Don Philbin is an AV-rated attorney-mediator, negotiation consultant and trainer, and arbitrator.  He has resolved disputes and crafted deals for more than two decades as a business and commercial litigator, general counsel, and president of communications and technology-related companies.  Don holds a Masters of Law degree from Pepperdine’s top-ranked Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, where he is now an adjunct professor, has trained and published at Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is an elected Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Civil Trial Mediators, and was one of the first U.S. mediators certified under the international standards established by the International Mediation Institute. He has mediated hundreds of individual and class matters in a wide variety of substantive areas and serves as a neutral on several panels, including CPR’s Panels of Distinguished Neutrals.  Don has published widely in the field, is Chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Negotiation Committee, and a member of the ADR Section Council of the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Philbin is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Dispute Resolution), Texas Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in San Antonio, and the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.