John Paul Erler

207.774.9000 ext 258
jerler@curtisthaxter.com

Jack Erler provides alternative dispute resolution services to individuals, businesses, insurers, governmental and non-profit entities; helping them find fair and legally sound resolutions to disputes. He is a trained and experienced mediator, facilitator and arbitrator. He is a qualified Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Service (CADRES) mediator in general civil, environmental and land use cases. He is a rostered neutral in the Maine Superior Court’s civil litigation alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program. Jack is the principal of CTResolution™.

Jack represents youth camps including boys, girls, co-ed, resident, day and trip camps, and non-profit, agency, religious and private for-profit camps in all aspects of youth camp operation including issues related to children, employment, health and safety, regulatory compliance, organizational structure, land use, environmental, tax, purchase and sale transactions and transition planning. In addition, he represents the Maine Youth Camping Foundation, the State wide non-profit organizations of youth camps. He also lobbies for the Maine Youth Camp Association, the policy arm of the Foundation.

Jack also works with businesses, quasi public and non profit entities to solve complex legal problems in corporate, commercial, property taxation, environmental and land use matters. His clients include businesses and individuals in the forestry, manufacturing and service sectors. Jack has extensive experience in conservation easements with a particular emphasis in protection of commercial forest land.

Representative Matters

Mediation and arbitration of disputes including those involving real property, land use, environmental, elder, commercial, construction and professional partnership law.
Facilitation of public policy issues including airport expansion, endangered species and Superfund site remediation.
Children’s camp issues.
Forest land ownership and management
Representation of businesses for State and Federal environmental matters including permitting, compliance and remediation of hazardous waste, waste water discharge and oil discharge.

Community Service

Jack has served on the Board of Governors of the Maine Alternative Dispute Resolution Professionals (MADRP), now Maine Association of Mediators (MAM). He is a member of the New England Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution. He has chaired the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section and the Natural Resources & Environmental Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association. He is counsel to the Land Trust of the Small Woodland Owners Association (SWOAM). He has served on the Board and as the President of the Board of Directors of the Sacopee Valley Health Center.

Publications

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Is A Good Way To Resolve Disputes

Form Mediation/Arbitration Clause, Maine Lawyers Review, Vol. 15 Number 12, June 21, 2007

PRACTICE AREAS

PUBLICATIONS

EDUCATION

Advanced Mediation Training, Harvard University, 2001

J.D., University of Connecticut Law School, 1968, cum laude

B.A. in Psychology, Grinnell College, 1961

BAR ADMISSIONS

Maine

U.S. District Court for the District of Maine

MEMBERSHIPS

American Bar Association

Maine State Bar Association

Cumberland County Bar Association

Maine Association of Mediators

Association of Conflict Resolution, NE Section