Hunter Hughes serves as a mediator, arbitrator, and special master. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees with honors from the University of Virginia. Before 2022, his legal practice and mediation practice were based in Atlanta, GA. Today his mediation practice is based out of San Diego, CA.

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Mr. Hughes is a retired Distinguished Fellow in the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and has been selected for inclusion in multiple editions of Woodward/White’s “Best Lawyers in America,” Chambers’ USA “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” “Who’s Who in American Law, Law & Politics,” Atlanta Magazine’s Top 10 and Top 100 “Georgia Super Lawyers Top 10 and Top 100 and Georgia Trend’s “Legal Elite.”

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Mr. Hughes is the past Chairman and Vice Chairman of the EEO Committee Administrative Section of the ABA. He was President of the Corporate Counsel Section of the Atlanta Bar Association and served as Program Co-Chair of the EEO Committee of Labor Section of the American Bar Association. He is the past Program Chairman of the American Employment Law Council. He also served as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association Commercial and Employment Panels.

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Mr. Hughes has written numerous articles and publications, including “How Our Subconscious Bias Impacts the Negotiations,” American Journal of Mediation; Chapter 26, “Mediating Class Actions: How Mediators Operate and What They Want,” How ADR Works, BNA Books; “Class Actions in Arbitrations,” A Treatise Project of the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section.

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Mr. Hughes has served as lead trial counsel in hundreds of cases, including nationwide class and mass actions. He has also acted as lead counsel in arbitrations and numerous proceedings before state and federal agencies.

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He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia Law School teaching negotiations and economic behaviorism. He has also been a speaker throughout the country at several hundred seminars and conferences on various topics, including trial practice, alternate dispute resolution, settlement strategies, damages, negotiation skills, and a wide range of substantive matters.

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Mr. Hughes is admitted to practice in the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia, the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court.

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