Name: Richard Byrne, Esq.

Title: Hearing Officer

Company: NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)

Real estate associations or organizations that you are currently a member of:
Counsel on Litigation Managment, Nassau County Bar Association

What led you to your current profession?
Today, I find myself as a full-time mediator and arbitrator with NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation) as a consequence of a path which I first stepped upon back in 1992. At that time, I had a strong interest in the then developing field of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and I was offered training for the inaugural ADR Panel being formed by the Eastern District of New York. I seized the opportunity. Through the years which followed, I gained experience and developed my skills as a neutral to the point where I was accepted to NAM’s panel of neutrals – an affiliation now of many years of which I am very proud.