AIRA 20th Annual Conference Information

Sara L. Johnson
Economist, Global Insight

As Managing Director of the Global Macroeconomics Group at Global Insight, Johnson helps Global Insight’s clients assess worldwide business and financial risks and opportunities. She previously served as North American Research Director and Chief Regional Economist with Standard & Poor’s DRI. As research director, she managed the U.S. Macro, U.S. Regional, U.S. Industry, Cost Forecasting, and Canadian services and served on Standard & Poor’s five-member Economic Council.

From 1991 to 2001, Johnson served on the Governor’s Economic Council, advising three Massachusetts governors on public policy and economic development and chairing the Governor’s Task Force on Tax Policy and Capital Formation through 1999. In November-December 2002, she served on Governor Mitt Romney’s Transition Steering Committee.

Professor Eric D. Green
Boston University School of Law

An experienced lecturer, panelist and trainer on ADR, Professor Green teaches negotiation, mediation, complex ADR processes, resolution of mass torts and evidence. Professor Green has successfully mediated many high-stakes cases, including the United States vs. Microsoft anti-trust case, the Mastercard/Visa merchants’ class action anti-trust case, the Monsanto PCB cases in Alabama, the childhood and adult cancer cases in Toms River, NJ, and numerous large construction cases. He has also mediated many complex, multi-party class action cases involving mergers and acquisitions, contact disputes, patent disputes, securites fraud, accounting problems, mass torts, employment and consumer claims.

Professor Green, co-founder and principle of Resolutions, LLC, is also co-founder of JAMS/Endispute and co-author of the first edition of Dispute Resolution (with Goldberg and Sander). In 2001, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Civil Trial Mediators.

Lawrence A. Friedman
Director
Executive Office for United States Trustees

Before his appointment as Director on March 4, 2002, Mr. Friedman was a partner in the Southfield, Michigan law firm of Friedman & Kohut P.C., where his practice encompassed consumer bankruptcy, commercial bankruptcy and commercial litigation, insolvency, and real estate. Mr. Friedman has administered more than 10,000 Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases as a Chapter 7 trustee, and has also served as a trustee in Chapter 11 cases. He received his Juris Doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich.