Max Factor III is a full-time neutral, specializing in the resolution through mediation, arbitration and early neutral evaluation of real estate, business and partnership disputes, and in the negotiated resolution of complex business litigation. He has been an adjunct professor at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University since 2007. Mr. Factor was the 2009 chair of the 4th Annual Robert I. Weil Lecture, raising a record amount for charity. He was president of the Downtown Los Angeles Litigation Inn of Court, 2008-2009; chairman of the Committee for the Administration of Justice for the State Bar of California, 2006-2007; president of the Southern California Mediation Association, 2005-2006; and he is currently a member of the chair's Council for the Division of Biology at CalTech. In 2005, he was elected a distinguished fellow by the International Academy of Mediators. He is regularly selected as one of Southern California's Top Neutrals by Best Lawyers® and Super Lawyers. Earlier in his career, he served as managing attorney for the Consumer Protection Section of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, becoming the youngest assistant city attorney in Los Angeles history. Mr. Factor has been involved in a variety of civic and community activities for many years. He currently serves as chair of The Foundation's Family Foundation Center Committee and has previously served as a member of The Foundation's Advisory Board. He has served as president of the Beverly Hills Board of Education, the Beverly Hills Educational Foundation, the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, as well as chairman of the Beverly Hills Visitors Bureau. Mr. Factor received his bachelor's degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and his law degree from Yale Law School.

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