Stew Cogan Arbitrator•Mediator
5403 248th Place Southeast
Issaquah, WA 98029-7620
Stew Cogan is a Past President of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators (2015 – 2017). He is in his thirtieth 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 3,500 cases. Among the matters he has handled as a neutral are cases involving partnership and shareholder disputes, banking law, class actions involving various subjects, contracts, business valuation, professional negligence, real estate, construction, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, covenants not to compete, intellectual property, insurance coverage, land use, wills and trusts, and Constitutional Law.
Stew is on the Commercial Panel, the Construction Panel, the Large, Complex Case Panel, the Healthcare Payor-Payee Panel, and the Mediation Panel of the American Arbitration Association and has been named as a Master Mediator by the AAA. He is also on the Civil Rule 39.1 Register of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Stew has been named a Super Lawyer in the ADR category for the 27 consecutive years from 1999 through 2025. In 16 years since 2008, he was named one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Washington state. Stew is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in both the Mediation and Arbitration categories, and has a Regional Tier 1 designation in both categories. He was selected by Best Lawyers as the Lawyer of the Year in Arbitration in Seattle in 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2025, and as the Lawyer of the Year in Mediation in Seattle in 2017,2021, and 2025.
Stew has been designated as a Master Mediator by the American Arbitration Association. He has been listed in Lexology Index: Commercial Mediation (formerly Who’s Who Legal: Mediation) in multiple years, including 2024, and is one of about 100 mediators in the United States to be so listed. 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. Stew is a frequent speaker on a variety of mediation and arbitration topics. He is a founding member of the ADR Roundtable, a fellow of the invitation-only College of Commercial Arbitrators, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also an Emeritus Member of The William L. Dwyer American Inn of Court, with which he has been involved since 2006.
Harvard Law School, J.D. 1976
University of California at Berkeley, B.A. with distinction 1973 (Phi Beta Kappa)
$900 per hour. Travel time billed at $450 per hour. Travel expenses billed at cost. No charge for canceled mediations.
ADA
Banking
Business
Civil
Commercial
Construction
Contracts
Discrimination
Employment
Entertainment
Environmental
General Mediation
Health Care
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Land Use
Landlord – Tenant
Partnership Dissolution
Probate
Professional Fees
Professional Malpractice
Real Estate
Securities
Tax
