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Graham has over 20 years experience in IT and the law, is the author of legal applications software (including he original version of the QUILL solicitor's accounts and time recording package) and was the founder of LAWTEL, the popular web-based legal information update service.<BR><BR>Graham is a member of the United Nations&nbsp; Expert Panel on Online Dispute Resolution and speaks regularly at international conferences on the impact of the law on the Internet and e-commerce and on technology in the judiciary and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Graham was host of the 5th International Conference on Online Dispute Resolution held in Liverpool, UK, in 2007 in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) .Graham is also a member of the Working Party of the European Committee on Standardisation (CEN) developing a taxonomy for Online Dispute Resolution.</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><FONT color=#000000></FONT>&nbsp;</P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><FONT face=arial color=#000000 size=1>As a solicitor&nbsp;Graham had considerable experience in clinical negligence and in major high profile personal injury </FONT><FONT face=arial color=#000000 size=1>and product liability group actions, including the successful action against the UK Government for HIV infected haemophiliacs (which he founded and led) and was a member of the steering committee that negotiated the largest ever&nbsp; group settlement, being for miners made ill by coal dust inhalation).<BR>&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT color=#000000 size=1>---------------------------------------------</FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD vAlign=top width=111 height=149 border="0" > <P align=center><FONT color=#000000><IMG height=87 src="http://www.themediationroom.com/images.lxp?host=25&amp;filename=jmwphoto.gif" width=69 border=0></FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT face=arial color=#000000 size=1>John Melville Williams, QC, Chairman</FONT></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=860 height=149 border="0" > <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=1>John has 46 years' experience practising as a barrister (QC since 1977), specialising in personal injury, medical (clinical) negligence, insurance claims, environmental claims, product liability, year 2000 claims and trans-national jurisdictional issues.<BR><BR>He recently retired as head of Old Square Chambers and has sat as a recorder (1985-1994), has been president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers - APIL (1990-1994), co-chair of International Practice Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (1991-1992), chairman of the Y2K Lawyers' Association, a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (1998-2000), an ADR qualified mediator, and currently is a legal Assessor to the General Medical and General Dental Council, a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel, and a member of the Environmental Law Foundation's Advisory Panel.</FONT></P></FONT><FONT face=arial size=4> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=1>---------------------------------------------</FONT></P></FONT></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD vAlign=top width=111 height=22 border="0" > <P align=center><FONT color=#000000><IMG height=88 src="http://www.themediationroom.com/images.lxp?host=25&amp;filename=avromsherrphoto.gif" width=70 border=0></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT color=#000000 size=1>Professor Avrom Sher</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT color=#000000 size=1>Head of Consultancy</FONT></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=860 height=22 border="0" > <P><FONT size=4></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=1>Professor Avrom Sherr, holder of the Woolf Chair at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, is acting as a consultant and expert adviser to TheClaimRoom.com. Avrom is one of the country's foremost legal experts.<BR><BR>At the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Professor Sherr is currently active in the fields of legal profession studies, studies on legal education, assessment of the quality of legal services in the United Kingdom, and the architecture of the Legal Services Commission's Community Legal Service and Criminal Defence Services. </FONT></P><FONT face=arial size=4> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=1>---------------------------------------------</FONT></P></FONT></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD vAlign=top width=111 height=22 border="0" > <P align=center><FONT color=#000000><IMG height=102 src="http://www.themediationroom.com/images.lxp?host=25&amp;filename=johnsnelsonphoto.jpg" width=74 border=0></FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT color=#000000 size=1>John Snelson</FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT color=#000000 size=1>&nbsp;(Australia)</FONT></P></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=860 height=22 border="0" > <P><FONT size=1 face="arial">John is a consultant with our Australian company, The Claim Room Pty Ltd</FONT><FONT size=1> and a former senior partner at the international accountancy and consultancy firm, Ernst &amp; Young, in Sydney, Australia, where he has been the&nbsp; <FONT face=arial><STRONG style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><FONT face=Arial>Director of Ernst &amp; Young's Management Consulting Practice and National Director of their Performance Improvement Division across Australia. John </FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Arial><STRONG style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">has worked with many blue-chip companies, such as&nbsp; AXA, Bank of America, Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Commonwealth Bank, Fujitsu, Telstra and Time Warner. John </STRONG></FONT><STRONG style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><FONT face=Arial>has also worked in the public sector including the NSW Premier's Department on a series of Management &amp; Strategy Reviews and </FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT><STRONG style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><FONT face=Arial>also </FONT><FONT face=Arial>played a significant role in the design of the NSW State Owned Corporations Act and the implementation of the commercialisation, corporatisation and privatisation programs.</FONT><FONT face=Arial> John also sat on the Commission of Inquiry into the Common Law aspects of the NSW Workers' Compensation Scheme. Internationally he has worked extensively throughout Asia and has been a special advisor to the Asia Development Bank.</FONT></STRONG></FONT> </FONT></P> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Arial size=1>--------------------------------------------</FONT><STRONG style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><FONT face=Arial size=1> </FONT></STRONG></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR border="0" > <TD vAlign=top width=111 height=22 border="0" > &nbsp;</TD> <TD vAlign=top width=860 height=22 border="0" > &nbsp;</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></B></P></FONT></FONT><FONT face=arial color=#800000 size=4> <P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" align=center><FONT color=#000000 size=2>. </FONT></P></FONT> <P align=center><FONT face=arial color=#800000 size=1><BR></P></FONT></TD><TD border="0" width="25%"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></BODY></HTML>