She serves as a Mediator in the federal courts of the District of Columbia. Formerly an assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, deputy general counsel of the American Institute of Architects, and a vice president of Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., she is also a founding fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers. Ms. Abramowitz is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council and is serving as the first public member of the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards. A graduate of Brandeis University and the George Washington University National Law Center, she is the author of NEGOTIATION ARCHITECT&rsquo;S ESSENTIALS OF NEGOTIATION (John Wiley & Sons, 2009). This chapter was adopted from a paper presented before the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry.