ISLN: 908052866
Member
Email: KDBADR@aol.com

Practice areas

• Alternative dispute resolution
• Arbitration
• Mediation settlement counsel employment law
• Tort and personal injury
• Business and commercial law
  
• Securities
• Class actions and mass torts

Admitted

• Pennsylvania, 1974
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1977
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1982  

Education

• Temple University, J.D.  

Associations & memberships

• Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and American Bar Associations
• Pennsylvania Association for Justice

Biographical details

With a background in civil trial practice, Ms. Daerr-Bannon is an experienced attorney-neutral serving in a variety of ADR matters, including early neutral evaluation, mediation, arbitration, facilitation, conciliation, Judge Pro Tem and Settlement Master.  

Approximately twenty years ago, she trained in and began the practice of mediation in tort and insurance matters, including asbestos mediation. She served as arbitrator and mediator locally, nationally and in London in individual and mass tort/class action claims, including in programs such as Dalkon Shield, Piper Aircraft, Revised Silicone Breast Implant, Smith Barney Dispute Resolution Process and Merrill Lynch Claims Resolution Process, and class actions involving employment discrimination, and she has served as class arbitrator under AAA Supplementary Rules for Class Actions. She has served on federal and state court panels, as mediator for EEOC, NARA and REDRESS, as hearing examiner for SEPTA in post-determination hearings, as arbitrator for AAA in individual and class action matters, as arbitrator and/or mediator for DRI, Settlement Systems, BBB, NAM, NAF, NASD and USAM. She mediates tort claims for Fortune 100 companies and was consulted in the design of an employment ADR program for a Fortune 500 corporation. She has conducted over one thousand arbitration, mediation and facilitation hearings and continues to counsel clients in ADR settings.  

Ms. Daerr-Bannon is Assistant Professor (Practice) at Temple University Fox School of Business; has taught business law, ethics and ADR to EMBA students at Temple University Japan in Tokyo since 2005; has served as guest lecturer at Villanova School of Law; and will be teaching in India in 2011.  

For several years, she was Co-Chair of the ADR Committees of both the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, presented for the Business Lawyers' Institute and Employment Law Institute on ADR topics, and was a course planner and presenter for the PBI statewide ADR Institute since it began. She is a regular contributor to Westlaw's practice series Causes of Action 2d and has been mostly recently published in ALI-ABA's The Practical Litigator.