Alternative Dispute Resolution

Bowles Rice offers a deep bench of trained, experienced mediators and arbitrators serving clients across West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and surrounding regions. Our team brings substantial subject matter knowledge and practical litigation experience to the resolution of complex disputes across a wide range of industries and practice areas.

Our attorneys are skilled in handling alternative dispute resolution matters involving:

• Labor and employment
• Securities
• Finance, banking, and commercial disputes
• Energy and natural resources
• Construction
• Education
• Professional liability
• Torts and personal injury
• Contract disputes
• ERISA
• Condemnation

Notably, members of our team are active participants in the American Arbitration Association’s Construction Mega Project Panel, reflecting our ability to handle highly complex, large-scale construction disputes with significant financial and operational implications.

Our mediators include attorneys who have completed both basic and advanced mediation training and bring a balanced, impartial approach shaped by diverse professional backgrounds, including judicial, administrative, and litigation experience. As a team, we are particularly well-equipped to mediate employment disputes, with a strong command of the underlying legal frameworks, liability theories, defenses, and damages models. This depth of knowledge allows us to facilitate efficient, informed discussions without requiring parties to spend valuable time educating the mediator on foundational legal issues.

Beyond employment matters, our attorneys bring broad civil litigation experience spanning personal injury, workplace and trucking accidents, school liability, commercial and contract disputes, real estate matters, Title IX litigation, and professional liability. This versatility enables us to effectively mediate and arbitrate a wide array of disputes with credibility and insight.

In addition, several members of our team have extensive experience in Business Mediation, assisting clients with resolving disputes between business principals, renegotiating ownership or partnership agreements, addressing shareholder and succession conflicts, facilitating partnership dissolutions, resolving inter-company disputes, and handling personnel and collections matters. Our approach emphasizes practical, business-oriented solutions that preserve relationships where possible while protecting our clients’ interests.

Across all engagements, Bowles Rice takes a collaborative, team-based approach to alternative dispute resolution—combining legal acumen, industry knowledge, and practical judgment to help clients achieve efficient, effective, and durable resolutions.