Andrew Goodman
PRACTICE OVERVIEW
Andrew Goodman LLB MBA PhD FCIArb FInstCPD FRSA is a Barrister and has been an independent accredited CEDR mediator since 1993, practising in commercial, property, construction, development, partnership, franchising, professional negligence, workplace, higher education and family business disputes. Andrew has since resolved more than 400 claims, from purely nominal amounts to US$1.4 billion in the UK, UAE, Hong Kong, Egypt, Kuwait, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Singapore.
He has been recommended as a leading junior in professional indemnity claims and as a leading mediator in the Legal 500 for 27 years (Hall of Fame) and for 4 years by Chambers Directory. He is a Director of the College of Mediators, a Fellow of the Civil Mediation Council, a member of the England and Wales Bar's ADR Panel ( since 2005), the Independent Standards Commission of the International Mediation Institute and co-Vice Chair of its Mediation Advocacy Appraisal Committee (since 2011). Andrew is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and is acknowledged as one of the world's leading specialist inter-personal communication, negotiation, mediation and advocacy trainers, working with the Bar Council, RICS, ICAEW, CIArb, HMRC, the International Advocacy Training Council, FIRS (Nigeria), Practice Forte (Singapore), MoJ (Turkey), MoJ (Thailand), IIAM (India) and private universities, ADR Group and in many more jurisdictions.
Andrew has been instrumental in the development of mediation in Turkey since 2011, and has advised the Ministry of Justice, Court of Cassation, and trained Bar Associations in Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Samsun, Keyseri, Bursa, Antalya and Izmir. He was a founding partner of A Plus Arabuluculuk in Ankara.
Andrew is the author of over 50 books including Effective Mediation Advocacy (4th ed. 2024), Advanced Mediation Advocacy (2024), Preparing for Mediation (2016) How Judges Decide Cases (2016) and Effective Written Advocacy in Practice (2nd edn 2011) with Turkish language editions of his mediation advocacy series published by the Ministry of Justice in Turkey.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Andrew has mediated several hundred mediations and, since 1995, has been recommended as a leading junior in professional indemnity work and mediation in the Legal 500 for 25 years ( qualifying for the Legal 500 ‘Hall of Fame’). For four years he was listed in Chambers Directory as a leading practitioner in ADR.
He is currently a Professor of Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Studies at Rushmore University and is a visiting mediation and dispute management trainer to the Hong Kong, Nepal, Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and Izmir Bar Associations and the Judicial Academy of the Nepal Supreme Court, the Nepal International ADR Centre, the Thailand Arbitration Centre, and the Lagos and Enugu State Multi-Door Courthouses.
Andrew is a faculty trainer for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, ADR Group, Practice Forte Singapore, IIAM India, SCMA Nigeria, Thailand Arbitration Centre, Bangkok, an ABTA ArbEx panel arbitrator and conciliator, and an ADR Group certified online mediator. He was formerly Director of Mediation Training, RICS DRS 2007-2011 and RICS Faculty trainer 2007-2013.
AREAS OF SPECIALISM
- Agriculture
- Boundary Dispute
- Commercial
- Construction
- Partnership
- Professional Negligence
- Property
- Trusts
- Workplace