Ruth Glick combines a business and legal background to provide unique and pragmatic skills to facilitate settlements between parties. As a currency and financial instruments trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's International Monetary Market in Chicago, Ms. Glick mediated very large monetary disputes among traders and institutional market participants. As an executive vice president of a foreign exchange arbitrage firm in charge of floor operations, Ms. Glick developed the business sense and pragmatism necessary to fashion satisfactory settlement options for disputing parties.  As the host of a daily television program in Chicago showcasing top business and government leaders, Ms. Glick gained the reputation of a fair and impartial moderator who carefully evaluated the issues and built a consensus among disparate participants. And as a judicial extern for the Honorable William A. Newsom, First District, California State Court of Appeal, Ms. Glick developed the skills to evaluate the legal implications of the dispute.

Ms. Glick was an adjunct professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law teaching arbitration and ADR Law for 10 years.  She has authored numerous book chapters, law articles for law reviews and professional publications and has made presentations on ADR topics to bar associations and other professional organizations. See ADR Activities

She is on the commercial arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), Office of the Independent Administrator as well as a number of court, industry and government ADR panels. See ADR Activities.  She has served as a mediator and arbitrator for a number of complex commercial and employment disputes. See Experience. She is a diplomat member of the California Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and in 2008 was honored for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Mediation.

Ms. Glick earned a B.A. degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She was trained as a mediator for legal disputes at Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers. She is a member of the California Bar, a past President of The Mediation Society of San Francisco, past President and Legislative Chair of the California Dispute Resolution Council (CDRC), a statewide organization representing the interests of ADR practitioners in Sacramento, Fellow and former Director of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, former President of the Bar Association of San Francisco Arbitration Committee, member of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ADR committee and Council Member of The Dispute Resolution Section of The American Bar Association.