Joshua M. Javits is a neutral mediator and arbitrator. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA), the International Ombudsman Association, the rosters of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service FMCS), and the National Mediation Board (NMB).

He was Chairman and Member of the National Mediation Board from 1988 to 1993. He is a member of both the Steering Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the D.C. Bar, and also of the Steering Committee of the Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Media Law Section.

He is Grievance Committee Chairman of the International Monetary Fund. He sits on 35 neutral arbitration panels and has arbitrated over 1500 cases. He has represented labor unions and management -- at different times -- in the past, and began his career as a trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board. He is a graduate of Yale College and Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Javits has worked with numerous entities to develop effective conflict resolution procedures, with enormous resulting savings in litigation costs and exposure. As an Ombudsman, he has been appointed by organizations as a resource for employees and managers to counsel or mediate workplace issues. After having gained the confidence of all constituencies, Mr. Javits has used his familiarity with individual companies to resolve multiple disputes informally.

• "Airline Mediation: Becalming Brewing Battles"
  NAA National Meeting, May 2007
• “Airline Collective Bargaining: Reform or Reframe"
  J. Trans. Law, Logis & Pol’y (Spr. 2003)
• “Crisis Negotiations” 
  World Arbitration and Mediation Report (May 2002)
• “It’s the Real Thing: $192.5 Million”
  SHRM Legal Report (March–April 2001)
• “The Mother of All Mediations”
  World Arbitration and Mediation Report (December 2000)
• “Emergency Board Procedures Under the Railway Labor Act” and “Crisis Negotiations: How Labor and Management Can Best Navigate Major Changes in the Midterm Contract Period"
  ALI-ABA Course Materials on Airline and Railroad Labor and Employment Law (April 2002)
• “Mandatory Arbitration and Labor Not Ideal Mix”
  National Law Journal (June 26, 2000)
• “Mediation’s On—Grab a Spoon”
  HR Magazine (April 2000)
• “High Court to Revisit Issue of Mandatory Arbitration"
  National Law Journal (October 5, 1998)
• “The Virtue of Limited Engagement”
  Journal of Commerce (May 15, 1997)
• “Collective Bargaining in a Global Environment”
  62 J.Transp.L. 187 (1995)
• Chapter 11 in Airline Labor Relations in the Global Era: The New Frontier,” ed. Peter Cappelli
  (Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1995)
• “Settling Airline Labor Disputes”
  Journal of Commerce (February 10, 1994)
• “A Collective Bargaining Analysis”
  Air Line Pilot (June 1992)
  
  

Joshua Javits