Dean Burrell

Dean Burrell is a labor and employment arbitrator and mediator with experience gained via the National Labor Relations Board, major management-side law firms, as Vice President of Labor for a Fortune 300 corporation, and as an adjunct labor law professor.  Dean received his B.S. from the Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations (past president ILR Alumni Association); J.D. from American University; LL.M in Labor and Employment from Georgetown University, and has completed the Cornell ILR Scheinman Institute Labor Arbitrator Development Program. 

Panel memberships include the American Arbitration Association (labor, employment, MEPPA), Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Office of Contract Administration (Local 32BJ SEIU and Realty Advisory Board, previously), Postal Panel-APWU, United Federation of Teachers-NYC panel (previously), NJ Mediation Board, NJ PERC (grievance and interest panels), NY PERB, Port Authority Employment Relations Panel, National Mediation Board, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (previously). Dean is a mediator for NJ and NY Courts and the EEOC. 

Dean is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.  He is also a member of the NJ State Bar L+E Section Executive Committee, Dispute Resolution Section (past chair), the Diversity Committee,  Minorities in the Profession Section (former chair), and the New Jersey State Supreme Court Committee on Dispute Resolution.  Dean belongs to the ABA L+E Section (ADR Committee Neutral Co-chair).  Dean is past president of Arizona LERA, Vice President of NYC LERA and past secretary of NJ LERA; past president of the Garden State Bar (the NJ National Bar Association affiliate), immediate past chair of NBA-ADR Section, treasurer of the NBA L+E Section;  and Master of the Bench of the Reitman L+E Inn of Court.  He was NJ State Bar ADR Practitioner of the Year in 2022, and is the first recipient of the Garden State Bar Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Dean is also a Chapter Editor of the forthcoming edition of Elkouri and Elkouri, “How Arbitration Works.”  Dean has served as president of the Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Chapter Alumni Association (Cornell University) and held numerous roles at the local, state and national level.