About the Mediator
Ellen Kandell is an attorney, mediator, faciliator and trainer. She has over 30 years of diverse legal experience in private and public sector law practice. She is the owner and president of Alternative Resolutions, LLC and is dedicated to serving as a full time neutral. Her company provides dispute resolution services, neutral evaluations, large group facilitation and training.. For ten years, Ms. Kandell served as an adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland University College and Catholic University of America, where she developed the curriculum and taught Negotiation and Conflict Management. She has mediated nearly 1000 cases and served as an arbitrator in over 400 interstate commercial cases. Ms. Kandell passed a voluntary performance based certification in Maryland in 2001. She is on the roster of numerous Maryland Circuit Courts, federal agencies and third party dispute resolution contractors. She is a frequent presenter at business and professional conferences and speaks throughout the United States. She is a well known mediation and conflict management trainer who has worked with diverse audiences ranging from state highway workers to appellate and circuit court judges. Finally, Ms. Kandell is a leader in the dispute resolution field in Maryland, having served as President of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution for two years, its Certification Committee chair and as co-chair of the ADR section of the Montgomery County Bar Association.
In August 2016 Mediation for Estate Planners was published by the ABA and it contains a chapter written by Ellen about the neutral's perspective.
In April 2016 Ellen F Kandell, Esq. was one of 70 international dispute resolution professionals that was selected by the International Bar Association to participate as an assessor in the 2016 Mediation and Negotiation competition in Vienna, Austria.
In April 2014 Ellen became the first MCDR member to be certified by the International Mediation Institute.
Ellen is one of eight Maryland mediators featured on a demonstration tape produced by Maryland's MACRO office.
Before opening Alternative Resolutions, Ellen was an attorney advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
