Gregory P. Szuter

Greg Szuter has a wide range of substantive range professional experience in a variety of organizational, institutional and industry settings with regard to both commercial and employment law. Most uniquely for neutrals he has a major concentration in ERISA retirement plans (qualified, unqualified, and multi-employer) and welfare plans (severance, healthcare, VEBA, supplemental benefits) and Fair Labor Standards Act issues. In the course of 30 years in employment law practice he has had experience in claims of all types from discrimination/accommodation to traditional labor/management relations to executive compensation. Other than employment, he has experience with non-compete, healthcare providers, land use, probate and security law and commercial contracts of all sorts (shareholder, partner,buy-sell, franchise, notes and vendor/supplier).

Greg has been a mediator since the Northern District first organized the ADR department in 1990 and has continued on  the roster after 2014 when it was reduced from over 200 to less than 100 mediators.

Greg has also mediated matters for American Arbitration Association employment mediation panel, the EEOC, U.S. Postal Service, Ohio SERB, and Ohio Dept. of Education, Common Pleas business mediation as well as private meditations in employment cases.

Since 2000 he also serves as labor arbitrator for FMCS and AAA and as an interest arbitrator and factfinder for the Ohio SERB and Iowa Public Employment Relations Board and civil service hearing officer for Cuyahoga County. His arbitration practice includes the AAA Employment, and Employee Benefit, Trustee Deadlock panels and the FINRA statutory employment claim panel, among others.  He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

• John Carroll University -AB 1967 Cum laude
• Kent State University - MA 1971 Magna cum Laude
• Case Western Reserve University School of Law - JD 1973

• Notre Dame University Law School, Negotiation (2000)
• American Arbitration Association, National Mediation Conference (2000)
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Multiparty and Regulatory Facilitation (2000), Workplace Mediation (2000), Arbitration Institute (1999)
• United States Postal Service, Transformational Mediation (1998)

• American Bar Association- Labor and Employment Section, ADR Section;
• American  Arbitration Association  : Commercial, Employment, ERISA, and Labor panels. 
• American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)
• American for Conflict Resolution (ACR) - professional member, arbitration
• Best Lawyers in America - ADR
• Cleveland Bar Association - Labor and Employment Section (Chair, 1995-6, Executive committee, 1993-7)
• Cuyahoga County - Contract Civil Service Hearing Officer
• FINRA Arbitrator
• FMCS Arbitration Panel
• International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP)
• Martindale Hubbell-ALM, Top rated lawyer in labor and employment
• Iowa Public Relations Board Roster of Neutrals
• National Academy of Arbitrators (labor/employment)
• Ohio Bar Association - Labor and Employment Law Section
• Ohio State Employment Relations Board Roster of Neutrals
• Society of Federal Labor Relations Professionals (SFLERP)

$250 hourly for participants using the NADN calendar