Deborah Bovarnick Mastin

Martindale Hubbel AV

AVVO 10

Law Office of Deborah Mastin, PLLC 2013-present

Broward County Attorneys Office 2011- 2013

Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office 1978-2011

Becker and Poliakoff, PA 1976-1977

Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. 1975-1976

Serves on international and US arbitral tribunals as chair or tribunal member and sole arbitrator. As former Assistant County Attorney at Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, represented public owners in connection with the procurement, construction and operation of infrastructure projects, including County Hall, courthouses, museums, performing arts centers, stadiums, electric co-generation and chiller plants, Metrorail public transit and automated people mover facilities, utilities and fiber optics installations, computer hardware, software and SAAS agreements, $6 billion expansion at Miami International Airport and $2 billion expansion at Ft Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport; also represented County museums, Cultural Affairs Council, Art in Public Places Trust, and Film Board.

Florida Certified Construction Lawyer

Florida certified circuit court mediator

Florida qualified arbitrator

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators

Fellow, Dispute Board Federation

American Arbitration Association

•  Mega Projects Panel
• Master Mediator Panel
• Large complex Case Panels: construction and commercial
• Dispute Resolution Board Panel
• International Centre for Dispute Resolution Panels
• National Construction Dispute Resolution Committee

American Arbitration Association University faculty

• mediation courses
• arbitration courses

International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution

• construction mediation and arbitration panels
• commercial mediation and arbitration panels

Dispute Resolution Centre of Trinidad and Tobago

• neutrals panel

International Chamber of Commerce

London Court of International Arbitration

National Academy of Professional Neutrals

Florida Academy of Professional Mediators

ABA Forum on Construction Law, past Governing Committee

ABA Dispute Resolution Section

ABA Business Law Section

Florida Bar Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section

• Construction ADR Committee Chair
• Advanced Construction Law Certification Review Course Co-chair

Florida Bar Dispute Resolution Section, Executive Committee

Florida Bar Entertainment Art and Sports Law Section, past Chair

International Bar Association

• International Construction Projects Committee

Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, past President Region 1 (USA and Canada)

AGC ConsensusDocs Dispute Board Addendum Committee vice-chair

Miami International Arbitration Association

International Chamber of Commerce

London Court of International Arbitration

Arbitral Women

State and Local Construction Projects, Chapter “Alternate Dispute Resolution Provisions: Statutory and Contractual”, co-author with J. Carpenter, ABA 2017

Construction ADR, Chapter “ADR from the Owner’s Perspective,”, ABA 2014

Subcontracting, Chapter “International and Globalization”, ABA 2014 co-author with M.Straub and W. Breese

“Dispute Boards to the Rescue,” Under Construction, Nov. 2013

JAMS Global Construction Solutions, WInter 2013 “Admissibility of Nonbinding Written Dispute Board Recommendations”

ABA Deskbook of Construction Defects, Chapter 1 “Managing the Risk of Construction Defects” co-author with Steven Charney

CIArb, The Australian ADR Reporter, “Admissibility of Non-Binding Dispute Board Recommendations in the USA”

Florida Bar Civil Practice Damages, Chapter 7 “Construction Damages”

Florida Bar Journal, “Green Issues in Real Estate Development Projects” 2011, co-authored with Peyton White Lumpkin

Florida Bar

Massachusetts Bar

US Supreme Court

11th Circuit Court of Appeals

US District Court Southern District of Florida

US Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Florida

MIT Educational Council, Regional Co-chair