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"Violence is destructive to the soul."
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ROBERT A. CREO
Arbitrator * Mediator * Educator * Settlement Counsel
Mr. Creo has significant experience as both an advocate and a neutral in tort, employment, insurance, commercial, construction, real estate and other practice areas. He has been retained to serve as settlement counsel by law firms to negotiate complex and large claims on their behalf.
Mr. Creo has served over 4,000 days as a neutral since 1979 in thousands of cases, including hundreds of claims of serious injury, death, complex business transactions and commercial cases involving multi-million dollar settlements. He has served as a court-appointed Special Master involving class action resolutions. He served as an arbitrator for Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association and for the National Football League and National Football Players Association. He served as neutral for the United States Senate, Select Committee on Ethics, Office of Fair Employment Practices from 1992 to 1997.
Mr. Creo has been a neutral for numerous dispute resolution organizations such as American Arbitration Association; CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution; Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; JAMS; National Association of Securities Dealers; Pa. Bureau of Mediation and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pa. He is a member of numerous organizations and has held leadership positions in many of them, including as the first President of the International Academy of Mediators. Mr. Creo is recognized internationally in the fields of mediation and negotiation. He is an Adjunct Professor at both Duquesne University School of Law and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He conducts educational programs for professional organizations. He has published extensively on dispute resolution.
Mr. Creo earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1974 from Brandeis University andhis J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 1977,where he was SeniorEditor of the Washington University Law Quarterly.
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Robert Creo Interview May 2004 File details:
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Article ~ ADR BRIEF ~ Mentorship and Diversity
As of August 31, 2007, Cassandra J. Georges, Esq. ended her one-year ADR mentorship with our offices. Ms. Georges was the first recipient of the inaugural Dispute Resolution Fellowship that was created and implemented by Robert A. Creo’s ADR entity, Impartial Dispute Resolution Services. An article published in CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution ALTERNATIVES discusses this mentorship with Mr. Creo and Ms. Georges.
Please click on the following link to download this article.
CREOMentorship_GEORGES_CPR ALTERNATIVES_ADR Brief
CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution ALTERNATIVES, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 2008) ADR Briefs "Who Else Will Step Up? A Mentor Plan Seeks to Spread ADR Diversity."
Creo’s ADR Book --- Book Review by Judith Meyer
Judith Meyer is a full-time mediator and arbitrator. She is an adjunct professor of ADR at Cornell Law School. She serves as a judge pro tem for the Philadelphia Commerce Court.
Judith Meyer’s Book Review is published in The Pennsylvania Lawyer, Nov-Dec 2007 (Pages 48-49).
Book Review, available to download:Book Review by Judith Meyer
Creo Teaches Mediation Techniques to International Litigators
Deidre S. Powell, a lawyer from Jamaica and LLM Candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London. To find out more about Diedre's internship with Mr. Creo, please visit the Internship page of this website. Also, read the following article by Lisa M. Wolfe written for the ACBA Lawyers Journal, Vol. 8, No. 14 (July 7, 2006).
Article by Lisa M. Wolfe, available to download: ACF5122.pdf
The Master Mediator
Robert A. Creo is writing a regular web column, The Master Mediator, on The CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution website. Mr. Creo discusses effective mediation room techniques for neutrals. The column is now available to the general public by visiting www.cpradr.org.
CPR Institute's Panel of Construction Neutrals
In September of 2005 Mr. Creo was recommended as a candidate for CPR Institute's Panel of Construction Neutrals.
Pittsburgh Magazine
Mr. Creo was named one of the Best Lawyers in America for Alternative Dispute Resolution in Western Pennsylvania in the February 2006 issue of Pittsburgh Magazine, available at www.wqed.org.
Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America
Robert A. Creo has been named one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America, www.lawdragon.com.
2006 and 2009 The Best Lawyers in America
Mr. Creo was selected by his peers to be included in the 2006 edition of "The Best Lawyers in America," and again was recently selected to be included in the 2009 edition of "The Best Lawyers in America." in the specialty of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
"Selection to Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey comprising of more than 2.5 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the Country."
2005-2008 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer
Mr. Creo was named one of Philadelphia Magazine's Pennsylvania SuperLawyers for Alternative Dispute Resolution for 2005 thru 2008. (Philadelphia Magazine, May, 2006 and June 2008)
2008 "THE TOP 50 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer
In addition to being named one of Philadelphia's Magazine's Pennsylvania SuperLawyers, Mr. Creo is recognized as one of"The Top 50" Lawyers within the Pittsburgh Area. This list was determined by who received the highest point totals in the 2008 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers nomination. (Philadelphia Magazine, June 2008)
