Richard Rogow
Rick, a pioneer in Dispute Resolution, received his initial mediation training with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, in 1977, as a founding member of CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado. Rick has mediated and prepared attorneys and parties to mediate for more than 30 years. Rick is recognized nationally for his skill, perseverance and compassion; and opened the Pittsburgh Mediation Group in 1998 shortly after his return to Pittsburgh. Rick’s experience, across disciplines and cultures, brings strength and sensitivity to conversations, and provides a dedicated and compassionate framework for the parties to reach resolution and satisfying outcomes.
Rick is recognized as someone who builds trust quickly, creates an environment for inquisitive discovery and produces enduring results. He serves as a mediator to state and federal agencies; for the Federal District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, the EEOC, the US Postal Service and on-line mediation for mediate.com.
Rick has a BA in English, University of Pittsburgh, and earned his JD at the Duquesne School of Law. He is a Certified Advanced Practitioner of Transformative Mediation, a certified Elder Law Mediator, a Board Member of the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania, a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, and has been on the ADR Committee, Elder Law Committee, Employment Law Section; a certified on-line mediator for mediate.com; and a member of Mediators Beyond Borders.
Areas of interest: Civil Rights Discrimination, Elder Discussions, Employment & Workplace Conditions, Estate and Probate Matters, Residential Construction and Supply-Demand Compliance.
Chip Dougherty
Mr. Dougherty is the Associate Director of Intellectual Property at Carnegie Mellon University where he works to help create data-driven business decisions that support the University’s mission of continual innovation in education, research, creativity and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the University, he had a 33-year career as a legal and business professional focused on the development and commercialization of new technology. As an attorney with Reed Smith LLP, he helped his clients acquire, protect and enforce their intellectual property rights across a wide range of technologies. He has litigated subject matter as diverse as pharmaceutical formulations, DNA cloning and expression, medical imaging, nutritional supplements, video streaming, industrial hoist design and horizontal drilling processes. In 2012 Chip helped establish and led the life science practice at Beck and Thomas P.C., specifically to serve intellectual property clients in the pharmaceutical and medical device market. Since 2006, Chip has served as a mediator for the Western District of Pennsylvania and assists in the resolution of intellectual property disputes filed in Federal Court.
Chip has a B.S. in Biology from Gannon University, an M.S. from The Pennsylvania State University, and a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law. He is a registered patent attorney at the USPTO and is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, the CAFC and multiple other jurisdictions. Chip serves on the Board of Directors for the Carnegie Science Center and the Mediation Counsel of Western Pennsylvania, and is a past president of the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association.
Andrew Horowitz
Andrew is a Partner in the law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. He is an experienced litigator, with an emphasis on employment law and business litigation. He has represented parties ranging from individuals to small businesses to the largest of corporations—so he feels your pain regardless of which side you’re on. Andrew has successfully tried cases to verdict for those clients where settlement was not satisfactory.
As a litigator, Andrew learned that litigation is not an optimal means to resolve disputes. It is expensive and time-consuming. Litigation tends to make parties more dug-in to their positions, rather than to achieve their goals. Parties are often better off when willing to settle their disputes informally. It happens much faster with far less resources and aggravation expended. It is confidential. Everyone moves on with their lives. Andrew became a mediator to help parties to achieve the benefits of settlement in difficult cases.
Andrew has completed his basic mediation training course offered by the Alternative Group in Pittsburgh, PA. He is approved as a mediator by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and serves on the mediator panel of the Pittsburgh office of the U.S. EEOC.
Andrew is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Jerome M. Jackson
Jerome has been a consultant, mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, and trainer. He has also, worked in the field of human and community development, leadership and program management for non-profit, community organizations for 20 years. Since 2010, he has been the Executive Director at Operation Better Block, Inc., providing program leadership, community advocacy, strategies for community development and youth development in the Homewood area of Pittsburgh. Jerome has 20 years’ experience in consensus building and group facilitation; and is a seasoned mediator and trainer in conflict resolution.
Jerome was Associate Director at Manchester Citizens Corporation for five years, establishing policy, community outreach and oversight of finances and fundraising. He worked for the City of Pittsburgh, Office of the Mayor, Youth Policy Department for five years, developing youth leadership trainings, mentoring and assessments of youth programs.
As a consultant, Jerome’s clients include the National Center for Juvenile Justice, the State Department of Public Welfare, Pennsylvania Health Education Center, Holy Family Institute, Pittsburgh Board of Education, and Pittsburgh Mediation Center. Jerome has been an adjunct faculty at Duquesne University’s Leadership Development Program. Jerome is an approved mediator for the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Federal Court Western PA District, and the UPMC Intermediation Program.
Jerome was a member of Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution. He was also a Member of the Pennsylvania Balanced and Restorative Juvenile Justice Implementation Committee. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators and Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania.
Jerome has his formal education and training from the Community College of Allegheny County & Robert Morris University/Bayer Center for Non-Profit Management.
Vincent O. Johnson
Vincent O. Johnson, MBA is skilled in conflict resolution, intergroup dialogue, process facilitation, change management and organizational effectiveness. Vincent has over 40 years of experience with effective business management from a multicultural perspective, including Supplier Diversity program development and facilitation of Diversity & Inclusion Councils. He has earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an MBA in Human Resources / Leadership from Waynesburg University.
Vincent currently serves as the Director of Equity & Inclusive Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and reports to the Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusive Excellence. In this role, Vincent works closely with the Pitt Law community to develop and implement a strategic plan for enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels. Vincent takes personal responsibility for fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture by collaborating with various constituents to leverage available resources and coordinate efforts to guide, foster and advance the goals of the law school.
In addition, Vincent has facilitated multicultural training workshops, virtually and in-person, as a senior staff consultant on a part-time basis with VISIONS, Inc. since 2003. He has administered corporate employee focus groups and delivered ad hoc process facilitation to meet client needs. Vincent’s emphasis has included consultations in the education, banking, financial services, health care, consumer products, public utility, religious and private sectors as well as with non-profit organizations.
Vincent’s professional experience also includes functional roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of Human Resources and Supply Chain Management with Procurement Resources, Inc.; The PNC Financial Services Group; VHA Pennsylvania; and the Procter & Gamble Company since 1979.
Vincent is Vice Chair of the Board for VISIONS, Inc. and Chair of the VISIONS Board Marketing Committee. Vincent is Co-Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Committee on Diversity & Inclusion. Vincent has served as an active member of several ACBA committees including the Committee for Diversity & Inclusion, the Homer S. Brown Division, the Asian Attorneys Committee, the Committee on Law & Disability, the Hispanic Attorneys Committee and the LGBT Rights Committee. He is a committee member of the Inclusive & Equitable Economy Committee for the Pennsylvania Economy League of Greater Pittsburgh. In addition, Vincent has been a very active Harvard College admissions interviewer since 1981 and is currently Vice President of the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania as well as Chair of the Minority Outreach Program for the Schools and Scholarships Committee. Vincent also serves as a Trustee at the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh.
G. Clinton Kelley
Clint Kelley is an active trial lawyer in Western Pennsylvania, and he has realized first-hand the real world benefits that litigants receive by mediating their legal disputes rather than dealing the risk, expense, and delays associated with going to trial.
Clint first received mediation training back in 1986 (while he was still a law student) through the City of Cleveland Prosecutor’s Office pilot program created to reduce inner city crime through the mediation of neighborhood and family conflicts. He successfully mediated numerous inter-personal disputes through that community program. Currently, Clint mediates and arbitrates civil disputes in Allegheny County and is an approved mediator, arbitrator, and early neutral evaluator on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania’s panel. He concentrates his mediation practice in the area of consumer protection cases, e.g. FDCPA, employment discrimination matters, and other civil disputes.
In his law practice, Clint represents Plaintiffs in medical malpractice, nursing home abuse and neglect, motor vehicle collision, premises liability, employment law, and securities/investor cases before State and Federal Courts, administrative agencies, arbitration panels, and mediators. Clint has practiced law since 1988, and has owned and operated his own law practice since 1991. Given his extensive trial experience, he is an elected member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (“ABOTA”). He serves on the Board of Governors of the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and has been named to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania. Since 2001, Clint has taught Continuing Legal Education classes involving civil trial practice topics for CAPE Education. From 2007 - 2014, Clint taught Business Law and Negotiation classes at Point Park University. In response to docket backlogs due to COVID-related Court shut downs and slow downs, Clint helped create the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Remote Arbitration program.
Jessica Lynch
Jessica Lynch is an experienced attorney and problem solver. Over the course of her career she has handled matters—and resolved cases-- involving legal aid, family law, civil litigation, corporate work, labor and employment law, class actions, housing, and immigration. From the very start she participated in alternative dispute resolution, especially Arbitration and Mediation. As in-house counsel for a large, global corporation, Jessica learned that resolving cases out of court was the formula for success, for all parties.
After establishing her own firm to transition from advocate to Neutral, Jessica honed her resolution skills in service to Just Mediation Pittsburgh and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as a Mediator. She also serves as a Federal ADR Specialist, working with numerous federal government agencies, including Defense Logistics Agency, Department of Corrections, Department of Navy, Office of Personnel Management, USPS, and the Veterans Administration. Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas retains Jessica as an Arbitrator in the Civil Division and she is an approved Neutral for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Jessica has been a servant-leader throughout her career, handling pro bono custody cases during her first year of practice and continuing to today when she handles pro bono Protection from Abuse matters as well as Landlord-Tenant cases. In this work Jessica has gained a greater perspective of the diversity of problems confronting the community. She has demonstrated leadership in community organizations and Boards across all segments and demographics. Jessica has been honored for maintaining high ethical standards and dedication, is self-disciplined and is a decisive action-taker. Through use of her skills of ethics, collaboration, and empathy, Jessica has proven to be successful in solving difficult problems.
For her formal education, Jessica graduated from Franklin & Marshall College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She earned her law degree from the College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 1992. To further her business acumen, Jessica participated in an MBA Essentials program at the Katz School of Business and received a certificate from Pitt’s Center for Executive Education.
Currently, Jessica is President of the Executive Women’s Council of Greater Pittsburgh. She also is a member of the Boards of Pennsylvania Council of Mediators and Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania.
Jessica resides in an empty nest in Aspinwall with her Husband (Jay Arnone).
Jeff Pollock
In his role as an Attorney, Collaborative Settlement Advocate and/or Mediator, Jeff has devoted his law career to helping people settle disputes. He has concentrated primarily in the field of Family Law and Domestic Relations as a sole practitioner since 1989 to provide the best grounding available to most successfully utilize the law to help his clientele maximize their options. Jeff is a third generation attorney and one of three co-founders of the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Jeff assists families and domestic partners obtain their desired outcomes in a fair and balanced manner.
Jeff has been an active member in the Allegheny County Bar Association's Family, Juvenile, Estate, and Elder Law Sections and Committees. His awards and committee chairmanships demonstrate peer respect. Jeff earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. Jeff’s history of community service has included board positions at the ACBA, NLSA, CLASP, PNWF, JCC Theater, Pittsburgh YWCA, Hosanna House and AMVETS. Jeff is recognized for his compassion and wide-ranging concern for anyone who has been thrust into a situation not of their own choosing and which requires legal attention and expertise. His personal experiences have created an empathetic approach to advocacy and enabled his third-party involvement as a mediator to typically result in more satisfying and just legal outcomes.