Mark C. Morril

Practice Areas

Sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, or chair in more than sixty-five international and domestic arbitrations, including complex commercial contracts, patents, distribution/licensing agreements, insurance, telecom, pharmaceuticals, oil/gas, construction, M&A, commodities, partnerships, joint ventures, copyrights, trademarks, media/entertainment, executive employment, Internet domain names, technology. Numerous merits hearings and full reasoned awards; has served as emergency arbitrator. Disputes ranging from medium-sized to those exceeding $1 billion. Also serves as mediator in high-stakes commercial disputes.

Career

Earlier, General Counsel, Simon & Schuster; Deputy General Counsel, ViacomCBS, (television, motion pictures, large legacy industrial operations); Senior disputes lawyer and extensive business experience as a senior manager at ViacomCBS, Simon & Schuster Executive Committee, manager of ViacomCBS's worldwide law department and outside counsel; law firm litigation partner, worked in public policy, and as a judicial law clerk.

Professional Memberships

ICC Commission on Arbitration/ADR

NYC Bar Arbitration, International Commercial Disputes Committees

College of Commercial Arbitrators

Silicon Valley Arbitration/Mediation Center

AAA-ICDR Council

Publications

A Call to Cyberarms: International Arbitrator's Duty to Avoid Digital Intrusion, 40Fordham ILJ 981(2016)(co-author)

ICCA-NYC Bar-CPR Protocol on Cybersecurity in International Arbitration (working group)

ICC Leveraging Technology for Fair, Effective, Efficient International Arbitration (working group)

Artificial Intelligence and Arbitration, IBA Dispute Resolution Journal 2022 (co-author)

Personal

Columbia Law School/Kent Scholar, Law Review

Tufts University