Hal Gray

Mr. Gray has over thirty-five years of experience as a Construction, Commercial and Real Estate Arbitrator. During that time he has served as a single Arbitrator or Member/Chair...

Experience

Mr. Gray has over thirty-five years of experience as a Construction, Commercial and Real Estate Arbitrator. During that time he has served as a single Arbitrator or Member/Chair on approximately 300 cases.

Work History

Herbert H. Gray, III, P. C., Atlanta, GA - 2024 - Present; Managing Partner, Ragsdale Beals Seigler Patterson & Gray, LLP, Atlanta, GA - 1999 to 2023; Partner, Varner Stephens Wingfield and Humphries, LLP, Atlanta, GA - 1980 to 1999; Associate; Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy (now Bryan Cave LLP), Atlanta, GA - 1978 to 1980.

Training

Faculty, AAA, “Pre-Hearing and Hearing Best Practices - Arbitration from A to Z – For Both Advocates and Arbitrators”, American Arbitration Association and College of Commercial Arbitrators, presented to the Orlando Bar Association and The Florida Bar, Orlando, FL – 2016; presented to the Dade County Bar Association, Florida International University School of Law, The Florida Association of Women Lawyers and the Cuban American Bar Association, Miami, FL - 2017; Faculty, AAA Annual Construction Conference, Miami, FL - 2016 Faculty, American Bar Association Annual Spring Dispute Resolution Conference, New York City, NY - 2016; AAA/ICDR/Mediation.org Neutrals’ Conference, New Orleans, LA - 2016; AAA “Exercising Arbitrator Discretion”, (ACE0011) - 2015; Annual Arbitration Review, AAA and Georgia Arbitrators’ Forum, Atlanta, GA - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017; American College of Civil Trial Mediators Annual Conference – Laguna Niguel, CA – 2015; Portsmouth, NH - 2016; American Bar Association Annual Spring Dispute Resolution Conference, Seattle, WA - 2015; American Bar Association Annual Spring Dispute Resolution Conference, Miami, FL - 2014; Faculty, ABA 11th Annual Advanced Mediation and Advocacy Skills Institute, Section of Dispute Resolution, Nashville, TN - 2013; College of Commercial Arbitrators Annual Conferences, Denver, CO – 2011; New York City, NY – 2012, Albuquerque, NM – 2013; Los Angeles, CA – 2014; New York City, NY – 2015; Faculty, Orlando, FL - 2016; AAA/ICDR Neutrals’ Conference, Scottsdale, AZ - 2012; AAA “Maximizing Efficiency & Economy in Arbitration: Challenges at the Preliminary Hearing”, Atlanta, GA - 2011; AAA “Construction Mediation: Controlling Your Own Destiny”, Atlanta, GA - 2011 Faculty, AAA National Webinar, “Consolidation and Joinder Issues in Construction Arbitration: What Construction Counsel Need to Know”, 2011; AAA/ICDR Neutrals’ Conference, Orlando, FL - 2010; National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, “Advanced Mediator Training”, Orlando, FL - 2010; Henning Mediation, “Civil Mediation”, Atlanta, GA - 2008; AAA “Dealing With Delay Tactics in Arbitration”, (ACE004), 2007 AAA “Chairing an Arbitration Panel: Managing Procedures, Process & Dynamics”, (ACE005), 2006; AAA “Pro Se: Managing Cases Involving Self-Represented Parties”, (ACE002), 2005; AAA “Arbitration Awards: Safeguarding, Deciding & Writing Awards”, (ACE001), 2004; Faculty, “AAA Arbitrator Update”, Atlanta, GA - 2002; AAA “Arbitrator Update”, Atlanta, GA - 2001; AAA “Construction Industry Arbitrator II Training: Advanced Case Management Issues”, Atlanta, GA - 2001; AAA “Construction Arbitrator Training”, Atlanta, GA - 1997

License(s)

Admitted to all State and Federal Courts in Georgia; United States Supreme Court.

Education

A.B. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 1975 J.D. Emory University School of Law - 1978

Publications

“Georgia Construction Law – What to Do When...?”, National Business Institute, (Eau Claire, WI 1997, 2000, 2003); “Advanced Georgia Construction Law”, National Business Institute, (Eau Claire WI 1999, 2000); “Georgia Mechanics’ and Materialmen’s Liens”, National Business Institute (Eau Claire, WI 2003); “Dispossessory and Distraint Procedures”, Georgia Jurisprudence, Lawyers Co-op Publishing Company, (Rochester, N.Y. 1995); “Ejectment”, Georgia Jurisprudence, Lawyers Co-op Publishing Company, (Rochester, N.Y. 1995); “Arbitrating a Mechanic’s Lien Claim”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, (Athens, GA 1995); “Discovery in Mechanic’s Lien Actions”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, (Athens, GA 1993, 1994); “Tenant Improvements and Construction Liens”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, (Athens, GA 1998); “Arbitrating Commercial Real Estate Disputes”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, (Athens, GA 2000); “A Short Bankruptcy Primer” (with W. Russell Patterson, Jr., Esq.), The Associated General Contractors, Georgia Chapter (Atlanta, GA 2009); “Preference Payments in Bankruptcy –or-- ‘What Do You Mean I Have to Give the Money Back?’” (with W. Russell Patterson, Jr., Esq.) , The Associated General Contractors, Georgia Chapter (Atlanta, GA 2009); “’Engagement Letters’ and ‘Litigation’ – Making Sure the Roles Are Defined” (with John Hoehner, Esq.), ABA Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, Fall Meeting (Philadelphia, PA 2009); “Dispute Resolution Procedures During and After Construction”, Construction Law for Architects, Engineers and Contractors, Half-Moon Seminars, Inc. (Eau Claire, WI 2010); ’ The Economy of Single Neutral Med-Arb”, DR Currents, State Bar of Georgia Dispute Resolution Section (Atlanta, GA 2011); and ’Building Resolutions’, American Arbitration Association (New York, NY 2011) “ADR: Arbitrating and Mediating Construction and Mechanics’ Lien Claims”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (Athens, GA 2012); “Obstacles to Agreement and How To Overcome Them”, Practical Mediation, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (Athens, GA 2012); “Avoiding and Addressing Impasse from a Plaintiff’s Point of View”, ABA 11th Annual Advanced Mediation and Advocacy Skills Institute, (Chicago, IL 2013); “Commercial Arbitration: What Georgia Judges Need to Know and Why”, Institute for Continuing Judicial Education in Georgia, College of Commercial Arbitrators, (Austin, TX 2015); “Arriving at a Decision”, Preparing and Managing a Successful Construction Arbitration, American Arbitration Association and College of Commercial Arbitrators (Austin, TX 2015); “The 2015 Changes to the AAA Construction Tribunal Rules”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (Athens, GA 2015); “Arbitration – What You Should Know and Why”, Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (Athens, GA 2016); “The Path to Effective Mediation – Thoughts and Suggestions From Experienced Mediators”, (with John A. Sherrill, Esq., Harold Coleman, Jr., Esq. and Others), American Arbitration Association (New York, NY 2016); “Motion Practice in Arbitration”, (with R. Daniel Douglass, Esq. and E. Tyron Brown, Esq.), Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (Athens, GA 2016); “Protocols for Construction Site Visits”, College of Commercial Arbitrators (Austin, TX 2016); “Arbitrating Real Estate Disputes”, (with John A. Sherrill, Esq. and J. Matthew Geyer, Esq.), College of Commercial Arbitrators (Austin, TX 2017).

Awards

Recipient of the Justice Harold Clarke Award for Distinguished Contribution to Dispute Resolution in Georgia awarded by the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution and the State Bar of Georgia Dispute Resolution Section. Appointed by the Georgia Supreme Court as a Member of the Georgia Commission on Dispute Resolution. Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia - Atlanta Magazine; Georgia Super Lawyer in both Alternative Dispute Resolution and Construction Law (one of two lawyers so listed).

Panels

Construction Mega Project, Construction, Real Estate, Environmental, Commercial and Large and Complex Arbitration, and Mediation Panels, American Arbitration Association; Commercial and Construction Panels, International Centre for Dispute Resolution; Construction, Insurance and Insurance Policy Holder Panels, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution; Master Mediator Panel, Mediation.org; Certified Mediator, International Mediation Institute.

Associations

Fellow and Past President, College of Commercial Arbitrators; Fellow, American College of Civil Trial Mediators; Fellow and Past President, Georgia Arbitrators’ Forum; Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers; Fellow, Georgia Academy of Arbitrators and Mediators; Fellow, National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals; Past President Lawyers Club of Atlanta; Member, The Advocates, Ltd.