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PROFILE INFORMATION
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Neutral Training |
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Mediation Training,
Stanford Law School, 1994 (20 Hours) |
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Masters' Mediation
Forum, Pepperdine, 2000 (12 Hours) |
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Mr. Smith has been
an Adjunct Professor of Law teaching international
arbitration and mediation. |
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In addition to the
instruction he has given to attorneys, business people and
students, he has completed more than 300 hours of ADR
training, including the American Arbitration Association’s
basic and advanced arbitrator training and mediation
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Fellowship course of
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London) |
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National Institute
for Trial Advocacy (NITA) mediation and ADR training |
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CDR Associates
practicum for experienced mediators (Boulder, CO) |
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Faculty, Employment Law Institute for Corporate
Counsel, Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1995 |
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Experience as Neutral |
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10 Years
Cases: 100+
Case Type: Principally commercial--contract, employment,
insurance, international, high-tech, health, etc. |
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Neutral Practice Area(s) |
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Appellate
Insurance
Bankruptcy
International
Business/Litigation
Labor/Employment
Civil Litigation
Commercial
Personal Injury
Corporation/Enterprise
Property/Real Estate
Securities
Environmental
Estate Planning
Trademarks/Copyrights
High-tech
Health
Transnational
Financial Institutions |
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Co-Mediation Experience |
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1Year |
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Representative Cases |
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Please see web site-- http://www.robertmsmith.com |
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Philosophy |
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Facilitative
Evaluative
Predictor of Jury Verdict
Mr. Smith's style depends on the wishes of the disputants. |
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Special Requirements/
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Mr. Smith has had more than 20 years of commercial litigation and trial experience consisting of practice at: Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe; Senior Litigation Counsel, Bank of America, responsible for overseas litigation worldwide; principal of his own commercial litigation firm, which included among its clients 36 financial institutions; Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States during the Carter Administration; Assistant US Attorney, ND CA. He is the author of ADR for Financial Institutions (West Group, 2d ed. 1998,1200 pp.), and is now a full-time neutral.
Mr. Smith’s commercial law experience has ranged from high-tech lending through sexual harassment and discrimination matters, from lender liability to computer lease disputes, from international letters of credit to construction disputes, from insurance coverage issues to personal injury matters, from inter-bank disputes to project finance.
He has handled litigation in such other fields as real estate, employment, construction, agricultural finance, and corporate insolvency. He is admitted to the Bars of California, New York and the District of Columbia, and is a Solicitor in England. He is an Associate Tenant of Littleton Chambers (Barristers), Temple, London.
Mr. Smith was a pioneer in bringing arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution techniques to the field of financial institutions law. He is a Chartered Arbitrator in the United Kingdom, and was President of The Mediation Society. He is a mediator and arbitrator with the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland; a member of the London Court of International Arbitration, and a member of the Arbitration Subcommittee of the U.S. Council for International Business (ICC) and the ICC Forum on ADR. He is a member of the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals.
He has been elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators.
He is on the panels of international arbitration centers from Vancouver to Singapore, Cairo to Kuala Lumpur. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and an Accredited Mediator of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He was on both AAA arbitration and mediation panels for many years; he was also a member of the Northern California Advisory Council to the AAA.
Mr. Smith has also run his own enterprise, as well as managing a Government office and working closely with the CEO’s and board members of banks and other financial institutions, including foreign entities. He has also been on the boards of many not-for-profit organizations, including the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation.
He has considerable courtroom experience as an Assistant United States Attorney and as the principal of his own firm.
He is listed in Who’s Who in American Law and the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. |
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Judicial Arbitration to
Mediation |
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