Stew Cogan

Stew Cogan is a Past President of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators (2015 – 2017). He is in his twenty-eighth 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, and the Mediation Panel of the American Arbitration Association (Master Mediator), and is also on the Civil Rule 39.1 Register of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.