University of Georgia
School of Law
315 Hirsch Hall
Athens, GA 30602
United States
B.A., Yale University
J.D., MSRED, Columbia University
Business Negotiations
Advance Dispute Resolution Systems Design
Daniel Serviansky is faculty director of the University of Georgia School of Law's Graduate Program in Alternative Dispute Resolution and faculty coach of the University of Georgia School of Law Negotiation Team. He serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section’s Legal Education in Dispute Resolution (LEDR) Committee.
Before UGA, he taught at Columbia Law's Negotiation Workshop and worked in its Mediation Clinic. He has also taught courses at: Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the University of Miami School of Law; the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics; and the Klingenstein Center of Teachers College at Columbia University.
As an ADR practitioner, he has worked on matters that range from court-annexed mediations in trial and family courts to private disputes among business partners and conflicts in the workplace.
Previously, he negotiated deals and resolved disputes at a real estate investment and consulting group, where his role was to manage teams of lawyers and other professionals working to acquire, reposition, finance, refinance, market and sell real estate assets.
He trains and coaches lawyers, mediators, physicians, bioethicists, educators, managers and entrepreneurs. His areas of focus range from difficult conversations in the workplace to interpersonal relationships, and from multiparty investments to international business disputes. He works in both Spanish and English.
Selected Presentations
Dispute Resolution Skills for Veterinary Medicine (December 13, 2024) (Presentation for the SAMS Retreat 2024 of the College of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Georgia).
Fresh Ideas for Teaching Active Listening (February 2, 2024) (American Bar Association Legal Education in Dispute Resolution (LEDR) Committee).
The Psychology of Mediation (October 19, 2023) (Conflict Resolution Day: an event of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Georgia State Bar) (Online).
Mediations Skills for Biochemical Engineering (September 7, 2023) (Reimagining Advanced Manufacturing Lab, Prof. Ross Marklein, Principal Investigator, UGA).
Persuasion, Influence, and the Psychology of Compliance, Advanced Negotiation (March 25, 2020; February 23, 2021; February 23, 2022) (Columbia Law School).
Family Mediation Panel (October 19, 2021) (Columbia Mediation Clinic).
Yale University Study of the City Housing Game (February 11, 2014; March 1, 2016; October 24, 2017; March 5, 2019; and March 4, 2020) (Guest Judge).
Introduction to Negotiation, Leading Edge Training for Hillel Springboard Fellows (February 10, 2020) (Instructor).
2019 Columbia Law Bioethics Mediation Intensive J-Term Course (Guest Lecturer & Coach).
Bioethics Mediation Skills Presentation (December 5, 2019) Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee.
Ethics and Neutrality in Mediation (June 4, 2019) ACR-GNY Annual Conference (with Professors Adira Hulkower and Prof. Lauren Flicker of the Einstein Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics).
Introduction to Conflict Management (December 14, 2018) Grand Rounds, Montefiore Einstein.
Housing Rehab and Real Estate Investing (February 7, 2012; February 19, 2013; February 11, 2014; February 17, 2015; and January 26, 2016) (Yale School of Architecture Graduate Seminar).
Negotiation Theory & Practice (March 23, 2011, March 30, 2011) Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Guest Lecturer).
Selected Panels and Interviews
A Spanish Speaker’s Perspective: A Conversation with 2009 UGA Law Grad Michael Eshman on Language in Litigation and Mediation (April 2, 2024) University of Georgia School of Law, co-sponsored by the Graduate Program in ADR and the Hispanic and Latino Law Students Association (Interviewer and host).
Advanced Dispute Resolution Systems Design course, interviewing: Gino Brogdon, Jr. of Miles Mediation (September 20, 2023); Tanya Tate of Miles Mediation (October 11, 2023); Shan Momin of His Highness Aga Khan International Conciliation and Arbitration Board of the Ismaili Community (October 18, 2023); and, Raye Rawls of the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development (October 25, 2023) (Interviewer).
Academics in ADR (April 19, 2023) New York City Bar Association ADR Committee Meeting, (moderated by The Hon. Joan B, Lefkowitz, Supreme Court, Central Pre-Trial Alternative Dispute Resolution Part, Westchester County) (Panelist) (with Professors Robyn Weinstein, Cardozo Law, and Genesis Fisher, New York Law School).
Emerging Trends in Dispute Resolution in Georgia and the US (April 18, 2023) University of Georgia School of Law and Miles Mediation & Arbitration (Moderator).
Mediation in Large Cases (June 10, 2022) American Bankruptcy Institute, New York City Bankruptcy Conference (Panelist).
Why Diversity & Inclusion Matter (October 6, 2021) JAMS/FDMC Family Mediation Panel (Moderator).
Mediation and the Psychology of Needs (April 21, 2021), New York City Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee Meeting (Speaker).
This Land is Your Land (No, It’s Mine!): The Role of Dispute Resolution in Land Use, Zoning, and Urban Planning (August 12, 2020) ABA Section of Dispute Resolution (Panelist).
Mediation in Child Protection Cases (February 27, 2020) New York City Family Court, Child Protection Specialty Meeting (Panelist).