Professional Resume
Bruce S. Feldacker
Attorney at Law
230 South Bemiston Ave., Suite 1200
St. Louis, Missouri 63105
314-862-3333, Ext. 15
Professional Background:
Partner, Feldacker & Durbin, P.C., in private practice since 1969, specializing in labor and employment law, including the construction industry, and general civil litigation. Admitted to the Bar in Missouri and Illinois. Mediator, primarily of labor and employment law, regulatory,consumer, and general contract and business disputes since 1996 – in federal and state court matters, private disputes, and cases pending before the EEOC.
Professional Activities and Responsibilities:
Current President, Association of Missouri Mediators; Past Chair, Labor & Employment Law Section, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis; Co- Chair, ABA, Labor & Employment Law Section, Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment Law; Member: Missouri and Illinois Bar Associations (active member of the MoBar. ADR & Employment Law Committees), Association of Attorney-Mediators, Association for Conflict Resolution, Missouri Association of Mediators; frequent speaker and writer on mediation and employment law issues.
Mediation Experience:
Designated as an Advanced Practioner in Workplace Mediation by the Association for Conflict Resolution. Have served as neutral mediator in more than 400 cases, primarily employment, construction, regulatory, consumer and general contract and business disputes, under the auspices of the United States District Court Eastern District of Missouri mediation program, the EEOC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Pinnacle Mediation. Employment cases include both private and public sector disputes, and have involved such matters as wrongful termination issues, non-competition agreements, Title VII, ADEA, ADA, FMLA, FLSA, or ERISA issues etc. Selected by the EEOC as one of two outside mediators to mediate cases pending before the EEOC St. Louis District Office. Designated as mediator in the United States Postal Service Redress Mediation Program.
ADR Certifications:
Certified Mediator, United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, October 1994; Qualified as a Mediator pursuant to Missouri Supreme Court Rule 17, December 1995; Member, Mediator Rosters of the Alliance for Education in Dispute Resolution; Nuclear Regulatory Commission and FINRA (formerly NASD) Mediation Rosters; Construction Industry Resolution Services,Inc; Pinnacle Medition, National Arbitration Forum; member, medoators' panel, United States Postal Service Redress mediation program
ADR Training:
Formal mediation training includes:
1. United States Nuclear Regulatory Mediation Orientation, April 20, 2007 (6 hours); training by NRC staff.
2. United States Postal Service, Redress MediationTraining (Transformational Mediation),September 9-12,2007(20hours).Trainers:DonnaTurner-Hudson and SherryWalker-Cowart.
3. "Arbitration Training Course," (construction disputes), sponsored by the Construction Disputes Resolution Instutute, March 2006, 16 hours, Instructors: Arbitrators Rita Siegel & John Feldman;
4. "Mediation of Construction Disputes," sponsored by the
Association of Missouri Mediators, September 2005, 6 hours,
Instructors: Panel of attorneys experienced in Construction and ADR
practices;
5. “Advanced Employment Law Mediator Training Program,”
sponsored by Cornell University and the Alliance for Education in
Dispute Resolution, February 17-19, 2003, 21 hours; primary
instructors Mediators Sara Adler and John Sands. (Member, Alliance
Employment Mediation Roster);
6 “Advanced Mediator Training,” sponsored by the Association of
Attorney-Mediators, September 19, 2003, St. Louis, Missouri, 7.9
hours; conducted by a panel of experienced mediators;
7 “Advanced Mediation Training,” sponsored by the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, April 11, 2001,
presented by the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution,
University of Missouri School of Law, 8.4 hours;
8 “Advanced Mediator Training,” sponsored by United States
Arbitration and Mediation, November 14-15, 1997, 12 hours, taught
by several experienced Mediators/Attorneys;
9 “EEO Mediation and Mediation Advocacy Skills Building
Conference,” sponsored by The Bar Association of Metropolitan St.
Louis and the St. Louis District Office, EEOC, July 1997, 7 hours
(multiple Attorneys/Mediators as instructors);
10 “Bridge Course, Mediator Training Program,” under the auspices
of the American Academy of Attorney/Mediators Inc., April 7-8,
1995, taught by Attorney/Mediator Ross W. Stoddard, 12 hours;
11. “Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation Training,” sponsored by
the United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri,
September 1994, 16 hours, taught by J. Michael Keating, Jr.,
Attorney at Law, and Professor Leonard L. Riskin, University of
Missouri School of Law;
12. American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section,
Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (Annual mid-year
meeting that I attend includes sessions on mediation procedures and
techniques);
13. Annual attendance at St. Louis and Missouri Bar Association
ADR and Employment Law conferences which include sessions on
mediation practice in general and on the mediation of EEO and
employment law disputes.
Teaching and Educational Activities:
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, St. Louis University Law School (currently teaching course in employment law); Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri Law School (taught course in collective bargaining and labor arbitration); Part-time instructor, Indiana University Division of Labor Studies and Cornell University School of Industrial Relations (teaching internet courses in labor law and the use of ADR to resolve employment disputes); University of Missouri Labor Extension Service, St. Louis Community College, and Maryville College Labor Studies programs;
Speaker on labor law and labor relations topics, including use of ADR to resolve employment disputes, in seminars and institutions sponsored by the American, Missouri and St. Louis bar associations; the American Arbitration Association; the Industrial Relations Research Association; various colleges; and by other continuing education organizations.
Books and Publications:
Author: Labor Guide to Labor Law, 4th Ed. (Prentice Hall Publishing Company, 2000), a widely used reference book and text in Labor Studies courses (including Chapter on employment discrimination);
Articles: “Mediation: The Better Way to Resolve Your Business Disputes,” published in the Missouri Bar Corporate Law Update, May 2004 (see mobar.org/lawday/feldacker); “Training in a Blizzard?A Report on the “Advanced Employment Law Mediator Training Program” sponsored by the Alliance for Education in Dispute Resolution, published in the Spring 2003 issue of the newsletter of the Association of Missouri Mediators (“The Communicator”); Conference Paper, “Suggestions for a Successful Mediation: A Mediator’s Perspective,” Missouri Bar Labor and Employment Law Symposium, Fall 2003 (available from the MoBar and the Author).
Education:
LL.M. (Labor Law), Georgetown University Law Center, 1969; J.D., University of Chicago, Law School, 1965; A.B., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1962.
Personal Data:
Residence: 7807 Davis Drive
Clayton, Missouri 63105
(314) 863-3503
Captain, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Military Affairs Personnel Law Division, Washington, D.C. 1966-1969.
