Mary S. Jones is a full-time neutral serving on the AAA Commercial Panel since 1981.
About Mary S. Jones
Mary S. Jones is an attorney, arbitrator and mediator with over twenty years legal experience. She spent fifteen of those years as in-house counsel for three different Fortune 100 companies handling a wide variety of corporate and business law matters, including securities, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, labor/employment and construction. Since 1994, Mary has focused her practice on alternative dispute resolution and now enjoys her status as a full time neutral. She has been active with the American Arbitration for over 20 years and began serving on the AAA Commercial Panel in 1981. Mary has arbitrated and/or mediated over 500 cases.
Mary has been involved in the Century City Bar Association for over 16 years, serving as chair of the Corporate Counsel Section and later chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section. She has been a member of the Board of Governors since 1996.
In addition to her activities as an arbitrator and mediator, Mary is the past Chair of the Advisory Panel of the California Center For Construction Education, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and from 2000 to 2004 she has been a featured speaker for the Contractors’ Licensing Boards of California and Nevada, speaking on arbitration, mediation and construction law.
