Title
President, CEO

Services
Arbitrator, Mediator, Facilitator, Referee, Private Judge and Justice, Attorney

Role
Highly respected and renowned for his Judicial temperament, insistence on an orderly party and attorney driven and owned process, as well as for his fierce commitment to fairness and impartiality to all sides in the most contentious of conflicts, Reginald "Reg" A. Holmes is The Holmes Law Firm's President, CEO, and Primary Neutral Services Provider. His personability, quick intellect and existing deep subject matter knowledge, coupled with his energy and commitment to being a student of the subject matters with which he is entrusted, often allow him to give parties and their attorneys invaluable holistic and often creative insights into the nature of their differences and how consensus or resolution might be best achieved. Similarly, he constantly monitors the latest trends and developments in the ADR community and continuously designs and updates the company's resolution approach. He is the embodiment of the firm and what clients, attorneys, ADR service providers, and other users can expect when engaging the services of the firm.

Biography
As noted above, Mr. Holmes is a multidisciplined and deeply experienced attorney. He has amassed and continuously updates an enormous base of subject matter knowledge, legal expertise, and ADR skills. He has enjoyed remarkable career success as Patent & Intellectual Property Counsel, Corporate, Employment, & International Law Counsel, and Venture & Emerging Business Counsel. He is also an accomplished Business Strategist, Consultant, and P&L line management executive.

His vast base of experience, reputation for fairness, and rock solid personal integrity coupled with the courage to make the tough judgment calls, his balanced judicial temperament and an approachable judicial demeanor have created great demand for his services as an Arbitrator, Mediator, Conciliator, and Private Judge.

ADR Experience

Since 1988, Mr. Holmes has served the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) profession as chair, sole and panel Arbitrator, Mediator, Referee, Private Judge or Judge pro tem in hundreds of complex disputes. Amounts in dispute over which he has presided have ranged from small dollar matters to amounts in controversy well in excess of $200 million. Mr. Holmes has handled disputes from a variety of fields, such as Intellectual Property and Technology, Labor and Employment, Real Property and Construction, Financial, Entertainment, Sports, and Franchise, as well as International disputes. Subject matters have ranged widely, including software fraud, entertainment industry disputes, termination of distributorship, breach of a sports contract, patent infringement, race discrimination, sexual harassment, partnership dissolution, stock, securities and investor fraud, construction defect, breach of entertainment distribution contract, breach of surety and trustee obligation, identity theft, defamation, and imaging rights theft, software defect fraud and breach of international distribution rights. He is a frequent "Markman" hearing officer and discovery Referee. Having been on both sides of the table - as an attorney and as a judge - and decades of great success serving a wide spectrum of industries makes Mr. Holmes consummate ADR professional with impartiality and expertise you can trust for the resolution of your dispute.

Besides handling disputes, Mr. Holmes is a frequent panelist and lecturer on ADR, private justice and technology topics for various bar and business organizations. He is a member of the AAA's Large Complex Case Panel (LCCP) and former chair of the Los Angeles B2B Advisory Committee.

ADR Training Programs (Partial list)

• AAA/ICDR Neutrals Conference, 2009
• ICDR Joint Colloquium on International Arbitration, 2008
• College of Commercial Arbitrators Annual Meeting, 2008
• AAA Construction Mediation Conference, 2007
• ICDR International Symposia in Advanced Case Management Issues, 2007
• NAA Beyond the Protocol: The Future of Due Process in Workplace Dispute Resolution, 2007
• AAA Pro Se: Managing Cases Involving Self-Represented Parties (ACE002), 2006
• AAA Neutrals Conference, 2006, 2005
• AAA Dealing with Delay Tactics in Arbitration (ACE004), 2005
• AAA Arbitration Awards: Safeguarding, Deciding & Writing Awards (ACE001), 2005
• AAA Commercial Arbitrator II Training: Advanced Case Management Issues, 2001
• Price Waterhouse Company, Directing Efficient High Stakes ADR Proceedings, 2000
• AAA/USATF Doping Grievance Arbitrator Training, 2000
• AAA Commercial Arbitrator Training, 1999
• Los Angeles County Bar, Arbitration and Mediation Seminar, 1998
• Various other ADR training.

Attorney Experience

Mr. Holmes has advised, negotiated, litigated, arbitrated, and lectured in his specialty areas throughout the United States and around the world. He has held General Manager and Corporate Counsel positions at both Rockwell International and McDonnell Douglas Corporation. He served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Horne Entertainment Inc. and Western Regional Counsel for Wang Laboratories Inc. His private practice expertise includes a partnership (Of Counsel) at the national law firm of Baker & Hostetler and a general partnership at The Holmes Law Firm.

Mr. Holmes is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and has practiced throughout the United States while maintaining offices in Pasadena, California, Atlanta, Georgia, and Chicago, Illinois. He is active in a number of civic, social, and professional organizations.

Professional Licenses

Admitted to the Bar: Virginia, 1978; Illinois, 1979; California, 1981; U.S. Patent Bar (inactive), 1979

Education

University of Florida (BS, Electrical Engineering-1975); Georgetown University (JD-1978)

Professional Associations and Titles Held

• State Bar of California (International Law Section, Executive Committee; Franchise Law Section, Executive Committee)
• Los Angeles County Bar Association (Board of Trustees, Judicial Appointments Committee)
• Langston Bar Association (Past President)
• California Judicial Council
• Public Counsel (Past Board of Directors)
• College of Commercial Arbitrators (Fellow)
• California Association of Distinguished Arbitrators (Fellow)
• Association for International Arbitration
• Kappa Alpha Psi (Life Member)
• NB United Fund (Past Chairman)
• Past President, Mission Meridian Village Home Owners Association
• Vice-Chairman Board of Trustees, Lake Avenue Community Foundation

Lectures, Speeches, and Presentations

• Commercial Arbitration: Alternative Resolutions or Alternative Litigation?, State Bar of Georgia, ICLE, 2009
• An Essential Toolbox for the Champions of ADR, 2009
• The Private Justice System in a Post-ADR World, 2009
• A Primer of Mediating and Arbitrating the Multimillion Dollar Franchise Dispute, 2008
• A Primer on Arbitrating International Intellectual Property Cases, 2008
• A Better Option: Mediating and Arbitrating the High-Stakes Employment Case, 2008
• Understanding and Winning Consumer Arbitration Cases, 2008
• When the Building Must Go On: The Med/Arb Option for Construction and Real Estate Projects, 2007
• Avoiding Armageddon through ADR, 2006
• Keys for Successful USA Based International Arbitration, 2005
• Winning Mediation Strategies, 2001
• Winning Arbitration Strategies for the Large Complex Patent Case, 1999
• Making the Intellectual Property Pirate Walk the Plank, 1994

Publications

• The Legalities of Exporting, Department of Commerce, 1992-94
• Structuring Distribution Agreements in Asia, Computer Law Institute, 1988
• Contributing editor, Negotiating Computer Contracts, 1984, 1992.