William H. Schroder William H. Schroder, LLC 1201 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30361 Tel: (404) 577-0900 Fax: Unpublished Email: schroder@arblaw.com

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ADR Services: Mediation (Civil/Commercial) Arbitration (Civil/Commercial) Early Neutral Evaluation Med-Arb Facilitation Fact Finding Discovery Referee Mini Trial Judge Special Master

Serving the following Judicial Districts & Circuits: 1st - Atlantic, Brunswick, Eastern 2nd - Dougherty, Tifton 4th - Rockdale, Stone Mountain 5th - Atlanta 6th - Clayton, Coweta, Griffin 7th - Cherokee, Cobb, Conasauga, Douglas, Lookout Mountain, Paulding, Rome, Tallapoosa 8th - Dublin 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 ]

Anti-Trust Banking & Finance Commercial/Business Construction Contract Disputes Employment Engineering

Franchise Health Care Insurance Intellectual Property International Landlord/Tenant Partnerships

Professional Fees Real Estate Securities Sports Technology Trusts / Estates

Biographical Notes:

• Martindale-Hubbell rated (AV, 1975-2010); 31 years on the following national panels: American Arbitration Association (1979-current) on its national mediator panel and its following national arbitrator panels: Commercial (on issues of antitrust, communications, computer hardware and software engineering and systems development, construction, contracts, custom internet business architectures, employment, franchises, insurance, professional malpractice, mergers & acquisitions, patent, copyright & trademark, real estate commercial transactions and development, securities and financing, sports, technology, & trade secrets), eCommerce, International (commercial issues), and the U.S. Olympic Committee Panels for the 1996 Summer Olympics (U.S.), the 1998 Winter Olympics (Japan), and the 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver); Administrative Conference of the U.S (1991-96); Environmental Protection Agency (1991-96); FDIC (1991-96); CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution (1993- ).
• Selected ADR disputes handled as a Neutral include, by way of example: Antitrust (Sherman, Clayton and Robinson-Patman Acts involving an automobile manufacturer and a dealer and a school bus manufacturer and a dealer); Bankruptcy Court-ordered disputes; computer software marketing agreements; computer and other trade secrets; corporate retirement plans; custom internet business architectures; eCommerce internet store B2B contracts; construction, employment discrimination (gender; national origin); Far East product liability cases; petroleum marketing franchises; exclusive territory franchises and other distribution disputes; law firm partnership dissolutions and legal fee allocations; medical, dental, accountant and architect professional malpractice; merger and acquisition disputes; municipal construction; oil terminal contracts; real estate transactions and shopping center development; software engineering and systems development; Olympics sports doping and IOC medal forfeiture; national telecommunications rates; textile industry merger disputes; and trusts and estates. Several of the foregoing selected disputes were multi-party disputes involving from 3 to 15 parties.

Education:

• University of Notre Dame, BA, Economics, 1963
• University of Virginia, J.D., 1966.
• ADR Training:
• ICLE, Mediation Advocacy, 2010
• Troutman Sanders LLP, Arbitration Clauses in International Contracts, 2008
• AAA, Arbitration of Licensing & IP Disputes, 2005
• ICLE, Best Practices & Recent Development in Arbitration, 2005
• AAA, Drafting Better ADR Clauses, 2003
• AAA, Commercial Arbitrator II Training, 2002
• ABA, Basics of Arbitration in International Transactions, 2001
• AAA, Arbitrator Update, 2001
• King & Spalding LLP, International Arbitration, 2000
• AAA, Commercial Arbitrator Training, 2000

Languages

English

Memberships & Affiliations :

• Bar Admissions & Dates: Georgia, 1965; U.S. Supreme Court, 1973; Florida, 1994; GA Office of Dispute Resolution (General Mediation, Early Neutral Evaluation, Arbitration), 1995.
• Atlanta Bar Association (President, 1978-79)
• Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers (President, 1974-75)
• Atlanta Dispute Resolution Lawyers (President, 1994-96)
• Atlanta Bar Foundation (President, 1995-98)
• Charles Watkins Award, Recipient (1997)
• Fulton County Board of Ethics (1985-98)
• Georgia Arbitrators Forum (President, 2004-05)
• State Bar of Georgia (1965-present)
• Florida Bar Association (1994-present)

Rates: Customary $500.00 hourly rate, negotiable in specific cases, for Arbitrator, Mediator & ADR Neutral Compensation. Rate includes hearing time and study and other non-hearing case activity time. Expenses reimbursed.

Payment: Advance deposits.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellation fees negotiated in specific cases.

AVAILABILITY & BOOKING INFORMATION

Calendar Last Updated: 30 Aug 10	Click your preferred date to send our office a Date Request form. All such requests will go immediately to William Schroder's scheduling staff (schroder@arblaw.com)