Areas of Expertise
Mediation, Facilitation, Conflict Management, Public Engagement, Consensus Building, Arbitration
Biography
Bill Logue founded The Logue Group in 1994 and is a West Hartford based independent mediator, facilitator, consensus builder, trainer and consultant to individuals, groups, associations, corporations, law firms, foundations, and public organizations. He has helped creatively craft agreements that build relationships and promote practical solutions to difficult problems. Bill has worked in the field of conflict resolution since 1986 in the public and private sector. He also teaches negotiation as adjunct professor at Quinnipiac Law School where he is also distinguished practitioner in residence and director of training programs and co-director of the Connecticut Agricultural Mediation Program. He teaches Dispute Resolution in the JM program at Emory Law, is a mediation trainer at the University of Southern Maine, and has taught mediation at Vermont Law School. He is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Connecticut School of Law and is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and Massachusetts. After practicing law and working for a dispute resolution firm, for four years starting in 1990, Bill served as career law clerk for Dispute Resolution Matters to Senior US District Judge Robert Zampano.
Bill’s public policy consensus building and facilitation work includes projects for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority/US Department of Energy, the Long Island Sound Study and the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary, and the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management.
Bill frequently mediates employment, workplace, commercial, construction and other matters. He has designed and led mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution training programs for organizations including the Connecticut Judicial Branch Judges and the Housing Mediation Unit, the Connecticut CHRO, Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services and Department of Capital Asset Management, and the National Association of Attorneys General, health care, financial and other industries in the private sector. Bill contributed three chapters to the Mediation Practice Book published in 2001 and was a regular contributing columnist on ADR to the Connecticut Law Tribune for several years. Bill is past chair of the Connecticut Bar Association ADR Section and past co-chair of the Standing Committee on Dispute Resolution in the Courts, he is a past president of the New England Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution, a panelist with a number of organizations including the Connecticut Department of Education, the US Postal Service, US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution and a senior affiliate practitioner with the Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration. He is past chair of the Connecticut Bar Foundation James Cooper Fellows and is a board member emeritus.