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PHILIP L. BRUNER
Arbitrator, Mediator and Resolver
of construction,engineering and infrastructure disputes
arising in the United States and throughout the world.
Co-author of Bruner & O'Connor on Construction Law, the 8 volume, 8,000 page legal treatise regarded as the most authoritative ever written on American law governing construction.
Founding Fellow and past President of The American College of Construction Lawyers
Honorary Fellow of The Canadian College of Construction Lawyers
Overseas (and sole US) Member of the United Kingdom's Society of Construction Arbitrators
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London)
Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators
Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Fellow of the National Contract Management Association
Head of The Global Engineering and Construction Group
JAMS -- The Dispute Resolution Experts!
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The obligation of the legal profession is, or has long been thought to be, to
serve as healers of human conflicts. To fulfill that traditional obligation
means that there should be mechanisms that can produce an acceptable
result in the shortest possible time, with the least possible expense and with
a minimum of stress on the participants. That is what justice is all about. ....
My overview of the work of the courts from a dozen years on the Court of
Appeals [U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit] and now
16 in my present position [Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court],
added to 20 years of private practice, has given me some new perspectives....
One thing an appellate judge learns very quickly is that a large part of all the
litigation in the courts is an exercise in futility and frustration.
A large proportion of civil disputes in the courts could be disposed of more
satisfactorily in some other way....
The Honorable Warren E. Burger, Using Arbitration To Achieve Justice, 40 Arb. J. 3 (1985).
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