MARVIN L. SCHULDINER

Marvin is an arbitrator and mediator specializing in commercial, employment, labor, construction, and family disputes, based in central New Jersey, USA.  He is an Accredited Professional Mediator by the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM), the largest mediation group in New Jersey.  

He is a Past President of NJAPM and has served as NJAPM’s Director of Civil Mediation Training since 2011, coordinating and teaching basic and advanced mediation courses as well as a mediation apprenticeship held in lower-level courts.    He teaches and has taught as an adjunct professor at Montclair State University -- teaching mediation, negotiation, and conflict management -- as well as for the NJ State Department of Agriculture and the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education.  

Marvin is a member of several mediation rosters:

• New Jersey Superior Court (Rule 1:40 qualified mediator on multiple rosters)
• Contract mediator for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (private and federal sector cases in the Philadelphia district)
• NJ State Department of Agriculture Right-to-Farm roster
• New Jersey Early Intervention System
• Former mediator for: 
  • New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Storm Sandy mediation program
  • New York Unified Court System
  • Better Business Bureau for Metropolitan New York.

Marvin has been an arbitrator since 2005.  He serves on several rosters, including as a panel chair for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).  He formerly served as an arbitrator for the Queens County (NY) Part 137 program (attorney-client fee disputes).

He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Michigan State University and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Rutgers University.   Given his educational background, Marvin brings a problem-solving and risk-management perspective to his dispute-resolution practice.

Marvin earned a Certificate in Conflict and Dispute Resolution from New York University and received his arbitration training from the National Association of Securities Dealers, the Queens County Bar Association, and Construction Dispute Resolution Services.  He received additional mediation training from the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation, NJAPM, and the Montgomery County (PA) Mediation Center.

Before entering the dispute resolution profession, Marvin spent seven years working for Toyota, helping to start a manufacturing parts logistics division that included importing parts from suppliers in Canada and Mexico and exporting parts to Japan.  He also determined the mid- and long-term vehicle distribution plan for the United States, given new model production, decreasing imports from Japan, and increased U.S. and Canadian production. 

Marvin also worked for Tibbett & Britten Group Americas (now owned by DHL) for five years.  As a Business Development Manager, he secured new "third-party" logistics business, consulted to improve existing and planned operations, and expanded operations for clients that were global Fortune 500 companies, such as Procter & Gamble.  He also worked on expanding the company’s footprint in the Americas beyond the continental United States and Canada into Mexico, Panama, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico.

He participates as a judge in international mediation competitions, including ones sponsored by the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, France and the Consensual Dispute Resolution Competition sponsored by the International Bar Association and Vienna International Arbitral Centre.

Marvin was formerly a local elected official and deputy mayor, president of a municipal library board, officer in two homeowner associations, and president and committee chairs of multiple non-profit organizations.  He is currently president of the New Jersey chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association as well as a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association.