Since 2005, Rebekah Smith, a graduate of Bowdoin College and the University of Maine School of Law, has maintained an arbitration, mediation, and impartial neutral practice focused on labor and employment matters. She provides mediation services in collective bargaining agreement negotiations and grievances, as well as fact finding and arbitration services in Maine and throughout New England. She is on the labor arbitration panels of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the American Arbitration Association, and the Labor Relations Connection, the mediation and fact-finding panels of the Maine Labor Relations Board, and multiple permanent arbitration panels. Ms. Smith is a neutral Alternate Chair on the Maine Labor Relations Board. She is a recent Past Board President of LERA-Maine as well as of the Maine Association of Mediators and remains a member of both Boards of Directors.