McQuade Mediation


Mediation, Arbitration, and Dispute Resolution Services


Richard McQuade has over 30 of years experience judging, mediating, and arbitrating complex, multi-party disputes involving as much as $500 million. Richard McQuade has successfully resolved numerous disputes involving Fortune 500 companies. His experience includes:

Commercial Litigation/Corporate Shareholder Disputes:
Shareholder derivative suits and partnership rights are common topics of his dispute resolutions. His business experience gives him a quick understanding of the issues and provides a basis for his unique, innovative strategies to resolve issues.

Insurance Coverage/Bad Faith Claims:
Richard McQuade has mediated numerous cases involving insurance coverage and bad faith claims.

Antitrust-Unfair Trade Practices:
Several successful resolutions have involved price-fixing and other anti-competition claims.

Personal Injury/Wrongful Death:
Many of Richard McQuade's mediations involve Personal Injury and Wrongful Death claims. Richard McQuade's years of experience with jury verdicts puts him in a unique position to evaluate liability and damages and to accurately assess settlement values.

Environmental Actions/Toxic Torts:
He has presided over several Superfund cases while serving in the United States Courts. Since that time, he has successfully mediated Superfund and toxic tort cases involving air, ground, and waterborne chemical dispersion.

Professional Malpractice:
Jude McQuade has successfully resolved numerous malpractice claims, including legal, medical, architectural, engineering and accounting.

Class Action Lawsuits:
Richard McQuade has resolved a number of class action lawsuits for Fortune 500 companies. He has been called upon frequently to give his opinion as to the fairness of class action settlements. He is familiar with the subtleties needed to craft successful solutions.

Construction:
Richard McQuade has successfully resolved construction defect claims involving tens of millions of dollars.

Employment Distputes:
A significant part of Richard McQuade's mediation practice involves resolving Title VII and ADA type disputes.

Richard McQuade has mediated and arbitrated disputes across the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Denver, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, Youngstown, Pittsburg, Fort Lauderdale, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Ann Arbor, Cedar Rapids, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Waco, and Des Moines.


Richard B. McQuade, Jr.
Former United States District Court Judge



Experienced~Patient~Persistent

Call (419) 265-1107