Stew Cogan
Stew Cogan
Seattle
Washington (WA)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Profile
Stew Cogan is in his sixteenth year as a full-time arbitrator and mediator, following twenty years practicing primarily corporate, business, and real estate law. Stew has arbitrated more than 300 cases and mediated more than 2,000 cases. Among the matters he has handled as a neutral are cases involving partnership and shareholder disputes, contracts, business valuation, professional negligence, real estate, construction, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, covenants not to compete, intellectual property, insurance coverage, land use, and Constitutional Law. Stew has experience on the Commercial Panel, the Large, Complex Case Panel, and the Mediation Panel of the American Arbitration Association, and on the Civil Rule 39.1 Register of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. He has been named an ADR Super Lawyer by Washington Law & Politics for the thirteen consecutive years from 1999 through 2011. He was named a Top 100 Super Lawyer in 2008, 2009, and 2010. He was also named one of the Best Lawyers in Seattle by Seattle Magazine in its last four surveys in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007, and one of Puget Sound’s Top Business Lawyers by Seattle Business Monthly in 2006, 2007, and 2008. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of mediation and arbitration topics. He is a fellow of the invitation-only College of Commercial Arbitrators and a fellow of the invitation-only American College of Civil Trial Mediators. He is also an arbitrator and mediator for the American Health Lawyers Association. Stew is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, and he is a former president of the King County Bar Association and the Young Lawyers of Washington State. Stew serves on the boards of directors of Physicians Insurance (the dominant medical malpractice insurance carrier in the State of Washington), the national COPD Foundation, the Institute for Family Development, and the Washington Physicians Health Program.
Selected To
Washington Super Lawyers 2011
Washington Super Lawyers 2010
Washington Super Lawyers 2009
Washington Super Lawyers 2008
Washington Super Lawyers 2007
Washington Super Lawyers 2006
Washington Super Lawyers 2005
Washington Super Lawyers 2004
Washington Super Lawyers 2003
Certifications and Credentials
Top Lists
Top 100 Washington Super Lawyers 2010
Top 100 Washington Super Lawyers 2009
Top 100 Washington Super Lawyers 2008
About Stew Cogan
Admitted: 1976, Washington
Professional Webpage: www.acctm.org/scogan/
Honors and Awards:
- Helen Geisness Award, King County Bar Association
- Founders Spirit Award, Alpha One Foundation (2000)
- Governance Award for Distinguished Service in Ethics and the Law, Alpha One Foundation (2005)
- Fellow - College of Commercial Arbitrators (By Invitation Only)
- Charter Member - National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
- Charter Member, ADR Roundtable
- Fellow - American College of Civil Trial Mediators (By Invitation Only)
Bar/Professional Activity:
- President of the Seattle-King County Bar Association (1989-1990)
- Treasurer of the Seattle-King County Bar Association (1981-1982)
- Member, Board of Trustees of the Seattle-King County Bar Association (1983-1986)
- President of the King County Bar Foundation (1981-1983)
- President of the Young Lawyers of Washington State (1982-1983).
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Member, Board of Directors of Physicians Insurance (1999-2011); Member, Board of Directors, Alpha One Foundation (Miami, Florida) (1995-2005); Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Alpha One Foundation (Miami, Florida) (1995-2005); Member, Board of Trustees, Institute for Family Development (Federal Way, Washington) (1997-2011); President, Institute for Family Development (Federal Way, Washington) (1998-2002); Member, Board of Directors, Washington Physicians Health Program (Seattle, Washington) (2007-2011); Member, Board of Directors, COPD Foundation (Miami, Florida) (2009-2011).
Representative Clients:
- Partial list of public educational institutions served as arbitrator or mediator: Auburn School District No. 408; Eatonville School District No. 404; Geyser (Montana) Public Schools; Issaquah School District No. 411; Kent School District No. 415; Lake Washington School District No. 414; Mercer Island School District No. 400; Northshore School District No. 417; Ocean Beach School District No. 101; Orting School District No. 344; Renton School District No. 403; Seattle Pacific University; Seattle School District No. 1; Snoqualmie Valley School District No. 410; South Whidbey School District No. 206; University of Alaska - Fairbanks; University of Washington; University of Washington School of Dentistry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Vancouver School District No. 39.
- Partial list of governmental entities and agencies served as arbitrator or mediator: Alaska Railroad Corporation; Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit); Chehalis-Centralia Regional Airport; City of Bellevue; City of Bonney Lake; City of Brier; City of Des Moines; City of Everett; City of Issaquah; City of Lakewood; City of Lynnwood; City of Mercer Island; City of Mountlake Terrace; City of Puyallup; City of Seattle; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Holmes Harbor Sewer District; Mason County; Matunuska-Susitna (Alaska) Borough; Municipality of Anchorage; Ketchikan (Alaska) Gateway Borough; King County; Pierce County; Port of Seattle; Port of Walla Walla; Seattle Housing Authority; Secretary for Justice of the Hong Kong S.A.R. of China; Secretary of the United States Navy; Snohomish County; Snohomish County PUD No. 1; Sno-Isle Regional Library System; State of Alaska Attorney General; State of Oregon Attorney General; State of Washington Attorney General; Timberland Regional Library District; U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Department of Justice; Washington Department of Social and Health Services; Washington State Department of Natural Resources; Washington State Department of Revenue; Washington State Patrol; Whatcom County; Woodinville Water District; Yakima County.
- Have mediated or arbitrated with more than 60 Fortune 500 companies, more than 60 health care institutions, more than 50 financial institutions, more than 50 insurance companies, more than 40 real estate companies, and hundreds of other companies involved in aerospace, energy, entertainment and media, food services, manufacturing, natural resources, retail, technology, telecommunications, transportation, and other industries.
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