►       More than 1800 cases in 33 states and District of Columbia involving both domestic and international disputes involving up to $22 million in controversy and the following subject matter areas:

·          commercial transactions

·          construction

·          employment

·          securities

·          franchise/distributorship

·          product liability

·          personal injury and wrongful death    

·          professional malpractice

·          mergers, acquisitions and divestitures

·          closely-held businesses, partnerships, joint ventures

·          commercial landlord-tenant

·          commercial/consumer lending/class actions

·          probate/estate

LITIGATION EXPERIENCE

►        Represented both plaintiffs and defendants, business entities and individuals, in a general civil litigation practice before both state and federal courts and administrative agencies.  Subject matters areas of motion practice, discovery and trial work included:

·          contracts, UCC    

·          labor and employment

·         personal injury and wrongful death (negligence, product liability, medical malpractice)

·          admiralty

·          real estate

·          family law

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

►       Duties and responsibilities of executive and in-house legal positions with three Fortune 500 corporations and my own law and dispute resolution consulting practices included:

·          Preparation of business plans, offering circulars

·          Financial management 

·         Human resources (recruiting, staffing, salary/benefits, affirmative action, employee/labor relations)

·          Organization design, planning

·          Marketing, promotion

·          P/L accountability

·          Shareholder, public and community relations

 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

►        Fellow  and Member of Board of Governors, International Academy

            of Mediators

►        Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution

►        Member, Mediation Panel, National Association of Securities 

            Dealers

►        Member, Distinguished Panel of Neutrals (Employment Disputes), CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution

►        Member, ADR Review Board, State of Minnesota

►        Frequent trainer and continuing education lecturer on ADR (more than 20 programs 1995-1999)

►        American Bar Association (Sections on Dispute Resolution, Labor and Employment, Tort and Insurance Practice Sections; Forum on Construction)

►        Minnesota State Bar Association (Alternative Dispute Resolution,  Labor and Employment Law and Construction Sections)

►        California Bar Association (inactive status)

►        Missouri Bar Association

 PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE

►         Admitted to the practice of law in the following states:

·          Missouri (1966)

·          Illinois (1968)

·          Minnesota (1979)

·          California (1986)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

►        Founding shareholder, Burk & Landrum, P.A. and its conflict management consulting division, AMERICORD^®, Edina, Minnesota (2001-present)

►       Director, Center for Conflict Management/AMERICORD^® and Adjunct Professor, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota (1998 - 2001; adjunct professor of ADR since1986)

►        President, AMERICORD^®, Inc., Dispute Resolution Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Sausalito, California (1984-1998)

►       Vice President, Administration, GEMCO department store division, Lucky Stores, Inc., Buena Park, California (1983-84)

►       Director, Employee Relations, Target Stores Division, Dayton-Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1979-1983)

►        Managing Partner, Berman & Landrum, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois

            (1976-79)

►        Associate Attorney, Arnold & Kadjan, Chicago, Illinois (1975-76)

►       Divisional Vice President, Industrial Relations, Jewel Companies, Inc., Chicago, Illinois (1968-1975)

►       Labor Counsel, The Associated General Contractors of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois (1966-1968)

 EDUCATION

►        Juris Doctor, University of Missouri – Columbia (1966)

►        Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, Northeast Missouri State

            University (1963) 

 MEDIATION TRAINING

►        “Advanced Mediator Training”, Mediation Arbitration Professional Systems, Inc. (MAPS), Metairie, Louisiana (October 2000)

►        International Academy of Mediators semi-annual educational conferences and workshops (since 1998)

►        American Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution, “The Golden Gate to Collaborative Problem Solving”, San Francisco, California (April, 2000)

►        “Mediating Year 2000 Disputes”, ABA Science & Technology Section (April, 1999)

►       “Advanced Mediation”, Center for Development of Mediation in Law (40 hours; Mill Valley, California, 1985)

►       “The Dynamics of Conflict”, San Francisco Community Boards (30 hours; San Francisco, California, 1985)

►        Introduction to Mediation, Center for the Development of Mediation, Mill Valley, California, 1984 (40 hours)

►        Collaborative Negotiation and Mediation, National Center for Collaborative Planning and Community Service, Montpelier, Vermont (Spokane, Washington program) 1984 (40 hours)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

►       The Importance of Mediation Process Design – A Case Study in Real time, International Academy of Mediator s Fall Educational Conference, Hilton Head, SC, November, (2001)

►        Through the Mists: ADR and Product Liability Claims in the 21^st Century, 27 William Mitchell Law Review, Vol.1, 110 (2000) (Reprinted in Defense Law Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3, 627 (2001)

►        Beyond ADR: Opportunities for Business Lawyers, Bench & Bar of Minnesota (October, 2000)

►        The Seven Deadly Sins of Mediators, 2000-2001 Midwest Alternative Dispute Resolution Guide (Supplement to Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer)

►       Collaborationism, the Rule of Law and Legal Education in the 21st century, (William Mitchell magazine, Fall, 1999, 27)

►       Judicial Morphallaxis: Mandatory Arbitration and Statutory Rights (with Dean A. Trongard), 24 William Mitchell Law Review Vol. 2, 345 (1998)

►       Mediating Construction Disputes, Minnesota State Bar Association CLE ADR Desk Book (November, 1998)

►       The Coming Civil War in ADR, Minnesota’s Journal of Law & Politics (February, 1997)

►       Motion Practice and ADR, a chapter in the course manual for Minnesota Institute of Legal Education’s Program, “Motion Practice: The Nuts and Bolts” (January, 1998)

►       Pre-Trial and Post-Discovery ADR, a chapter in the course manual for Minnesota State Bar Association CLE program, “Effectively Preparing Your Case in Minnesota” (October, 1996)