Mediator Resume

Highly experienced construction lawyer with strong focus on infrastructure (major/signature bridge; highway; light rail; airport terminal, concourse, taxiway & runway; water treatment plant); commercial (high-/low-rise); and industrial projects. Has handled complex litigation and arbitration for all aspects of the construction industry throughout the U.S. and internationally. Substantial practice emphasis on pursuing/defending claims for delays, disruptions, and productivity losses. Experience serving as a mediator, arbitrator (binding/nonbinding), and DRB member/chair includes large and complex claims/disputes and spans infrastructure, toll road, highway, roadway, port, manufacturing/warehouse, commercial, and residential projects.

Dillon ADR & Law, P.A. - Founder / Shareholder

Attorney, Arbitrator, Mediator, Early Neutral Evaluator, Dispute Review Board Member

Founder/Shareholder, Dillon ADR & Law, P.A., 2025 - Present; Senior Partner, Moye, O’Brien, Pickert, Dillon & Masterson, LLP, 1997 - 2024; Associate, Peter A. Robertson & Associates, 1995 - 1997.

Over 30 years of private practice in construction law and construction litigation. Practice heavily focused on resolution of very large and complex construction disputes throughout the entire U.S. and internationally, including on many mega-projects and with alternative delivery systems, especially for design-build and PPP delivery methods. Experience spans multiple projects each in many separate construction industry sectors: 1) road, bridge, interstate, and toll road infrastructure projects; 2) major / signature bridge projects (including segmental concrete bridges, suspension bridges, and cable-stayed bridges); 3) light rail commuter train and subway projects; 4) heavy-rail projects and the first U.S. high-speed rail project; 5) vertical construction projects (high-rise and low-rise, both private / commercial and public sector); 6) airport terminal, concourse, runway and taxiway projects; 7) major water infrastructure projects (Third Locks Expansion at the Panama Canal, largest U.S. dam raise project, and water treatment plants); 8) EPC / industrial projects (production facilities, petroleum refineries, high voltage transmission lines traversing an entire state); and 9) residential projects. For at least fourteen projects, the matters in dispute ranged from $100 million to over $1 billion. A substantial portion of experience has been for very large delay, disruption, and productivity loss claims. Types of disputes have also included claims regarding: extra / additional work; liens and bonds; defective construction / defective design; post-design / construction structural failures; differing site conditions; supply-chain issues including tariffs and taxes; qui tam litigation / False Claims Act allegations; bid protests; performance defaults and project abandonment; business torts (fraud, negligent misrepresentation, tortious interference, civil conspiracy, conversion, R.I.C.O.); contested domestication of foreign country money judgment; consequential damages; cardinal change; adjoining property issues (structural damage, loss of value, trespass, nuisance); suspension and debarment proceedings. Additional experience with criminal investigations regarding material substitutions and billing practices; environmental investigations; OSHA investigations and citations; labor & employment claims and union grievances arising out of construction projects (discrimination, retaliation, hostile workplace, violation of collective bargaining agreement); and catastrophic personal injury / property damage claims from heavy civil construction projects. Practice has included representation of industry participants with differing viewpoints, including design-builders, design / engineering firms, owners, developers, contractors, subcontractors and sureties. Representation has extended to all phases of legal services - from procurement (contract review, preparation and negotiation, and bid protests) to project counsel services for the development / investigation of claims to the prosecution / defense of disputes in all forms of dispute resolution, including appeals. Beyond the nearly three decades of construction law / litigation experience, educational background is in construction management, with four years of construction work experience in the field. Honors include, among others: Board Certified in Construction Law by The Florida Bar (2011-present); Leading Construction Lawyer by Chambers & Partners (2007-2024); Florida Super Lawyers - Construction Law (2011-2026); Best Lawyers - Construction Law (2023-2027); Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" - Construction Law, St. Petersburg, FL (2027); The Legal 500 - Leading Lawyer, Construction Law; America's Most Honored Lawyers by The American Registry (2020-2025); Top Attorneys in Florida by The American Registry (2017-2018, 2020, 2024-2026); Orlando's Top Lawyers by Orlando Magazine (2023-2025).

Panelist - American Arbitration Association National Roster of Construction Mediators; Panelist - American Arbitration Association National Roster of Construction Arbitrators; Panelist - American Arbitration Association National Dispute Avoidance & Resolution Board Roster; Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator; Georgia Registered General Civil Mediator; Florida Department of Transportation Dispute Review Board panelist roster; Member/Chairperson of ad hoc Dispute Review Boards; Florida Supreme Court Qualified Arbitrator. Experience serving as a mediator, arbitrator (binding and non-binding), and dispute review board member/chairperson includes large and complex claims/disputes and spans major infrastructure projects, toll roads, highways, roadways, major port projects, large manufacturing / warehouse projects, commercial projects, and residential projects. Experience includes multi-party disputes (four or more parties). Amounts in dispute has ranged from small matters to "bet the company" matters. Extensive experience as an advocate in all forms of ADR - binding arbitration, non-binding arbitration / early neutral evaluation, dispute review boards, and mediation, throughout the United States and Canada. Mediation experience spans all sizes of claims from small projects through mega-projects, throughout the United States and Canada. This experience includes nearly all sectors of the construction industry: major infrastructure projects (roads, highways, bridges and toll roads, as well as the largest U.S. dam raise project); commercial construction projects of all sizes through a major 4-building high-rise condominium complex; signature bridge infrastructure projects; numerous light rail commuter train and subway projects, the first high-speed rail project in the U.S.; several airport terminal, concourse, runway and taxiway projects; public sector and private sector projects; and residential construction projects. This experience as an advocate includes all types of disputes and a geographic range throughout the United States and Canada, and with disputes of all sizes, including those exceeding $1 billion. Binding arbitration experience includes a very broad spectrum of amounts in dispute, ranging from $1 million through $250+ million, across major infrastructure projects (roads, highways, bridges, and water treatment plants), mega projects (major interstate revitalization and widening, subway projects, and the first high-speed rail project in the U.S., running from New Haven, CT to Boston, MA), and commercial construction projects. Dispute Review Board and early neutral evaluation experience includes major infrastructure projects (roads, highways and bridges, as well as a major dam raise project), and mega projects (major interstate revitalizations and widenings, major / signature bridges, commuter rail project running through a major international airport, and the first high-speed rail project in the U.S.). In total, over 100 hearing days of Dispute Review Board formal hearing experience. Has significant ADR training to serve as as a mediator, an arbitrator (binding and non-binding), and as a Dispute Review Board panelist / chairperson.

Mediation is not a one-day event; it is a process that begins well before the mediation session and often continues afterward. Meaningful preparation is essential to successful resolution. Pre-mediation conferences with counsel, clients, insurance adjusters, and other key decision-makers are strongly encouraged as early as practicable to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, risks, costs, and realistic settlement parameters. Early exchange of substantiated demands, damages analyses, and other information necessary for informed negotiation is likewise encouraged to facilitate productive discussions and enable obtaining appropriate settlement authority. Presentations in joint session are generally preferred, so long as they are respectful, factual and professional, because they allow decision-makers to hear the opposing party's perspective firsthand; however, mediations may also proceed without opening presentations when circumstances warrant or based on the parties' preferences. Depending on the needs of the parties and applicable ethical considerations, both facilitative and evaluative techniques may be employed. Mediations may be conducted in person, remotely, or in hybrid formats, with flexibility in scheduling to accommodate participants across jurisdictions, time zones, and other business demands. Thorough preparation, attention to detail, persistence, and unwavering commitment to confidentiality characterize the mediation process. Considerable advance effort is devoted to understanding the dispute, contractual framework, underlying facts, and applicable legal principles. When a matter does not resolve on mediation day, involvement continues to assist the parties in exploring every reasonable path toward complete or partial resolution in the days, weeks, or months that may follow.

Familiar with and accustomed to online / virtual meeting platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, among others. Willing to utilize online platforms for preliminary hearings, conferences, formal hearings and mediations. In addition, willing to conduct in-person arbitration hearings and mediations, as well as conducting via hybrid formats. Fluent in Microsoft 365 and Adobe suites of programs. Experienced in navigating electronically-stored information and records in a variety of processing, production, management and hosting / document control platforms. Willing to receive all submissions and evidence in electronic format. Hardcopy submissions are not required, but may be desired for certain, limited items. Successfully completed Clearbrief Academy, July 2025.

University of Florida College of Law (J.D. with honors - 1995); University of Florida M.E. Rinker School of Construction Management (B.S., Construction Management, with high honors - 1992).

Admitted to the Bar: Florida (1996), Georgia (1996); U.S. District Court: Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida; U.S. Court of Appeals: Eleventh and Federal Circuits.

Member, The Florida Bar, including Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section (member Construction Law Committee's ADR Subcommittee), and Alternative Dispute Resolution Section (Executive Council member; Chair of Arbitration Committee; member of CLE, Mediation, Strategic Planning, and Summit Planning Committees) Member, The State Bar of Georgia (including Construction Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections) Member, American Bar Association, including: Forum on Construction Law (member, Division 13 - Government Construction (member, Steering Committee), Division 1 - Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Division 5 - General Contractors (member, Nuts & Bolts Webinar Series Subcommittee), and Division 10 - Infrastructure and Energy); and Dispute Resolution Section (member, Arbitration, Mediation, and ADR Skills Building and Technology Innovations Committees) Member, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (including Florida Chapter) Director, University of Florida - Central Florida Construction Management Alumni Group - 2012-present (President, 2014-2015; Vice President, 2013-2014) Director, ACE Mentor Program, Central Florida Area Chapter - 2013-present

Presented various construction law topics for client organizations, for industry / trade associations, and in sponsored, continuing legal education courses (1997-present); Guest lecturer for the Construction Law course for graduate construction management students and law students at the University of Florida, and for the Contracts course for undergraduate construction management students at the University of Florida (1997–present); Guest lecturer for the Construction Law course at Stetson Law School (2026-present); Presenter, Labor & Supply Chain Pressures: ADR’s Role in Managing Workforce and Material Disruptions, AAA’s 2026 Construction Conference in Marina del Rey, CA (2026); Presenter, "Panel Discussion - Hot Topics in Arbitration," The Florida Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section's Third Arbitration Advocacy Institute; Presenter, "Practical Considerations for Developing an ADR Practice," American Arbitration Association’s Southeast & Midwest Regions’ Construction Roundtable (2025); Presenter, "Selecting the 'Right' Dispute Resolution Procedure," American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law's Fall Meeting, Division 1 Luncheon (2025); Co-Author, Pricing Disputes Chapter for “Construction Disputes: Representing the Contractor” 4th Ed., published by Wolters Kluwer (2020); Author / Presenter, Primary Legal Concepts for Delay Claims Chapter for the Seminar Group’s “Construction Project Scheduling & Delay Claims” course (2014); Co-Author, Shattering the ‘Windows Schedule Analysis Chapter for the Seminar Group’s “Construction Project Scheduling & Delay Claims” course (2014); Co-Author, Damages and Remedies in Construction Disputes Chapter for The Florida Bar’s “Construction Law Certification Review Course” (2013); Co-Author, USA Chapter for The European Lawyer Reference Series “Construction Law” (2012).

Hourly Rate: $500.00 Daily Rate: Not provided Study Rate: $500.00/hr Cancellation: Not provided Cancellation Period: Not provided Comment: Compensation rates, established by the AAA, are set forth in the applicable Consumer Mediation Procedures.

English

United States of America

St. Petersburg, Florida