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RESUME
Profession:
Attorney; trial lawyer 1975-2000; practice limited since 2000 to providing arbitration, mediation, special master and other ADR services.
ADR Experience:
Over twenty years of experience (1985-present) serving as an arbitrator and mediator in commercial cases. Served as a sole or panelist arbitrator in hundreds of cases involving a wide variety of parties and issues. Also served as a neutral mediator in a substantially larger number of business disputes. Frequent service as chair of three-arbitrator panels. Experience serving as an arbitrator in cases administered under the rules of the AAA, ICDR, JAMS, ICC, NASD, Society of Maritime Arbitrators and in numerous non-administered cases.
Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators. Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Listed in Washington Super Lawyers, 2000-2008, and Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America.
Cases handled as a neutral have included many large disputes but have also included a wide variety of other matters, of varying size, involving corporations, privately-held companies, LLC's, partnerships, units of government, and individuals. Types of cases handled have included:
- commercial contract
- intellectual property
- international contract and licensing disputes
- breach of contract/breach of warranty
- unfair competition
- energy
- construction
- government contracting
- business purchase and sale
- copyright
- trademark and patent
- international sales and joint ventures
- health care and health insurance
- biotech
- software and other technology disputes
- partnership, LLC and shareholder disputes
- disputes involving professionals
- commercial leasing and real estate
- ERISA
- employment termination and discrimination
- insurance coverage
- franchise
- valuation
- distribution
- employee non-competition and confidentiality covenants
- class action arbitrations
International arbitrations and mediations have included Australian, Belgian, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Indian, Israeli, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, New Zealand, Peruvian, Saudi Arabian, Swedish, Swiss, Taiwanese and U.S. parties.
Some examples of recent or pending arbitration and mediation engagements are attached. Follow the links to "Arbitration Experience" and "Mediation Experience.
Some examples of recent or pending arbitration and mediation engagements are posted at www.tjbrewer.com. Follow the links to "Arbitration Experience" and "Mediation Experience
ADR Affiliations:
Member of the American Arbitration Association's Commercial, International, Large Complex Case, Class Action, Energy, Construction and Mediation Panels. Member of the International and Seattle panels of neutrals of the CPR Institute of Dispute Resolution. Member of the American Health Lawyers Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Service Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators. Member, ADR Roundtable, Seattle. Approved Mediator/Arbitrator, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington.
Special Master Experience:
Served as court-appointed special master responsible for resolving all discovery issues regarding electronically stored information in UCC Ueshima Coffee Company, Ltd. v. Tully's Coffee Corporation, No. C06-1604 RSL (W.D.Wash.), an international licensing, trademark and market development dispute between Japanese and U.S. parties. Also served as a court-appointed special master for discovery matters in Whatley v. Nike, Inc., No. CV98-063-MO, U.S.D.C., Or., a patent case, and as a "verification expert" engaged by class counsel and a class action defendant to verify and report to the respective state and federal courts concerning the defendant's performance of certain class action settlement obligations in West, et al. v. Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, et al., No. C01-716P (W.D. Wash.) and Stone v. Group Health Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, et al., King County Sup. Ct. No. 01-2-14261-5 SEA. Served as a court-appointed special master for discovery matters in Amazon.com Commerce Services, Inc. v. Expedia, Inc. (King County Sup. Ct. No. 02-2-25747-0SEA), a breach of contract and antitrust action, and, pursuant to a settlement agreement, as the court-appointed arbitrator to determine the amount of class action damages in James E. Hoffman and Dale Snow v. REGENCE BLUESHIELD, No. C98-1078P (W.D. Wash.) and Steven R. Holman v. REGENCE BLUESHIELD, No. 00-2-02033-3SEA (King County Superior Court).
Education:
Dartmouth College (B.A., Government, magna cum laude, 1968); Oxford University (B.A., Jurisprudence, First Class Honours, Rhodes Scholar, 1973); Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, law review, 1975).
Employment History:
2000-present: Self-employed attorney; practice limited to providing arbitration, mediation, special master and other ADR services. 1985-2000: Substantial, but not full-time, experience serving as arbitrator and mediator. 1975-2000: Trial lawyer representing and counseling clients in business and commercial cases. Partner, Wickwire, Greene, Crosby, Brewer & Seward (Seattle), 1994-00; Partner (1981-94)/Associate (1975-81), Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe (and predecessor firm acquired by merger), 1975-94.
Professional Associations:
Member, International Bar Association, American Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association, Federal Bar Association of the Western District of Washington, and King County Bar Association (ADR Section).
Publications and Speaking Engagements:
Speaker, "New Perspectives on Mediation," Washington State Bar Association Seminar, Seattle, 3/08; Speaker, "Representing Clients Effectively in Arbitration," Northwest Securities Institute, Seattle, 2/08; speaker, "Mediation of Intellectual Property Disputes," ICDR International Arbitration and Mediation Symposium, Toronto, 9/07; contributing author, THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCIAL ARBITRATORS GUIDE TO BEST PRACTICES IN COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION, JurisNet 2006; speaker, "Arbitration of Intellectual Property Disputes," ICC International Dispute Resolution Seminar, La Jolla, 10/05; co-author, "Vacating Arbitration Awards," DISPUTE RESOLUTION, Summer 2005; co-author, "A Courtroom Lawyer's Guide to Arbitration," LITIGATION, vol. 31 no. 3, Spring 2005; speaker, Issues Relating to International Enforceability of Arbitral Awards, Washington State Bar Association seminar, Seattle, 5/03; speaker, Managing Discovery and Evidence in Arbitration - Domestic and International Perspectives, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, Fourth Annual Conference, Seattle, 4/02; "The Arbitrability of Antitrust Disputes: Freedom to Contract for an Alternative Forum," 66 ANTITRUST L.J. 91 (1997)(partial listing).