Current Members
Clemens Barnes
Senior Counsel
Clemens Barnes
Senior Counsel
Clem is Miller Nash Graham & Dunn’s senior Labor & Employment attorney. He advises and represents employers. In addition, he serves as a mediator and arbitrator in employment and other civil litigation matters.
John A. Bender
Bender Law PLLC
John A. Bender
Bender Law PLLC
For more than 30 years, John has focused his practice on resolving challenging securities, franchise, banking and other complex civil cases on behalf of businesses and individuals.
Gregg Bertram
Pacific ADR Consulting, LLC
Gregg Bertram
Pacific ADR Consulting, LLC
Gregg Bertram is the founder of Pacific ADR and is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most experienced and respected mediator/arbitrators.
Carolyn Cairns
Carolyn Cairns Law
Carolyn Cairns
Carolyn Cairns Law
Carolyn’s practice focuses on neutral investigations and alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration and neutral evaluation.
Terrence Carroll
Terrence A. Carroll Disp. Resolution Svcs
Terrence Carroll
Terrence A. Carroll Disp. Resolution Svcs
Judge Carroll brings a wealth of experience to help parties find fair and mutually acceptable resolution of disputes without costly and adversarial litigation.
Stew Cogan
Stew Cogan, Arbitrator & Mediator
Stew Cogan
Stew Cogan, Arbitrator & Mediator
Stew Cogan is in his twenty-second year as a full-time arbitrator and mediator, following twenty years practicing primarily business, corporate, and real estate law.
Stew has arbitrated more than 300 cases and mediated more than 2,500 cases. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in both the Mediation and Arbitration categories. He was named by Best Lawyers as the 2016 Arbitration Lawyer of the Year in Seattle and as the 2017 Mediation Lawyer of the Year in Seattle. Stew has been named a Super Lawyer for the 19 consecutive years from 1999 through 2017, and he was named a Top 100 Super Lawyer in nine of the last ten years. He is also listed in Who’s Who Legal: Mediation (2014, 2015, 2016), and is one of about 100 lawyers in the United States and two in Washington to be so listed.
He is a fellow of both the invitation-only College of Commercial Arbitrators and the invitation-only American College of Civil Trial Mediators (which he currently serves as President), and is a Charter Member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and the ADR Roundtable.
Stew is on the Commercial Panel, the Construction Panel, the Large, Complex Case Panel, the Healthcare Payor-Provider
Phil Cutler
Cutler ADR
Phil Cutler
Cutler ADR
Phil’s practice emphasizes arbitration, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution, as well as litigation and counseling in business, corporate and commercial law.
Bruce Hilyer
Hilyer Dispute Resolution
Bruce Hilyer
Hilyer Dispute Resolution
Judge Bruce W. Hilyer (Ret.) is Principal of his mediation and arbitration firm, Hilyer Dispute Resolution.
Mark Honeywell
Gordon Thomas Honeywell
Mark Honeywell
Gordon Thomas Honeywell
For more than 40 years, Mark Honeywell has been an active litigator with a track record of resolving a wide variety of complex disputes.
Kirk Johns
Johns Dispute Resolution Svcs
Kirk Johns
Johns Dispute Resolution Svcs
In practice since 1973 (exclusively as ADR neutral since 2012). AV® Peer Review Rated (Martindale-Hubbell®).
Representation of small and Fortune 100 businesses, individuals, and governmental entities as plaintiffs and defendants in:
● Commercial litigation and arbitration (emphasis on complex, multidistrict, class
action, and international litigation and arbitration) involving
• Contracts and joint ventures,
• Business torts,
• Intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights),
• Engineering, design, and manufacturing, and
• Antitrust;
● ADR;
● Antitrust counseling;
● White collar criminal defense; and
● Internal investigations.
Over 25 Years of ADR Experience (Domestic and International)
● Arbitration (American Arbitration Association; International Centre for Dispute
Resolution; London Court of International Arbitration; World Intellectual
Property Organization; Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of
Commerce);
● Mediation;
● Innovative procedures, including
• Advocated settlement negotiations (formal presentations to panel of
party representatives and one or more neutrals, followed by direct negotiations between the party representatives, aided by the neutrals);
• Early neutral evaluations, and
• Sequential (phased) ADR procedures.
● Advisor regarding procedures and rules best suited to circumstances of particular
disputes.
● Through fourteen years of in-house experience, a unique understanding of the
benefits of early and innovative ADR tailored to circumstances of a particular dispute.
Provider Affiliations
● American Arbitration Association (Panels: Commercial, International, and
Large & Complex Case);
● International Centre for
Paris Kallas
Judicial Dispute Resolution, LLC
Paris Kallas
Judicial Dispute Resolution, LLC
Judge Paris K. Kallas was appointed to the King County Superior Court in 2001 by Governor Gary Locke and served until 2010.
Margo Keller
Washington Arbitration & Mediation Service
Margo Keller
Washington Arbitration & Mediation Service
Since joining WAMS in 1991, Margo Keller has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of cases: from catastrophic personal injury claims to complex commercial/contract disputes, employment-based grievances and real estate matters.
Tom Keller
Formerly Of Counsel to Lasher Holzapfel
Tom Keller
Formerly Of Counsel to Lasher Holzapfel
Mr. Keller’s mediation and arbitration practice draws on his 40 years of experience as lawyer, during which he has represented thousands of clients in probate, trust, guardianship and closely-held business matters, and in litigation and mediation related to these areas of law. He has also been a CPA in the State of Washington (now retired) for over 43 years, and has been named by various publications as one of the “Best Lawyers” in Seattle and in the State of Washington every year from 2001 to 2017. Mr. Keller is also “AV-Preeminent” rated by Martindale Hubbell.
Colleen Kinerk
Davidson Kilpatric & Krislock PLLC
Colleen Kinerk
Davidson Kilpatric & Krislock PLLC
Admitted to the Washington State Bar Association in 1977, Colleen has a superior reputation for her work with employment and labor issues. Her practice focuses on commercial and tort litigation as well as counseling, training and prevention work.
Andy Kinstler
Helsell Fetterman
Andy Kinstler
Helsell Fetterman
Andrew Kinstler has been a litigator with the law firm of Helsell Fetterman LLP since 1982. He has a civil trial practice with an emphasis on employment law, commercial litigation and personal injury. He also mediates and arbitrates through Pacific ADR Consulting.
Nancy Maisano
Maisano Mediation
Nancy Maisano
Maisano Mediation
Nancy Maisano has mediated more than 1,500 cases. Working as a full-time mediator since 2001, Nancy handles a variety of disputes at all stages from prefiling to the eve of trial.
Dick Manning
Manning Law Offices
Dick Manning
Manning Law Offices
Dick Manning's legal career has spanned over four decades. Dick now limits his services to those as a mediator & arbitrator in construction, business, probate & real estate mattters.
Andy Maron
Ogden Murphy Wallace
Andy Maron
Ogden Murphy Wallace
Andy's practice focuses primarily on construction and local government law. He has extensive experience in all types of civil litigation and levels of complexity.
Karl Oles
Stoel Rives
Karl Oles
Stoel Rives
Karl Oles is a partner of Stoel Rives LLP, in the Construction and Design group. For more than 30 years, he has helped owners, architects, engineers, and contractors solve complex legal problems through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and, when necessary, trial. He has represented parties in mediation, arbitration, and before dispute review boards and he has taught seminars on ADR. Karl has served as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association’s construction panel since 2007.
Lou Peterson
Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S.
Lou Peterson
Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S.
Lou Peterson is a trial lawyer, mediator and arbitrator. He represents individuals and businesses in commercial cases of all types – from securities and intellectual property claims to shareholder and employment disputes.
Sasha S. Philip
Philip Mediation
Sasha S. Philip
Philip Mediation
Sasha is a professional mediator and arbitrator, and the owner of Philip Mediation, which she founded in early 2014. In addition to her private practice, Sasha serves as a member of the WSBA ADR Section executive committee and co-chairs the Annual Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference.
Warren Rheaume
Davis Wright Tremaine
Warren Rheaume
Davis Wright Tremaine
Warren Rheaume represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property and technology disputes. In more than 30 years of practice, he has litigated and tried a wide variety of matters, including patent, copyright, trademark, noncompetition, and trade secret cases.
Jim Smith
Smith & Hennessey
Jim Smith
Smith & Hennessey
Mr. Smith is a trial lawyer. He also spends a substantial portion of his practice as a neutral, mediating and arbitrating cases.
Chris Soelling
Christopher J. Soelling PLLC
Chris Soelling
Christopher J. Soelling PLLC
Christopher Soelling is a full-time mediator and arbitrator. He practiced 20 years as a construction, commercial, and real estate trial lawyer with Short, Cressman, & Burgess, PLLC where he represented suppliers, subcontractors, general contractors, developers, private owners, and public entities in contract drafting, claim preparation, claim negotiation, mediation, arbitration, trial, and appeal.
Steven G. Toole
Steven G. Toole Mediation Service
Steven G. Toole
Steven G. Toole Mediation Service
For over thirty years, Steve Toole limited his practice to the personal injury field. During that time he also served as president of both the WSBA and WSAJ (formerly WSTLA). Steve began mediating cases 18 years ago and for the past five years, has been a full-time neutral, mediating and arbitrating approximately 12-15 cases per month.