Allison J. Snyder
Houston, Texas
Allison Snyder is a partner in the construction and litigation practice groups of Porter Hedges. She has over 35 years of experience arbitrating and litigating complex construction and commercial disputes. She serves on international and domestic arbitration panels and arbitrates cases under the AAA, ICDR and ICC rules. Ms. Snyder is a Fellow in the American College of Construction Lawyers, the College of Commercial Arbitrators and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She has served as a past Chair of the State Bar of Texas Construction Law Section, a past Chair of the Houston Bar Construction Law Section and as a past Chair of the Houston Bar Association ADR Section. She is listed as one of America's leading lawyers in construction law and construction alternative dispute resolution by Chambers USA. She is ranked in Band One for Construction Alternative Dispute Resolution. Ms. Snyder has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for construction law since 2006, and has been selected as a “Texas Super Lawyer” in Construction/Surety Law since 2004. She also served as Editor of the Construction Law Journal of the State Bar of Texas Construction Law Section from 2019-2021 and Co-Editor from 2015-2018. To learn more about Allison Snyder and her legal experience, click here.
Mauricio Gomm
Miami, Washington DC, São Paulo
Mauricio Gomm FCIArb, serves as counsel, and predominantly as arbitrator in arbitration proceedings in the field of commercial contracts in general, before major international providers such as ICDR/AAA, LCIA, ICC, CPR, SIAC, HKIAC, CAM-CCBC (Brazil), Ad-hoc and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He also serves as mediator. Mr. Gomm is admitted to practice law in Brazil, New York and, as Foreign Legal Consultant, in Florida. He serves as expert witness before arbitral tribunals and judicial courts. Adjunct professor at the University of Miami, School of Law, teaching "Arbitration in Latin America" from 2007 to 2010. Professor at PUC/Paraná (Brazil) teaching classes on International Arbitration. He served as international arbitration academic expert in several meetings with Supreme Court Justices in Latin America and the Caribbean, at the request of the Organization of American States.
Christopher (“Chris”) Campbell, Esq.
Columbia, SC; Florence, IT
Chris Campbell is an international commercial law specialist who has worked on several continents as both external and in-house counsel. Chris currently works as Senior Litigation Counsel for Baker Hughes where he represents the company in international commercial disputes spanning the various BH sectors around the globe.
Prior to joining Baker Hughes, Chris litigated a number of matters, including Eminent Domain Disputes and advising governmental entities on trade law and international arbitration. Chris also served as the inaugural law clerk to the Honorable Jocelyn T. Newman of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina and has been appointed as an attorney- arbitrator for the South Carolina Judicial Department on Property Damage Liability Claims.
Chris is the curator and host of his podcast, “Tales of the Tribunal”, which profiles the dynamic and interesting personalities working in international dispute resolution.
CHARLES DICK
CHARLES DICK is a full-time Commercial Arbitrator and Mediator with JAMS. “Chuck,” as he is more commonly- known, had a distinguished career and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He now devotes his professional life to dispute resolution, and his practice as a Neutral spans the Western United States. With over 30 years practice as an arbitrator, he has been a member of AAA’s Complex Commercial Panel and an arbitrator with the International Centre for Dispute Resolution. Chuck was admitted to Fellowship with Chartered Institute in 2012, and he has taught Institute introductory courses on international commercial arbitration. His current practice with JAMS involves an array of disputes, including class action litigation and cases involving antitrust, business and commercial matters, securities, investments, employment, toxic tort, and professional liability issues.
Alicia F. Castro
Houston, Texas
Alicia Castro is a partner at Locke Lord LLP who concentrates her practice in business litigation, arbitration, and internal and government investigations. She has represented companies and individuals in a wide range of complex private arbitration disputes in the energy, private equity, and financial services industries. She is also currently the co-chair of the Houston Bar Association’s Fee Dispute Committee, which provides free arbitrations of fee disputes between lawyers and their clients. Ms. Castro has been a CIArb member since 2014.
David T. Lόpez
Houston, Texas
David T. Lόpez is an arbitrator with more than 25 years’ experience and service on panels of ICDR, AAA, JAMS and CPR. He has had broad litigation experience in labor and employment matters, representing both employees and employers, and local, state, national and international unions. Before practicing law, he was a field representative of the AFL-CIO and deputy secretary general of the Western Hemisphere branch of the worldwide trade union federation. As sole arbitrator, he has disposed of statewide and national class actions and cross-border employment disputes. He also has served as chair and wing arbitrator in oil and gas and commercial disputes. He has lectured on conflict resolution in Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, and is Vice Chair of the International Arbitration Committee of the ABA International Section and is on the Publications Board of the ADR Section.
