Alternative Dispute Resolution Services
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIESFrom September 2000 to May 2001, Mr. Peppard served as liaison to Romania for the American Bar Association’s Central & Eastern European Law Initiative (ABA-CEELI) from offices in Bucharest.
Working with a talented and dedicated staff of Romanians, and in cooperation with both the US embassy and the US Agency for International Development mission in Bucharest, Mr. Peppard was responsible for planning and implementing reform programs for the legal and judicial systems of the country in preparation for its anticipated entry to the European Union. Those programs included:
These programs allowed Mr. Peppard to work closely with officials of the Romanian Ministry of Justice, the national Ombudsman, the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals and lower courts, the national Parliament, leaders of the international community, including officials of the European Union and the World Bank, and with lawyers, bar leaders, law professors, chamber of commerce officials and community leaders throughout the country.
This unique experience, which involved study and consultation elsewhere in the region, has provided Mr. Peppard with an understanding of European legal systems and institutions and of the business and economic climate in Central and Eastern Europe.
During his tenure as chair of the ADR Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin (2002-03), membership in the section grew by nearly twenty percent, as the section's board of directors undertook its first-ever multifaceted strategic action plan.
In 2003, Mr. Peppard was admitted to the Distinguished Panel of Neutrals of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (informally, the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution), New York. The Institute, formerly the Center for Public Resources, is widely regarded as the premier source of non-administered (ad-hoc) ADR services for U.S.-based national and international businesses. Membership on the Institute's Distinguished Panel of Neutrals is by invitation only. Mr. Peppard is one of only seven Wisconsin arbitrators and mediators to bear this distinction.