ROBERT K. WREDE, J.D., LL.M.
Mediator/Arbitrator/Evaluator - Los Angeles, California
Bob Wrede has been a commercial litigator for 40 years and has mediated, arbitrated or evaluated well over 350 cases as a neutral. He is a full time neutral with ADR Services, Inc., in Los Angeles, and Dispute Prevention & Resolution, Inc., in Honolulu. He is also an adjunct professor of law at Pepperdine law school, Pepperdine's Seaver College and for Pepperdine's prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, from which he holds a Master of Laws degree in Dispute Resolution.
His abilities in the effective use of ADR in avoiding, managing and resolving civil conflict are widely recognized:
2006 LASC Award for "Outstanding Public Service" as a neutral.
2008 McKibbin Award for Teaching Excellence from Pepperdine Law School.
Martindale-Hubell rating "at the highest level of professional excellence."
Read the Daily Journal Article about Robert Wrede from the June 19, 2009 edition.
Professional Experience
For over four decades Mr. Wrede has specialized in the mediation, arbitration and litigation of domestic and international commercial disputes involving complex technical and economic issues as an advocate. A frequent speaker on the effective organization and prosecution of complex commercial cases, he has appeared at seminars sponsored by the Southern California Mediation Association, the California CPA Education Foundation, the Practicing Law Institute, and has lectured on various forms of conflict reolution in California Continuing Education of the Bar programs, at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and at his alma mater, Cornell Law School.
He has been admitted to practice before all courts of the State of California; the United States Supreme Court; the Fifth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuit United States Courts of Appeals; and the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern and Northern Districts of California, the Eastern District of Missouri, the Eastern District of New York, the District of the Northern Marianna Islands, and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, among others.
Mr. Wrede has mediated, arbitrated or evaluated over 350 cases as a neutral for a wide range of public and private dispute resolution services, and in ad hoc proceedings.
Education
Mr. Wrede is a graduate of Cornell University (B.A., English 1961) and Cornell Law School (J.D. 1969). He holds an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute at Pepperdine, where he is currently an adjunct professor.
ADR Training
Mr. Wrede holds a Master of Laws degree, from Pepperdine's prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, with emphasis on the resolution of international commercial disputes. He has had completed extensive post-doctoral studies in the dynamics, theory and application of negotiation and consensual dispute resolution methodologies with such internationally recognized experts as L. Randolph Lowrey, Founder and Director of the Straus Institute; Prof. Leonard Riskin, former Director, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri, Columbia, Law School; Robert O’Donnell, Founder, Woodstock Institute of Negotiation; Prof. Jack Coe, Straus Institute, Vice-Chair, ABA International Arbitration Committee, and author of International Commercial Arbitration: American Principles and Practice in a Global Context (1997); and Prof. Peter Robinson, Associate Director, Straus Institute. He is also a trained NASD and FM&CS arbitrator. ADR Experience
A significant part of Mr. Wrede’s practice over the last four decades has involved the arbitration and mediation, as both an advocate and a neutral, of major commercial disputes before both domestic and international tribunals, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, the Screen Actors Guild, Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS), Dispute Prevention & Resolution, Inc., as well as in numerous ad hoc, and federal and state court-administered proceedings, at both trial and appellate levels.
Mr. Wrede is currently an arbitrator for the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, the National Association of Securities Dealers, and the Kaiser
Mr. Wrede's ADR Style
Because each dispute is unique, with its own special issues, interests, parties and potential solutions, and because mediation and arbitration both require the consent of the parties to the process and, in the case of mediation, its result, the approach used by a neural in each case must be cooperatively crafted by counsel, the parties and the third party neutral or neutrals to optimize the likelihood of a fair, satisfactory resolution.
Of greatest importance in seeking consensus is the ability of the mediator or mediators to actively listen to the needs and desires of the parties and their counsel and to serve those needs by bringing to bear the informed and proper balance of facilitative, evaluative, and persuasive skills to achieve either consensus, in the case of mediations, or a fair decision, in the case of arbitrations.
Personal Values in Arbitration/Mediation
Mr. Wrede employs the ability to actively listen; to induce positive collaboration between the parties; to facilitate open and productive exchanges of ideas and information without revealing confidential issues, facts or positions; to avoid being judgmental; and to induce and justify the trust of the parties and their counsel, as well as their willing cooperation, to effectively discharge his professional responsibilities as a third-party neutral. He brings a wealth of professional experience as a lawyer and neutral, as well as extensive academic training and experience as a professor of law to the table.
Other Qualifications:
Military Service
- Captain, United States Army Artillery: 82nd Airborne Division (1964-66).
- 98th Training Division (Reserve)
- 12th Special Forces (Reserve).
Current Affiliations:
- California Bar Association;
- American Bar Association;
- Beverly Hills Bar Association;
- Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
International Student Center at UCLA:
- Board Member 1973-1995,
- President 1979-1986.
Los Angeles Heart & Lung Foundation:
- Trustee, 1989-Present,
- Grants Committee, 2000-Present.
Jonathan Club: 1970-Present,
- Board of Directors 1985-1988.
Valley Forge Military Academy:
- Board of Visitors, 1998-2000, 2005,
- Board of Trustees, 2005-2007.
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