Harold Kaplan, Esq. Offers a Primer on ADR

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In this episode, Harold Kaplan, M.H.A., J.D., presents a primer on alternative dispute resolution and in particular a quick overview of how arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution process.

About Our Guest:

Harold Kaplan is a graduate of Pace University School of Law (J.D. 1983), and also Pace’s Lubin School of Business (B.B.A. 1972, with triple major of Law, Taxation and Economics), the University of Ottawa, Graduate School of Health Administration (M.H.A. 1974), and the Nova University Circuit Civil Dispute Resolution program (1998).

As a health law attorney, he represented medical practices and health care providers for over 30 years and since 1998 he has been an arbitrator and neutral dispute resolver for the American Arbitration Association’s health care and mergers and acquisitions panels.

He is also an arbitrator for the American Health Lawyers Association-Dispute Resolution Service and for the Better Business Bureau’s AutoLine lemon law cases and for its national class action arbitration cases. He is a volunteer pro bono attorney for Pisgah Legal Services, Asheville, North Carolina.

Since 2016, he has limited his practice to arbitrating commercial disputes and all other facets of arbitration including serving as a case consultant for attorneys handling complex arbitrations.

Mr. Kaplan was past chair of the Florida Bar’s Health Law Section and also its Board Certification Committee. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell® and listed in its register of Preeminent Lawyers (2002 - 2023). He was voted a Florida Super Lawyer in 2007 through 2011 and he is a member of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section.

His website is www.kaplanarbitration.com

Today’s discussion will focus on a primer on alternative dispute resolution and in particular a quick overview of how arbitration is an alternative dispute resolution process.