Stew Cogan is in his thirtieth year as a full-time arbitrator and mediator, following twenty years practicing primarily corporate, business, and real estate law.
Experience
Stew Cogan 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 has experience on the Commercial Panel, the Construction Panel, the Large, Complex Case Panel, and the Mediation Panel of the American Arbitration Association, and on the Civil Rule 39.1 Register of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Work History
1996 - present - Full-Time Arbitrator & Mediator, Stew Cogan Arbitrator • Mediator 1981 - 1996 - Partner, Mills & Cogan (and successors) 1976 - 1981 - Associate, Davis Wright Todd Riese & Jones
Training
Commercial Arbitrator Training Workshop - American Arbitration Association Faculty - Arbitrator Training - American Arbitration Association Faculty - Large, Complex Case Arbitrator Training - American Arbitration Association Mediator Training - American Arbitration Association Professional Mediation Skills Training - University of Washington Law School Advanced Mediation Skills Training - Pepperdine University Law School
License(s)
Bar Admissions State of Washington U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington U.S. Tax Court U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals U.S. Supreme Court
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D. 1976 University of California at Berkeley, B.A. with distinction 1973 (Phi Beta Kappa)
Awards
Included in The Best Lawyers in America (Arbitration) 2025 Lawyer of the Year - Arbitration - Seattle (Best Lawyers) 2022 Lawyer of the Year - Arbitration - Seattle (Best Lawyers) 2020 Lawyer of the Year - Arbitration - Seattle (Best Lawyers) 2016 Lawyer of the Year - Arbitration - Seattle (Best Lawyers) Included in The Best Lawyers in America (Mediation) 2025 Lawyer of the Year - Mediation - Seattle (Best Lawyers) 2021 Lawyer of the Year - Mediation - Seattle (Best Lawyers) 2017 Lawyer of the Year - Mediation - Seattle (Best Lawyers) Washington ADR Super Lawyer - 27 Consecutive Years (1999 - 2025) Top 100 Super Lawyer (16 of the Last 18 Years) One of Seattle’s Top Lawyers (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007) (Seattle Magazine) One of Puget Sound’s Top Business Lawyers (2006, 2007, 2008) (Seattle Business Monthly)
Panels
Commercial Arbitration Panel - American Arbitration Association Construction Arbitration Panel - American Arbitration Association Large, Complex Case Panel - American Arbitration Association Mediation Panel - American Arbitration Association (Master Mediator) Mediator & Arbitrator - American Health Law Association U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington Civil Rule 39.1 Register King County Superior Court Special Master
Associations
Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators (President 2015 - 2017) Charter Member - National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals Charter Member - ADR Roundtable
