litigants in the Boston Municipal Court. As a professional Mediator, he handles complex mediations, including in the areas of environmental law, energy and land use. In addition, he provides case evaluations or second opinions on litigation or potential litigation matters. He also is a trained arbitrator and former member of the commercial panel of the American Arbitration Association. For a number of years, he taught a seminar in alternative dispute resolution as adjunct faculty at the Boston University School of Law where he acted as a mediator in mock mediations. Mr.Reich is a current member of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association and in 2019 was appointed to the Dispute Resolution Section Council on which he currently serves.
Mr. Reich recently joined a panel of the newly formed Central Massachusetts Mediation and Arbitration Service, a for-profit provider of dispute resolution services with its main office in Worcester, MA, but which offers remote DR services to clients in Massachusetts and nationwide. See https://www.cmassmediation.com/.
Mr. Reich authored “Five Things a Mediator Would Like Your Client to Know” that appeared in the Nov./Dec. 2019 MBA Dispute Resolution Section Review. See https://www.massbar.org/publications/section-review/section-review-article/section-review-2019-novemberdecember2019/five-things-a-mediator-would-like-your-client-to-know.
In 2020 Mr. Reich was the co-moderator and panelist of the MBA CLE “Primer on Mediation and Arbitration”. See https://www.massbar.org/membership/covid-19-updates/mba-covid-19-programs. In 2021 he and a fellow MBA DR Council member organized and co-moderated a series of 6 separate informal brown bag programs on the benefits and challenges of remote mediation/arbitration in the context of different practice areas. Each program was co-sponsored by a different section of the MBA. In 2023 Mr. Reich organized and moderated a remote panel discussion entitled “What Every Attorney Needs to Know to Prepare Clients and Participate Effectively in Mediation”. Mr. Reich organized and will moderate a panel on April 30, 2024 entitled “Mediating a High-Stakes Case: A Bird's Eye View of Best Practices for Counsel”.