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Dr. Miller's distinguished career spans five decades. He began his career as a reporter and later became an associate managing editor at Business Week. He has held top positions at USG (United States Gypsum) Corporation, CNA Financial Corporation, the New York Stock Exchange and McGraw-Hill, Inc. He is currently adjunct professor at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University.

Dr. Miller serves as director for MFRI (NASDAQ), IMX Pharmaceuticals, Tutor Time Learning Systems and the Boca Raton Preparatory School. He is a member of the advisory board of the Commtel Group and NFC Acquisition Partners. He is a past director at Coleman Cable Systems, Exchange National Bank (NASDAQ), Ideon Group, Inc. (NYSE), Nationwide Acceptance Corporation, Mercantile Systems, Inc., POG Publishing Co., Rodman and Renshaw, Inc. (NYSE), TeleTech Holding Corp. (NASDAQ) and USG Corporation (NYSE).

The author of several books and over 1,000 articles in national and business publications, including a syndicated business column, Dr. Miller has received numerous honors and awards. He has been listed in Who's Who in America for 37 years and received "Outstanding Alumni" awards from the Columbia School of Journalism. Dr. Miller received the National Association of Investment Clubs Award for Distinguished Service to Individual Investors. He has been an executive-in-residence at the universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Toronto and Wyoming and has taught at New York University, Fordham University, Bethany College and Northeastern Illinois University.

Dr. Miller received a diploma from Oxford University in England in 1947, an MS from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1948, an MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University in 1959 and an honorary LLD from Bethany College in 1969.

A law graduate of Oxford University's Honor School of Jurisprudence, and a member of the Bars of both England and California, Charles Parselle writes and teaches extensively on alternative dispute resolution and is a chief legal editor for GotTrouble.com. He is also a co-founder of CEDRS - Centers for Excellence in Dispute Resolution.

Mr. Parselle was called to the English bar in 1966 and admitted to the California bar in 1983. Mr. Parselle has served as general counsel to multi-national organizations and has worked on constitutional issues, contracts, intellectual property, taxation, tort and employment law. Mr. Parselle has been general counsel to an Australian company specializing in the sale of high-tech security equipment, and as general counsel to an entertainment company in Los Angeles, California, concentrating on intellectual property and employment issues.

Mr. Parselle's travels have taken him to most of the countries of Europe and Africa, as well as living for several years in Australia, and journeying to China, Hong-Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan and India. He was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in southern Africa. He teaches mediation for the renowned Institute of Conflict Management based in Los Angeles.

A former editorial board member for The California Lawyer, Mr. Chernick has written several books and numerous articles about the legal profession. He is a Judge Pro Tem with the Los Angeles Superior and Municipal courts and a panelist on JASOP - judicial arbitration mediation programs in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Mr. Chernick is a consultant to the Los Angeles Superior Court Dispute Resolution Program. He was a senior partner of the law firm Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP and is a past president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Mr. Chernick has served as chair of the Arbitration Committee of the American Bar Association and was a founder of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Los Angeles County Bar, founding chair of the ADR Committee of the State Bar, and chairman of the Trial Lawyers Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Mr. Chernick's honors include "Peacemaker of the Year", given by the Southern California Mediation Association, the "Presidential Award" from the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, the "Distinguished Service Award" from the American Arbitration Association and the "Legal Services Leadership Award" from the Western Center on Law and Poverty. He is founder and former president of the Coalition for Justice and former president of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. He received a Juris Doctorate in 1970 from the University of Southern California, Order of the Coif.

Mr. Ruffalo, an attorney and certified accountant, earned his business degree and Juris Doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. The author of The Business of Practicing Law, he has spent the last 33 years with the global firm of Arthur Andersen. From 1984-1989, he managed 400 tax professionals (more than 70% of them lawyers) as the senior and chief partner of Arthur Andersen's Chicago tax practice. In 1989, he was named the head of Arthur Andersen Worldwide in its Tax, Legal and Business Practice of 12,000 professionals, serving clients in 95 counties. Harry Ruffalo, an adjunct professor of law, has taught "The Business of Law" at the University of Wisconsin since 1993.