John A. Sherrill Seyfarth Shaw LLP One Peachtree Pointe 1545 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 700 Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: (404) 885-6703 Fax: (404) 892-7056 Email: jsherrill@seyfarth.com www.seyfarth.com

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ADR Services: Mediation (Civil/Commercial) Arbitration (Civil/Commercial)

Serving the following Judicial Districts & Circuits: 1st - Atlantic, Brunswick, Eastern, Ogeechee, Waycross 2nd - Alapaha, Dougherty, Pataula, Southern, Southern Georgia, Tifton 3rd - Chattahoochee, Houston, Macon, SouthWestern 4th - Rockdale, Stone Mountain 5th - Atlanta 6th - Clayton, Coweta, Flint, Griffin, Towaliga 7th - Cherokee, Cobb, Conasauga, Douglas, Lookout Mountain, Paulding, Rome, Tallapoosa 8th - Cordele, Dublin, Middle, Ocmulgee, Oconee 9th - Appalachian, Bell-Forsyth, Blue Ridge, Enotah, Gwinnett, Mountain, North-Eastern 10th - Alcovy, Augusta, Northern, Piedmont, Toombs, Western [ Click for Map of Georgia's Districts & Circuits ]

Commercial/Business Condominiums Construction

Contract Disputes Insurance Land Use/Planning

Personal Injury Product Liability Real Estate

Biographical Notes:

Mr. Sherrill is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw's Litigation Department and chairs the firm's Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Group. He has 33 years of experience representing clients in resolving all types of civil disputes, including real estate, zoning and land-use, construction related cases, personal injury and product liability cases, and general commercial, contract and corporate disputes through negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation at the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts. His practice currently focuses on ADR, commercial litigation, zoning and land use.

Mr. Sherrill has extensive experience as a neutral representing clients in all types of ADR forums, serving as a mediator in over 500 mediations and an arbitrator in over 200 arbitrations over the last 20 years. He has been a member of the American Arbitration Association's (AAA) Panel of Arbitrators since 1986 and is a member of AAA's Large Complex Case Program, as well as the Roster of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. He is also a member of the panel of mediators for AAA, CPR and Closure, Inc. Mr. Sherrill served as a member of the AAA/U.S. Olympic Committee Arbitration Panels for the 1996 (Atlanta), 1998 (Nagano), 2000 (Sydney) and 2004 (Athens) Olympic games. He also has experience as an administrative law judge, serving as Chief Hearing Officer for the Georgia Real Estate Commission and as Chairman of the State Health Planning Review Board, and as a special master appointed by a number of state and federal courts.

Education:

• J.D., Duke University Law School, (1972) - Member of Editorial Board of Duke Law Journal (1971-72)
• A.B., University of North Carolina, (1963) - Morehead Scholar

ADR Training:

• AAA Phase II Arbitrator Training, Atlanta - 2002-07
• AAA Mediation Advocacy Training, Atlanta - 2001
• AAA Mediator Conference Workshop, Chicago - 2000
• AAA/USATF Doping Grievance Arbitrator Training, Atlanta - 2000
• AAA Neutrals Retreat and Workshop, Orlando FL - 1999
• AAA Construction Industry Arbitrator Training Workshop, Atlanta - 1998
• AAA Large Complex Case Program Advanced Arbitrator Training, Maine - 1997
• AAA Arbitrator Training Workshop, Atlanta - 1996
• AAA Mediation Training, Atlanta - 1994
• AAA Large Complex Case Basic Procedures Training, Atlanta - 1993
• AAA Basic Arbitrator Training, Atlanta - 1993

Languages

English

Memberships & Affiliations :

• American Bar Association (Litigation and Dispute Resolution Sections)
• Georgia Bar Association (Litigation and ADR Sections)
• Atlanta Bar Association (Litigation and ADR Sections)
• Lawyers Club of Atlanta
• American College of Civil Trial Mediators (Fellow)
• American College of Commercial Arbitrators, (Fellow)
• Georgia Arbitrators Forum (Founding Member)
• Atlanta Consortium of Arbitrators and Mediators (Founding Member)
• American Arbitration Association (Arbitrator and Mediator)
• CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution (Arbitrator and Mediator)

Rates: $500 per hour

AVAILABILITY & BOOKING INFORMATION

Calendar Last Updated: 20 Aug 10	Click your preferred date to send our office a Date Request form. All such requests will go immediately to John Sherrill's scheduling staff (Robin Banks, RBanks@seyfarth.com)