New York lawyer named ABA ­representative to the United Nations

New York lawyer Mark H. Alcott of New Rochelle, N.Y., has been appointed as the American Bar Association representative to the United Nations, where the ABA is a designated Consultant and Observer.

As the ABA representative, Alcott leads its delegation to the world body and actively participates in UN sessions, providing advice and comments on legal, technical and substantive matters in areas where the Association has expertise.

Alcott has spent his legal career as a partner and of counsel in the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He concentrates on international and domestic arbitration, mediation and litigation, as a neutral and advocate. He has extensive experience handling a wide range of major cases in courts in New York and throughout the United States and abroad, and he has served in more than 100 alternative dispute resolution proceedings as arbitrator, mediator and counsel.

Alcott is a member of the arbitrator panels certified by the American Arbitration Association and the International Center for Dispute Resolution. In the ABA, he leads the New York House of Delegates delegation and serves on the Nominating Committee. Previously, Alcott served both as president of the New York State Bar Association, where he pursued a vigorous reform agenda; and as chair of the International Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.