The La Jolla Center for Dispute Resolution is a full service provider of dispute resolution services.  The Center is located in La Jolla, California and has convening opportunities in Driggs, Idaho.  Services are provided in California, the Rocky Mountain West and nationwide.

Dick Bayer is the president of the Center. Dick has been an AAA arbitrator since the mid-1980's and a credentialed mediator since 1996.  He has mediated over 200 business, land-use, environmental and other cases in the last nine years.  He was recently named to the United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (www.ecr.gov), becoming only the 7th neutral in California to be on that distinguished roster.  He was selected as the "Professional of the Year: Environmental Law," by Strathmore's Who's Who.  He is a member of the California Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and several other well-known panels.  He has served on the Board of the National Conflict Resolution Center (formerly the San Diego Mediation Center), the board of ADR-San Diego and the board of the California Dispute Resolution Council (CDRC), the non-profit advocate for all ADR providers in California.  He was president of CDRC in 2005. He is the president of The ReAlignment Group, Ltd., a construction project dispute resolution company that takes troubled projects and puts them back on track.  He is also a lawyer, a law professor, an author and frequent lecturer on Environmental Law and ADR topics. 

Dan Fauchier is the Director of Construction Services for the Center.  Dan is a construction project manager, college teacher, mediator, arbitrator, partnering facilitator and construction management expert with twenty years experience in direct, hands-on management of construction projects from $250,000 to $18,000,000, and forensics consulting for over Three Billion Dollars in projects nationwide.  Experienced in commercial, residential and public construction, on nearly one hundred projects, he has served as either the general contractor, a subcontractor, the project manager for the general or subcontractor, the design team leader or the owner's construction manager.  Dan mediates and arbitrates through the Center, offers training through the Center and is instrumental in directing Project Alignment^TM, Project Realignment^TM, and Design-Build ADR^TM for Construction professionals.

Jessica Suarez is the Center's Business Development Manager and is charge of coordinating all new and existing business with the Center.  Jessica graduated Magna Cum Laude from San Diego State University with a degree in International Conflict Resolution.

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