HENRY J. BLUM
ATTORNEY/MEDIATOR, P.C.
2211 Norfolk St., Suite 620
Houston, TX 77098
Tel: (713) 522-3395
Fax: (713) 522-3396
henry@blum-mediations.com

LICENSED ATTORNEY:

Licensed for over 23 years, 12 years in private litigation practice. Representing plaintiffs and defendants in civil cases involving contracts, fraud, partnership, construction, energy, employment, and consumer rights, and over 11 years of mediation experience.

AV Rating in Martindale-Hubbell

Practiced law at the law firms of Fulbright & Jaworski, Dow Cogburn & Friedman, and practiced both law and mediation at the law firm of Mendel & Blum, P.C. before opening the mediation practice of Henry J. Blum, Attorney/Mediator, P.C. in August 2000.

Served from August 1988-August 1989 as a law clerk to the Honorable Harold A. Baker, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

EDUCATION:

Columbia University Law School, New York, New York, J.D., May 1988

Journal: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Head Notes Editor

Note: The Extraterritorial Application of Section VII of the Endangered Species Act

The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, B.A. High Honors 1985

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi - History Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa - National Leadership Honor Society, Deans List (all semesters)

MEDIATION EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITIES:

Conducted over 3200 civil mediations involving, among other things, commercial transactions, personal injury, malicious prosecution, contract, corporate, lease, energy, legal malpractice, property tax, employment, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, products liability, landlord/tenant, real property, consumer, toxic tort, appellate, construction, and building foundation issues.

Qualified to mediate disputes under the Texas Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Act.

Qualified ADR provider under the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Speaker: Advanced Civil Litigation, University of Houston Law Foundation-May 12, 2006 (Houston)

Ethical Consideration and Malpractice Prevention-May 19, 2006 (Dallas)

6^th Annual Institute for Responsible Dispute Resolution-Cutting Edge Issues and Tools in ADR, October 28, 2005

Houston Metropolitan Paralegal Association-Advocacy in Mediation August 2005

South Texas College of Law-Advanced Attorney Mediator Training-Mediation Ethics August 2005

Lorman Education Services-Mediating The Legal Malpractice Case, May 2004

Association of Attorney Mediators-Mediator Ethics, Austin 2004

Houston Bar Association Ethics in Mediation, August 2003