Academy Member Inducted 2014
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Michael S. Geigerman
500 N. Broadway, Suite 1800
St. Louis, MO 63102
Video ConferencingAvailable
- Practice Commenced1995
- # of MEDS (as of 21/12/24)4500
- # of ARBS (as of 21/12/24)
Current Practice
Online / In-Person
Biographical
Mr. Geigerman is the Managing Director of USA&M and has mediated over 4,000 mediations since 1986, including wrongful death claims, environmental law, serious personal injury (involving numerous seven and eight figure settlements), professional malpractice, clergy and school abuse, FELA, automobile and trucking accidents, construction law, premises and product liability, police brutality, discrimination (racial, sex, age and ADA), probate, farm and home foreclosures, complex real estate transactions, insurance coverage as well as commercial and business disputes including claims between multinational organizations and their franchisees, class actions, multi-cultural conflicts and first amendment claims. He serves as a qualified neutral for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri and is a frequent guest speaker at seminars for attorneys, judges and other professionals interested in ADR. Mike has authored a number of articles on ADR. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Washington University School of Law since 2000. Mike has been a Best Lawyer in America (in mediation) since 2007 and a Missouri Super Attorney (in mediation).
Prior to entering private practice, he served as Associate General Counsel for Illini Federal Savings & Loan. From 1973-1997, Mike engaged in the general practice of law in St. Louis, Missouri. Mike is licensed to practice law in Missouri and Illinois.
Case Experience
- ADA Disability
- Admiralty
- Aviation
- Business Dissolution
- Civil Rights
- Class Actions
- Commercial/Business
- Construction
- Consumer Fraud
- Contract Disputes
- Discrimination
- EEOC
- Eminent Domain
- Employment
- Environmental
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Legal Malpractice
- Libel & Slander
- Medical Devices
- Medical Malpractice
- Mortgage Foreclosure
- Nursing Homes
- Partnerships
- Pensions
- Personal Injury
- Police
- Premises Liability
- Probate
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Professional Negligence
- Property Damage
- Railroad & Trucking
- Real Estate
- Sexual Harassment
- Taxation
- Technology
- Torts
- Trademarks/Patents
- Trusts / Estates
- Wrongful Death
Education
- University of Oklahoma, JD 1971
- University of Wisconsin, BA 1968
Memberships & Affiliations
Distinguished Fellow, International Academy of Mediators; Member, The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals; Co-Chair of the Missouri Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (2001-2003) (Chair 2018 – 2020); Member, Missouri Supreme Court ADR Commission; Member, U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri Advisory Committee on ADR; International Academy of Mediators; ADR Committee Chair, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, (1995-1996, 2017-2018) and Fee Dispute Chair (1996-1998); Member, Association of Missouri Mediators; President, Congregation Shaare Emeth (1996-1998); Fellow, American Bar Association.
Rates Information
4-hour minimum
2 pty case is $300/party/hr
3 pty case is $225/party/hr
4 pty case is $200/party/hr