ROBERT A. CREO
Mediator * Arbitrator * Educator * Settlement Counsel
Mr. Creo has significant experience as an advocate and a neutral in tort, employment, insurance, commercial, construction, real estate and other practice areas. He has been retained to serve as settlement counsel by law firms to negotiate complex and large claims on their behalf.
Mr. Creo has served over 4,000 days as a neutral since 1979 in thousands of cases, including hundreds of claims of serious injury, death, complex business transactions and commercial cases involving multi-million dollar settlements. He has served as a court-appointed Special Master involving class action resolutions. He served as an arbitrator for Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association and for the National Football League and National Football Players Association. He served as neutral for the United States Senate, Select Committee on Ethics, Office of Fair Employment Practices from 1992 to 1997.
Mr. Creo has been a neutral for numerous dispute resolution organizations such as American Arbitration Association; CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution; Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; JAMS; National Association of Securities Dealers; Pa. Bureau of Mediation and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pa. He is a member of numerous organizations and has held leadership positions in many of them, including as the first President of the International Academy of Mediators. Mr. Creo is recognized internationally in the fields of mediation and negotiation. He is an Adjunct Professor at both Duquesne University School of Law and the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law. He conducts educational programs for professional organizations. He has published extensively on dispute resolution.
Mr. Creo earned his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1974 from Brandeis University and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 1977, where he was Senior Editor of the Washington University Law Quarterly.
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Robert A. Creo INTERVIEW May 2004 File Details:
Play Length: 23 minutes Format: Windows Media File size : 45mb (best results with broadband) Robert A. Creo's interview has been included in a two hour DVD, The Mediators: Views from the Eye of the Storm, Vol. I. This DVD is a remarkable collection of observations and experiences of 31 of the best known and most experienced mediators in the world. To purchase this DVD, visit www.mediate.com/views. |
NEW CPR PODCAST - ROBERT A. CREO
DATE: MONDAY, 13 APRIL 2009
TIME: 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M. (EST)
LIVE Webcast -- Apologies in Medical Malpractice Claims
In this first installment of the Master Mediator Series, Robert A. Creo, Founder of the Master Mediator Institute, explains the pros, cons, ethical, and legal ramifications of an apology when resolving medical malpractice claims.
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Creo’s ADR Book --- Book Review by Judith Meyer
Judith Meyer is a full-time mediator and arbitrator. She is an adjunct professor of ADR at Cornell Law School. She serves as a judge pro tem for the Philadelphia Commerce Court.
Judith Meyer’s Book Review is published in The Pennsylvania Lawyer, Nov-Dec 2007 (Pages 48-49).
Book Review, available to download: 
Book Review by Judith Meyer
The Master Mediator
Robert A. Creo is writing a regular web column, The Master Mediator, on The CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution website. Mr. Creo discusses effective mediation room techniques for neutrals. The column is now available to the general public by visiting www.cpradr.org.
