August 13, 2026
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Explore AAA Mediation.org’s extensive list of online mediator profiles to identify and select a mediator best suited for your particular dispute.
Ben Stewart is a member of the AAA’s Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Panels and the founder of Stewart Dispute Resolution, PLLC. Backed by more than 20 years of experience handling complex civil cases, Ben is dedicated to helping parties resolve legal conflicts with efficiency, fairness, and integrity. He has extensive experience handling cases involving employment claims, construction claims, antitrust claims, and class actions, alongside navigating specialized disputes within the agriculture industry. Ben is a graduate of Columbia Law School and shares his passion for dispute resolution by offering CLEs to attorneys and teaching courses on the subject as an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. For more information, email him at [email protected] or view his AAA mediator resume at https://mediatorsearch.adrapps.org/resume/4108439.
Larry Rute is an accomplished civil litigator and dispute resolution professional with 27+ years of experience in state and federal courts and over 40 years as an arbitrator and mediator.
He is recognized for leadership in civil rights and constitutional litigation, including successful class actions advancing due process and institutional reform. Larry has been an experienced lead trial counsel in hundreds of cases across consumer protection, corporate liability, real estate, and administrative law. He is known for strategic insight, balanced judgment, and delivering efficient, fair resolutions.
Larry has successfully mediated more than 5,000 matters involving commercial law, consumer protection, employment law, family law division of assets, personal injury, probate, workplace disputes, and complex multi-party cases, including class and collective actions. He serves as an arbitrator on behalf of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and Associates in Dispute Resolution. He is a Due Process Hearing Officer for the Kansas Department of Education.
David W. Ichel is a Chambers USA top-ranked mediator. He is an AAA and ICDR panel mediator and arbitrator, a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the Academy of Court Appointed Neutrals. This article updates an article Mr. Ichel previously published in the New York Law Journal, David W. Ichel, “How to Avoid and Break Mediation Impasse,” N.Y. Law Journal (Oct. 24, 2023).
Christopher M. Ernst is a full-time arbitrator and mediator, having retired from the active practice of law in 2025 after 34 years of fighting for his clients. His ADR practice, Nationwide ADR (www.nationwideadr.com), focuses on resolving complex disputes in the areas of business, tort, consumer, employment, and securities law. While based in Cleveland, Ohio, he oversees cases across the country. He is also the author of Baldwin’s Ohio Practice: Tort Law 2d, published by West/Thomson Reuters.
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