Amy Totenberg Law Office of Amy Totenberg P.O. Box 17521 Atlanta, GA 30316 Tel: (404) 622-6970 Fax: (404) 935-5266 Email: atotenberg@aol.com

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ADR Services: Mediation (Civil/Commercial) Arbitration (Civil/Commercial) Early Neutral Evaluation Med-Arb Fact Finding Discovery Referee Mini Trial Judge Special Master

Serving the following Judicial Districts & Circuits: 2nd - Southern Georgia 3rd - Macon 5th - Atlanta [ Click for Map of Georgia's Districts & Circuits ]

ADA Disability Civil Rights Community Associations Contract Disputes

EEOC Education Employment Labor/Unions

Local Government Personal Injury Public Policy Torts

Biographical Notes:

Arbitrator/Mediator: 1999 - present.
Arbitrate and mediate employment, civil rights, and other civil case disputes as a neutral (affiliated with American Arbitration Association and previously JAMS; participate in U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia Arbitration Program). Currently engaged in a major arbitration involving dozens of related employment race discrimination cases arising from a case originally filed as a class action.

Special Master, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, February 2000 - present.
As Special Master in Vaughn G. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, C.A. No. MJG-84-1911, oversee monitoring and enforcement of the federal court's orders in a complex institutional education reform case that arises out of a series of judicial decrees addressing the school district's systemic failures to comply with federal special education laws. Conduct complex evidentiary investigations, hearings, mediation, monitoring; issue reports, including findings and remedial recommendations, to the federal court pursuant to Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Court Appointed Monitor / Mediator, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia June 2005 – present.
Serve as Court’s independent monitor in Blackman v. District of Columbia, C.A. No. 97-1629 (PLF) and Jones v. District of Columbia C.A. No. 97-2402 (PLF), with responsibility pursuant to the Court’s Order of Reference for complex evidentiary investigations, issuance of reports that include findings of fact and remedial recommendations, and mediation of disputes as they arise. (September 2006 forward) As mediator along with Hon. David Tatel, of the D.C. Court of Appeals, conducted successful mediation over one year period to develop class remedy consent order in two consolidated class action cases subsequent to entry of liability rulings and the parties’ earlier failed resolution efforts.

Adjunct Professor, Emory University School of Law (2003-2007)

Law Office of Amy Totenberg.
Law practice currently specializing in ADR services and previously, constitutional rights, employment litigation, education litigation, and local government issues.

General Counsel, Board of Education of the City of Atlanta (1994-1998).
Manage and direct the legal affairs of the Board of Education of the City of Atlanta.

Education:

• Harvard - Radcliffe College, B.A. 1974, Magna Cum Laude
• Harvard Law School, J.D. 1977

Languages

English

Memberships & Affiliations :

• Lumpkin Inn of Court
• Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest ("Greenlaw") (Executive Board Member, 1992 - 2008; President, 1993 - 1994)
• Board Member, State Personnel Board 2002 - 2003.
• Chair, Special Education Advisory Committee to the Georgia State Board of Education 2000 - 2002
• Member, Governor's Education Reform Commission 1999 - 2000.
• Board Member, Hands On Atlanta 1999 - 2000.

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