Background
Medalie, Richard James was born on July 21, 1929 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of William Louis and Mona (Kolad) Medalie.
Medalie, Richard James was born on July 21, 1929 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of William Louis and Mona (Kolad) Medalie.
University of Minnesota (Bachelor of Arts, 1952, Phi Beta Kappa). University of London, London, England and Harvard University (Master of Arts, 1955). Harvard University (Juris Doctor, 1958).
Worked at Friedman and Medalie (Washington, District of Columbia. Also New York, New York) specializing in Corporate, Commercial Arbitration and Litigation, Environmental, Insurance Law, Product Liability Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1958, District of Columbia.
1962, New New York
Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Alpha Theta. Member, 1956-1958, Case Editor, 1957-1958, Harvard Law Review.
Law Clerk to Honorable G.T. Washington, United States.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1958-1959. Editor and Company-author, "Commercial Arbitration for the 1990"s," American Bar Association Press 1991. Author: "The Libyan Producers" Agreement Arbitration: Developing Innovative Procedures in a Complex Multiparty Arbitration," Journal of International Arbitration, June, 1990, at 7.
"The New Appeals Amendment: A Step Forward for Arbitration," American Automobile Association Arbitration Journal, June, 1989, at 22.
Company-author: "Suits Against State Insurance Commissioners for Misconduct in the Regulation and Liquidation of Insurance Companies," in American Bar Association National"l Institute. on Insurer Insolvency, Law and Practice of Insurance Company Insolvency 295, 1986. Deputy Director, Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, 1965-1968, Adjunct Professor of Administrative and Criminal Law, 1966-1969, Georgetown University Law Center.
Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, 1960-1962. Commissioner, 1975-1987, Member, Executive Committee, 1977-1982 and Chairman, Criminal Law Task Force, 1978-1981, District of Columbia Law Revision Commission.
Vice Chairman, 1981-1984, Major Gifts Chairman, 1984-1986, Deputy Chairman, 1986-1987, and Chairman, 1987-1989, Harvard Law School Fund.
Member, National Panel of Commercial Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Secretary, Foreign Law Committee, 1962-1965). The District of Columbia Bar.
American (Vice-Chair, Arbitration Committee, Litigation Section, 1991-1994) Bar Associations.
American Law Institute. (Also Member Brock, Fensterstock, Silverstein, McAuliffe & Wade, LL C at New York, New York).
Board director alumni association Experiment in International Living, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1961-1964, president, 1962-1963. Fellow American Bar Foundation, Harvard Law School Association District of Columbia (president 1976-1977, national vice president 1977-1978), Harvard Alumni Association (law school director 1991-1995). Member American Bar Association (program chair 1984, 90, chair legislation subcommittee 1986-1989, ADR/arbitration committee, representative on advisory committee national conference Emerging ADR Issues in State and Federal Courts 1991, vice-chairman 1991-1994, arbitration committee litigation section, co-chair national conference Critical Issues in Arbitration 1993), American Arbitration Association (panel commercial arbitrators since 1964), District of Columbia Unified Bar, Association Bar City of New York, American Law Institute (life, consultative group, model penal code sentencing), Cosmos Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.
Married Susan Diane Abrams, June 5, 1960. Children: Samuel David, Daniel Alexander.
