Salman Ravala, Esq. is a tri-lingual US-licensed Attorney, Arbitrator, and Mediator who brings over fifteen years of dispute resolution, peacebuilding, and cross-border experience working in-house, in private practice, and formerly clerking for two Judges.
In addition to professional training and service on various mediation rosters and tribunals, Salman has also served as a mediation trainer for Basic and Advanced Mediation Training courses in New York for programs hosted by the Court, Law Schools, and various Bar Associations. An Instructor at Columbia University in the City of New York teaching International Humanitarian Law and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School teaching Negotiation, he is a seasoned mediator who has mediated two-party and multi-party cases for parties on both sides of workplace, labor, and commercial conflicts, as well as serving as counsel to governments, NGOs, businesses, individuals, and families in cross-border and culturally sensitive disputes.
A former Visiting Legal Scholar at the UN Office of Legal Affairs, Trade Law Division, Salman has served as a delegate on behalf of the International Mediation Institute to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group on Dispute Settlement which formulated the legal framework and model law surrounding the Singapore Convention. Salman is a 2016 American Arbitration Association Judge Higginbotham Fellow and a graduate of Syracuse Law School, where he was a recipient of the L. Frederick Goldie International Law Memorial Award. Salman speaks English, Urdu, and Hindi.
