Mark B. Helm

Mr. Helm has mediated disputes up to ten figures in a wide range of areas in matters all over the country with a focus, energy, and experience that have yielded great success. He is a member of the court-appointed four-mediator panel to resolve larger-stakes securities claims in the Pacific Gas & Electric bankruptcy. He has studied mediation at the Straus Institute and was previously a member of the ADR panel for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Mr. Helm is a panelist on the American Arbitration Association national roster of arbitrators and is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration. His active arbitration practice has encompassed wide range of corporate, business law, and consumer issues.

Before joining Phillips ADR, Mr. Helm was a nationally-recognized trial lawyer and appellate advocate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Helm was co-managing partner of the firm, and he was named in 2008 as one of Lawdragon’s “100 Managing Partners You Need to Know.”

Mr. Helm is a member of the Claremont Colleges board of directors and is president of the board of directors of the Ojai Playwrights Conference. He previously served for four years as chair of the board of directors of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. He is a former co-chair of the ABA Litigation Section’s Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, a former chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee, and a former adjunct professor at Loyola Law School.

Mr. Helm clerked for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger on the United States Supreme Court and Judge Carl McGowan on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Mr. Helm graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review and received the Sears Prize. He graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard College.

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California

State Bar of California

ID Number: 115711

Since 1984

Law Clerk, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger

U.S. Supreme Court

1983 - 1984

Law Clerk, Judge Carl McGowan

U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit

1982 - 1983

Harvard Law School

J.D. (1982)

Honors: magna cum laude; Sears Prize, 1980

Activities: president, Harvard Law Review, 1981 - 1982

Harvard University

A.B. (1978)

1978

A.B., magna cum laude

Honors: magna cum laude

State Bar of California  # 115711

Member

1984 - Current