Marty Leewright

Mediator, Collaborative Lawyer and Litigation Attorney in Texas with background in Psychology and Sociology, extensive experience including Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, Litigation, Collaborative Law, Negotiation, Settlement, Criminal Prosecution, as well as Teaching, Speaking, Authorship, and Community, Educational and State Bar leadership.

Marty served on the Editorial Board of Alternative Resolutions, the official publication of the State Bar of Texas ADR Section. Marty has also served for several years as a Mediation Trainer for Texas 40-hour statutory Mediation training and teaches at accredited Continuing Legal Education Seminars (CLE) for The State Bar of Texas. He is a Member of the College of the State Bar of Texas and was named a Fellow of the State Bar College in 2004. He authored a 100-page Mediation Training Manual on Alternative Dispute Resolution for statutory mediation training and judicial Settlement Week training. He teaches Mediation and ADR related subjects at Texas Westleyan University Law School and Texas Woman’s University extended education program. For seven years he edited the Personal Injury Digest, a monthly digest of personal injury, wrongful death, insurance and related procedure and evidence cases from the fourteen Texas Courts of Appeals and Texas Supreme Court. He was editor of Dispute Resolution Texas Style, the official 20-page ADR brochure widely distributed to the public, lawyers and judges by the State Bar of Texas. He is a past Editor and contributor to the Denton County Lawyer and has also been invited to write many guest newspaper columns, he has written and published over 120 articles.

MEDIATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION TRAINING

Collaborative Law Training - (Chip Rose) Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Intermediate Collaborative Law Training, Dallas Bar Association, Dallas, Texas
Advanced Negotiation Strategies and Tactics for the Advocate, Tulane University School of Law, New
 Orleans, LA;
Ethical Dilemmas in Mediation - State Bar of Texas ADR Section, Austin;
Advanced Court-Annexed Mediator Training - Professional Attorney Mediators, Dallas;
Advanced Mediator Training - Attorney Mediator Institute, Dallas;
Advanced Arbitrator Training - American Arbitration Association, Dallas;
Psychodrama Training, National Psychodrama Training Center, Round Top, Texas;
Advanced Psychodrama Training, National Psychodrama Training Center, held at Hunt, Texas;
24-hour Advanced Negotiation & Mediation Training, CDR Associates, Boulder, CO
40-hour Certified Mediator Training - Dispute Resolution Services of Tarrant County;
24-hour Family Law Mediation Training - East Texas State University;
Mediation/ADR Trainer, Centers for Dispute Resolution of Denton and Tarrant Counties;
50-hour Negotiation and Mediation Summer Workshop, Texas Tech Univ. School of Law;
Director, Pilot Mediation Project, University of North Texas;
Arbitrator Training, American Arbitration Association, Dallas;
Resolving Commercial Disputes without Litigation - Univ. of Texas School of Law & Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans;
Alternative Dispute Resolution, The New Legal System, Southern Methodist University School of Law,
 Dallas;
16-hour Prejudice Reduction and Multicultural Diversity - National Coalition Building Institute;
24-hour Trainer/Facilitator Workshop, North Texas Coalition for Diversity;
Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR) International Seminar 1994, Dallas;
Texas Association of Mediators Annual Seminar 1994, Dallas;
Texas Association of Mediators Annual Seminar 1995, Houston;
State Bar of Texas Sixth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Institute;
State Bar of Texas Fifth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Institute;
State Bar of Texas Fourth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Institute;
Dispute Resolution Day, American Arbitration Association, Dallas;
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Dual Solutions and University of North Texas

TRIAL & LITIGATION TRAINING

Selected one of 50 lawyers nationally, to attend intensive Trial Lawyers College, Dubois, Wyoming;
Advanced Graduate Trial Advocacy Seminar, Trial Lawyers College, Dubois, Wyoming;
Advanced Personal Injury and Insurance Law Seminars, State Bar of Texas, numerous years;
Federal Civil Practice Seminars, Dallas Bar Assoc., E. Texas Trial Lawyers Assoc., Dallas, Tyler;
Texas Torts in the Nineties, The State Bar of Texas;
The Masters in Trial, American Board of Trial Advocates, Dallas, Texas;
11-Day Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, Univ. of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas;
Medical & Orthopedic Injuries, 6-wk course Medi-Legal Institute, SW Medical School, Dallas, Texas

MILITARY SERVICE & EXPERIENCE

U.S. Army Combat Engineer, combat service; National Defense Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Campaign & Combat medals; Also U.S. Army Reserves and Texas Reserves, served in underground Federal Intelligence & Communications facility, Top-Secret U.S. Security Clearance, Honorable Discharge.