Daniel Stern Serviansky is an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches in the Negotiation Workshop. His connection to the course spans more than two decades, from his time as a student to his work as an instructor.
He is a mediator in private practice, with cases involving real estate transactions, equity disputes, employment matters, and professional relationships. His work includes dispute resolution systems design and trainings in negotiation and mediation.
Previously, he negotiated deals and resolved disputes at a real estate investment and consulting group, where he managed teams of lawyers and other professionals acquiring, repositioning, financing, marketing, and selling real estate assets. Earlier in his career, he worked as a real estate finance and zoning attorney.
He served as the founding Faculty Director of the Graduate Program in Alternative Dispute Resolution at UGA Law, teaching mediation, negotiation, and dispute systems design, and coaching its negotiation team. He has also taught courses at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the University of Miami School of Law; the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics; and the Klingenstein Center of Teachers College. He trains and coaches lawyers, mediators, physicians, bioethicists, educators, managers, and entrepreneurs.
He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, where he served as Co-Programming Officer and Co-Chair of the Legal Education in Dispute Resolution committee. He served on the New York City Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
He earned a B.A., with distinction, from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and trained in the Mediation Clinic. He is a registered mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution and a member of the New York State Bar and the Florida Bar.