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David A. Hoffman is an attorney, arbitrator, and mediator with the Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, a multidisciplinary firm devoted to conflict resolution and the practice of collaborative law. He also teaches the Mediation course at Harvard Law School where he is the John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law.
David was a partner at Hill & Barlow, where he practiced for 17 years (1985-2002). Since 1991 he has been arbitrating and mediating a wide variety of cases, ranging from complex commercial disputes to divorce, for a number of dispute resolution organizations, including the The Mediation Group, American Arbitration Association, the Private Adjudication Center, the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution, Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse, Massachusetts Appeals Court, and Massachusetts Federal District Court.
He is past chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and past president of the New England chapter of the Association of Conflict Resolution (ACR). David was a founding member of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, on which he served as a board member. He also served as chair of the Boston Bar Association ADR Committee and as a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution from 1994 to 2002. Along with TMG Principal David Matz, David is the co-author of a two-volume treatise entitled "Massachusetts Alternative Dispute Resolution" (Michie 1994) and is the co-editor (with Daniel Bowling) of "Bringing Peace into the Room: How the Personal Qualities of the Mediator Impact the Process of Conflict Resolution" (Jossey-Bass 2003).
David graduated from Princeton University in 1970 (summa cum laude) and received an M.A. in American Studies from Cornell University in 1974. He was the owner and operator of Danby Hardwoods, Inc. (1974-81) and a consultant for the U.S. Small Business Administration. In 1984 David graduated from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an instructor in Legal Methods, and a research assistant for Prof. Laurence Tribe. David served as a law clerk for the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1984-85).
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