Scott Bellows, Dispute Solutions' founder and primary neutral, is an experienced mediator, arbitrator, and facilitator with over 20 years experience in the Alternate Dispute Resolution, public policy, public process, and legal fields. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis, and holds a certificate in facilitative mediation training from the Willamette University School of Law Center for Dispute Resolution. He also has received specific training in transformative mediation, community mediation, and special education law.

Mr. Bellows began his ADR career in 1985, when he helped start, administer, and train a University-based community mediation program. Between 1987 and 2002, he worked as a litigation attorney in Oregon and California, handling a broad range of cases including appeals, aerospace and aircrash defense, government contracts and procurement, construction liens and defects, jobsite injuries, premises liability, insurance coverage, wrongful termination and employment discrimination, and personal injury. In 1996 he served as a special prosecutor for the Multnomah County (OR) District Attorney’s Office, and in 1999, as part of the Condominium Working Group, he was the primary author of the Oregon statutes regulating the authority of condominium boards of directors to prosecute litigation over construction defects (ORS 100.405(4)(e)). His litigation clients included McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Corporation, Thrifty PayLess, Rite Aid, Lloyd’s of London, Assicurazioni Generali SpA, International Steel Company, and numerous individuals. As a litigator and trial attorney, he represented parties in several hundred mediations, arbitrations, and settlement conferences, including complex multiparty construction defect mediations involving 50+ parties, 150+ insurance carriers, and lasting up to two months.

Since 2002 Mr. Bellows has worked exclusively as a mediator, arbitrator, and facilitator, helping people resolve a broad range of disputes including special education mediations and 504/IEP plan facilitations; construction defect and payment disputes; employment and workplace disputes, including union and discrimination matters; child custody and parenting time disagreements; public policy conflicts involving transportation, land use, and environmental issues; and church personnel conflicts. His clients include the United States Postal Service, the Oregon Department of Education, the Oregon Court of Appeals, and individual attorneys, firms, and parties. He has been appointed to the qualified mediator rosters of numerous state, federal and appeals courts and government agencies, including the Oregon Attorney General Mediator Roster and the Oregon Consensus Program.

In addition to his mediation and arbitration practice, Mr. Bellows has a strong commitment to volunteer public service. He has served on the boards of directors or committees of numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Executive Committee of the Oregon State Bar Association Alternate Dispute Resolution Section, Portland Mountain Rescue's Board of Directors; the Roosevelt Middle School Site Council and Diversity Committee; his church; and as bono legal counsel to Portland Habitat for Humanity; and is on the site council for a public middle school. He is a certified Wilderness First Responder and volunteers with Portland Mountain Rescue and Eugene Mountain Rescue. Mr. Bellows is married and has two daughters, ages 12 and 14.

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