Contact David M Doto Esq., LL.M.

Mediation, Neutral Evaluation, and Arbitration of litigated and non-litigated disputes, including personal injury, employment, business, commercial, construction, and serious/catastrophic matters. Facilitation of high conflict individual or organizational meetings. Conflict coaching. Customized training for organizations, working professionals,and attorneys, including conflict management and de-escalation, managing high-conflict personalities, negotiation, decision-making, mediation, mediator skills for working professionals, and mediation advocacy. Design of conflict management and litigation prevention systems in organizations.

David is an attorney with Hutchison & Steffen, and had a distinguished legal career spanning two decades as a civil litigator representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 100 companies in the state and federal trial and appellate courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. David was nominated in 2012 as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, co-founded the LCA’s American Academy of Alternative Dispute Resolution, and is a former Chair of the organization.

Since 2008, David has devoted much of his career to the practice, teaching, and promotion of ADR. From 2011-2015, David co-founded and served as the Director of the Conflict Transformation Institute of CoralBridge Partners, LLC, where he provided mediation and conflict-related training and consulting services to organizations and law firms nationwide.

David is a skilled mediator and facilitator able to employ facilitative, evaluative, and transformative techniques to litigated and non-litigated commercial, business, employment, and serious/catastrophic personal injury matters.

David also offers various customized training services tailored to the needs of organizations, corporations, attorneys, and working professionals. Since 2013, David has been an adjunct professor of law at both UNLV and Pepperdine.

David is a graduate of Villanova University with degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, and earned a J.D. degree from Villanova in 1991. He also holds an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute of the Pepperdine University School of Law.

• LL.M. Dispute Resolution, concentration in Mediation, 2014, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law
• Certificate in Dispute Resolution, 2012, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law
• J.D., Law, 1991, Villanova University School of Law
• B.A., Psychology, 1986, Villanova University
• B.A., Philosophy, 1986, Villanova University

Client-centered. Flexible approach to mediation: able to implement facilitative, evaluative, or transformative techniques to meet client needs in an efficient manner. Able to tailor training and systems design services to meet client needs as well.

Standard fee is $5000.00 flat rate per day, all expenses included.
Standard fee is negotiable based on type and complexity of case, etc.