Stephen S. Strick is an Alternative Dispute Resolution Specialist with over thirty years of experience as an international and domestic arbitrator and mediator. Stephen has served as Chair, sole arbitrator, or panel member on over three hundred and fifty Domestic and International commercial arbitrations in fields that include technology, media, IP, licensing, FCC matters, sports, healthcare, and other industries. His professional practice is exclusively devoted to dispute resolution.

Stephen currently serves on the American Arbitration Association’s National Roster of Arbitrators, its Commercial Panel, Large, Complex Case Panel, Federal Communications Panel, Panel of Mediators, the ICDR International Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators.  Stephen maintains a full-time practice, is listed as a neutral on the rosters of most major ADR provider organizations and is a Fellow and sitting current President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators.

Prior to starting his ADR practice, Stephen was a film and television lawyer and a senior studio executive and ultimately a film producer, working on the production, financing and/or distribution and international sales of hundreds of motion pictures, including such iconic films as Rocky, Carrie, the Pink Panther Series, the James Bond Series, Star Wars , Dune, Blue Velvet, Conan the Barbarian and many others, working both independently as well as with such companies as United Artists Corporation, HBO, and Dino De Laurentiis Corporation.  He was also in private practice at the predecessor to the prestigious entertainment law firm Loeb & Loeb where he represented motion picture actors, writers, directors, banks, and other institutions in their film related businesses.