About Mark
Mark Travis built a career at the intersection of law, schooling and dispute decision. He holds a LL.M. in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University School of Law, a J.D. from the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, and a B.S. in Public Administration from the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee. Those credentials set the stage for a long expert life cut up among practice, coaching and 0.33-party dispute work.
Early in his profession he affiliated with Wimberly Lawson, PLLC, an association that dates to the late 1980s. He joined the Tennessee State Bar in 1984 and maintained an association with the Wisconsin State Bar, which is listed as inactive. Over time his work shifted from traditional firm work to roles that positioned a top class on hassle fixing outdoor the court.
Travis began coaching as an accessory within the late 1990s and returned to the study room repeatedly. His teaching résumé includes appointments at Tennessee Technological University, the Straus Institute at Pepperdine Law School, John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, and the University of Tennessee College of Law. Students encountered him in clinics and guides that emphasized practical dispute resolution strategies and labor-control dynamics.
In 2009 he formalized a move into alternative dispute resolution by setting up Travis alternative dispute resolution Services, LLC, where he serves as a mediator and arbitrator. That same year he became director of the Tennessee Labor-Management Center. Those positions mirror a continuous specialization in resolving workplace and contractual disputes through processes aside from litigation.
His work as a mediator and arbitrator draws on decades of courtroom background and study room knowledge. Colleagues and clients have encountered him in labor-control negotiations, private commercial mediations and arbitrations. He has navigated cases that require each procedural rigor and a capacity to manage human dynamics.
Throughout his career he has mixed practice with periodic teaching, returning to Pepperdine and the University of Tennessee to share techniques used in mediation and binding dispute resolution. He continues to maintain professional bar affiliations and to accept third-party roles that have faith in neutral choice-making. He currently concentrates his practice on opportunity dispute resolution and labor-management matters.
