Focus and Experience equals results.

In 1992, Joe Paulk was a respected and successful trial lawyer with a thriving practice in civil litigation...and a dislike of the status quo in mediation and arbitration.

Not yet a "true profession," mediation was then dominated by practitioners who lacked specialized training. The majority also lacked meaningful trial experience, making it nearly impossible for them to understand and objectively assess the core issues in the cases they attempted to resolve.

Paulk believed the legal field deserved better -- professionals with specialized training in dispute resolution and the practical trial experience to apply it effectively.  In short, the kind of experience he had. And so, Dispute Resolution Consultants was formed.

Over the last twenty years, Paulk has assembled an outstanding team of mediators, arbitrators, private judges and special masters, each with years of litigation and/or judicial experience, and all with ADR training from top-notch law programs at Harvard, Pepperdine, the American Law Institute, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

In January of 2022, Paulk handed over the reins of DRC to one of his panel members, Jim Gibbs.  Gibbs has continued to operate DRC under the same high standards Paulk instituted.  DRC remains a mediation firm trial attorneys can turn to with confidence.