About the author

• Author: Stewart Edelstein
• Pages: 395-395

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

At Yale Law School, Stewart Edelstein has taught civil litigation skills

for the past twenty years, while chairing the Litigation Group at his

firm, Cohen and Wolf PC where he has been a commercial trial law yer

for forty years, mediating, arbitrating, and litigating cases. He has been

a faculty member in various programs presented by the National Insti-

tute for Trial Advocacy and ALI-ABA (now ALI-CLE), and frequently

presents seminars to bar association groups. He is on the Neutra l Panel

of the American Arbitration Association, on the Executive Committee

of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Connecticut Bar

Association, and has served as a Settlement Special Master in federal

court and Counsel to the Federal Grievance Com mittee in Connecticut.

He has published numerous articles for trial law yers in various pub-

lications, including Litigation, Trial, and The Practical Litigator, and is the

author of a book about etymology, Dubious Doublets, published by John

Wiley & Sons Inc., and two bike-tour brochures. He is also a founding

member of Prevailing Winds, a woodwind quintet, and a member of

Cumulus, a woodwind dec tet, in both of which he plays the French horn.

Mr. Edelstein has served on the boards of directors of several charitable

organizations, and is certified by U.S. Squash as a squash coach.

He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (Preparatory

Department), Oberlin College, and Cornell Law School, where he was

on the moot court team. At Stanford Law School, he completed the

Advanced Course in Trial Advocacy, and at Harvard Law School, he

completed the Teacher Training Program, both under the auspices of

the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

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