Amy Adelman
Amy Adelman Neutral
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Overview

Amy Adelman

Mediator Amy Adelman joins Miles with a depth and breadth of expertise in higher education and labor and employment law. Throughout her 34-year legal career, both in-house and in private practice, she has balanced her strong advocacy skills with a keen ability to resolve complex and emotionally charged disputes.

Amy’s mediation practice focuses on the wide range of disputes specific to higher education, including tenure and promotion issues, open expression and free speech, academic freedom, student disciplinary matters, Title IX, Title VI, campus safety, shared governance, and disability accommodation disputes. She also resolves the full range of labor and employment issues, such as Title VII, ADEA, ADA, FLSA, OSHA, FMLA, NLRA, non-competes, and employment-related contract and tort claims. Her empathy and ability to find creative solutions to complex problems serves her well in mediation.

Amy spent the past 22 years with Emory University’s Office of General Counsel, representing both Emory University and Emory Healthcare. At Emory, she served as associate general counsel, senior managing attorney, deputy general counsel, and interim senior vice president and general counsel. Amy’s primary focus was labor and employment counseling and student-related disputes, advising on and resolving hundreds of matters. She was also responsible for overseeing Emory’s litigation portfolio, including all disputes related to faculty, staff, and students, commercial litigation, tort claims, and various class actions. She was a founding member of Emory’s Threat Assessment Team. Prior to joining Emory in 2003, Amy spent 11 years in the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Kilpatrick Townsend, where she became a partner in 1999. She also practiced for one year in the Washington D.C. office of Akin Gump.

 

Admitted to Practice

  • All Georgia State and Federal Courts
  • Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
  • District of Columbia (inactive status)

 

Education

  • Washington University School of Law, JD, 1991
  • Tulane University, BA, cum laude, 1988

Professional or Trade Affiliations

  • National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
  • Georgia Bar – Labor and Employment Law, School and College Law sections

 

Community Involvement

  • The Temple, Board of Trustees, 2019 to present (Vice President, 2022 to present)
  • Rothschild Social Justice Institute, Chair, 2022 to 2023

 

Publications

  • Past Sins or Future Transgressions: The Debate Over Retroactive Application of the 1991 Civil Rights Act, Employee Relations Law Journal, 1992

 

Speaking Engagements

  • “To Bias or Not to Bias: Capturing Climate without Chilling Speech” National Association of College and University Attorneys, 2025
  • “Today’s OFCCP: What Colleges and Universities Should Expect,” National Association of College and University Attorneys, 2016
  • “Religious Diversity on Campus: Opening Minds, Doors and the Big Tent,” National Association of College and University Attorneys, 2007
Rates and Fees

Rates - Amy Adelman

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Atlanta Rates 4hr Min.
2 Party Case: $350 per party; per hour
3 Party Case: $300 per party; per hour
4 Party Case: $250 per party; per hour
5+ Party Case: Flat Rate Available Upon Request

Travel time and expenses, including meals and lodging, billed separately and split equally among the parties at the Neutral's hourly rate.
Pre/Post Consultation & Document Review: Hourly Mediation/Arbitration Rate

Mediation Admin Fees
Atlanta Mediation Admin Fee - $300 per party

MEDIATION CANCELLATION POLICY

Mediations cancelled within 10 days of the mediation will be charged a cancellation fee of $1000. However, mediations cancelled, rescheduled or settled within 24 hours of the mediation will be charged 4 hrs. of the Neutral's hourly rate . Cancellation fees shall be sent to the cancelling party unless otherwise agreed to by the parties.