For more than 25 years, Harry N. Mazadoorian has helped bring order and common purpose to the legal system as a pioneer and national expert in alternative dispute resolution.

As the distinguished senior fellow in the Quinnipiac School of Law’s Center for Dispute Resolution, he coaches and advises students preparing for the American Bar Association Representation in Mediation competition and chairs both the ADR Advisory Committee and the Quinnipiac/ Connecticut Bar Foundation ADR Symposium planning committee.

His many books and articles have become references in dispute resolution training. He is a regular columnist on ADR for the Connecticut Law Tribune and serves as a counselor to corporations and government agencies in connection with arbitration and mediation services.

He graduated magna cum laude from Yale, where he also earned his LLB in 1963. He entered private practice in 1964, where he gained extensive experience in general corporate and real estate law. Joining the CIGNA Corporation in 1976, he was the first attorney in an American corporation dedicated exclusively to ADR activities. He also served at the corporate level as chief insurance counsel and vice president for government relations.

He served as a member of the Council of the ABA’s Section on Dispute Resolution and was the first chair of both its mediation and corporate ADR committees.  He is the charter founder and director of the American Corporate Counsel Association. In recognition of his broad expertise, he was among the first appointed by the Connecticut chief justice to serve as a Superior Court attorney trial referee.