Daniel Cravo is Attorney, enrolled in OAB/RS (Bar Association) with number 34,417, graduated in Law from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS in 1994. Partner of Cravo, Pastl and Balbuena Associated Attorneys.

He is President of the Special Committee on Legislation and Sports Law of OAB/RS (Brazilian Bar Association – Rio Grande do Sul section) and Lecturer at several seminars and courses related to law and management, including some abroad. He is coordinator of the International Congress on Contemporary Sports Law, 2009, 2011 and 2013 editions and co-coordinator of the Sports Law Core of Escola Superior da Magistratura of AJURIS. Co-president of the Task Group on Sporting Regulations of the International Association for Football Lawyers (AIAF).

Former legal adviser of the Brazilian Tennis Movement (responsible for the change in the command of CBT) and former member of the Regional Council of Sports of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (CRD), he provided services to several Brazilian and foreign clubs, associations, agents and players. Acting frequently before the Sports Courts and Higher Sports Courts, as well as in international cases  before FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS-CAS).

Full-time Arbitrator since 1976, serving on arbitration panels maintained by the: American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Mediation Board, New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, New Jersey State Board of Mediation, New York City Office of Collective Bargaining, New York State Employment Relations Board, Pennsylvania Mediation Board, Suffolk County Public Employment Relations Board, Delaware Public Employment Relations Board. Currently serve as a Permanent Panel Arbitrator for Anheuser-Busch and IBT; ATT and CWA; Beth Israel Medical Center and 1199; Brooks Bothers and RDWSU; NYC Laundry Industry and UNITEHERE; Liz Claiborne and UNITEHERE; Miami Air and AFA; Major League Baseball and MLBPA; New York City Transit Authority and ATU; New York City Transit Authority and Transit Supervisors Organization; New York City Transit Authority and TWU; Northwest Airlines and AFA;; Supermarket Industry and UFCW; Suffolk County and Suffolk County PBA, and others.

Carolyn primarily represents public and private employers in defending employment-related matters, including Title VII litigation. She does extensive training in the employment area for employers. Carolyn is a frequent contributor to legal publications on topics involving employment and personnel issues. She earned her B.A. degree from UALR and her J.D. degree, with honors, from the UALR School of Law. She is a former President of the Arkansas Bar Association and former Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section. Carolyn is a long-time member of the American Bar Association, where she served as former Chair of the Commission on Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts and is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section.  She is a former member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, a past Chair of the Arkansas Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, Union Internationale des Avocats, Women in Sports Law, American Employment Law Counsel, and is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Carolyn is an arbitrator of The Court of Arbitration for Sport and a member of the American Arbitration Association Roster of Employment Arbitrators and Mediators. Carolyn was inducted into the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in 2019.

I have worked in the area of dispute resolution since 1992. I have acted as a mediator and/or arbitrator in a broad variety of areas including employment, human rights, sports, property assessment, personal injury and workers compensation. I also provide advice on harassment and conflict of interest and ethics issues for governments and corporate entities. I have conducted harassment investigations for territorial, municipal and federal governments and for universities.

A member of the Canadian Association of Distinguished Neutrals, I am currently a mediator and arbitrator for the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada and the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

I have been a member of the Employment Standards Tribunal in British Columbia since 1992 and am an arbitrator under the Canada Labour Code. I am a member of the Commonwealth Secretariat Adjudication Tribunal, which adjudicates disputes regarding the non-observance of contracts with the Commonwealth Secretariat.

I was an adjudicator with the Indian Residential School Adjudication Secretariat for over 10 years, deciding claims for compensation for sexual and physical abuse at residential schools.

I am a domestic and international panel member with the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre and a panel member with the British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre.

I am a member of the Ethics Committee of the International Floorball Federation and a member of the Judicial Board of World Sailing.

I am a former member of the B.C. Law Society Discipline and Credentials Hearing Panel and a current member of the Inquiry Committee for the British Columbia College of Oral Health Professionals.