SHELBY R. GRUBBS RESUME GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE OF LAW DIRECT DIAL: (404) 413-9053 MOBILE: (423) 667-6671 E-MAIL: [email protected]

SUMMARY •

2006 – 2009, Chair of Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Practice Section of World Law Group (Network of 52 law firms in 42 countries).

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Editor, International Civil Procedure, Kluwer Law Publishers (2003) – Compares civil procedure across 33 jurisdictions plus the United States.

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Journal articles on negotiation and dispute resolution.

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Numerous presentations including: •

Corporate Social Responsibility - World Law Group, Oslo - Spring 2007.

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Presentations on alternative dispute resolution and litigation topics to, among others, American Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, Tennessee Judicial Conference, University of Tennessee, World Law Group.

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Board Member, Chair - Global Network Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Member, Society of International Business Fellows.

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Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

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Listed as Best Lawyer since 2001

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Listed as Georgia Super Lawyer

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Facilitator/coach, Central Eurasian Leadership Academy. Istanbul, 2007 – 2012.

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Facilitator/coach, Middle Eastern Leadership Academy, Amman, 2011

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2010 – present. Dean’s Advisory Council, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

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2012 – present. Board of Visitors – Georgia State University College of Law

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2012 – present. International Business Advisory Board University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration

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Over 30 years experience in dispute resolution including system design, Commission Chair and service as neutral in major cases.

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Over 38 years experience as practicing lawyer including counseling and advocacy on domestic and international matters.

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DISPUTE RESOLUTION WORK Committees Commissions, etc: •

Founding Board Member - Atlanta International Arbitration Society. 2011 - present.

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Chair - Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Practice Section of World Law Group (network of 49 law firms in 40 countries). 2006 - 09.

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Chair - Tennessee Bar Association Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. 1990 – 93.

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Chair - Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution. 1993 – 95.

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Chair - Tennessee Supreme Court Standing Commission on ADR. 1996 – 99.

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Chair - Advisory Group for the Reduction of Cost and Delay in Civil Litigation U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee [created under 1990 Civil Justice Reform Act]. 1991 – 95.

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Co-Chair – American Bar Association Section of Litigation Committee on ADR. 1999 – 2001.

Approved Neutral: •

International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. 1994.

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American Arbitration Association 1983 – present.

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. 1994 – present.

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United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. 1994 – present.

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Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31. 1996 – present.

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National Association of Securities Dealers (No longer active.)

Training as neutral: •

Chartered Institute of Arbitration Accelerated Route to Fellowship

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Florida Circuit Court Mediation Training.

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Tennessee Rule 31.

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Negotiation Workshop - Harvard Law School.

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Advanced Negotiation Workshop – Harvard Law School.

Special recognition: •

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, 2012

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Public Service in Mediation Award – Coalition for Mediation Awareness in Tennessee - 2011

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Accepted award from American College of Trial Mediators for most improved state ADR program – 1998.

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Selected as one of 33 practicing lawyers to attend the National ADR Conference for Federal Judges at the Harvard Law School – 1993.

Protocol Design: •

Chaired Tennessee Supreme Court Commission drafting statewide court-annexed ADR protocol (codified as Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31).

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Participated in design of court-annexed protocols for U.S. District Courts for Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee.

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Lead counsel in design of “Solutions” employment dispute protocol for Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

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Lead counsel in design of protocol for big four accounting firm.

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Drafted numerous dispute resolution protocols and clauses for use in domestic and crossborder transactions.

Experience as neutral: •

Arbitrations have included disputes involving construction of a major metropolitan subway system, a regional securities house, and a regional bank.

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Mediations have included construction, securities, federal Employee Retirement Income Security matters, franchise, accounting and other matters.

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Special Master in major multi-party cases including: •

Champion International class action litigation [Described at 1994 Fed. App. 0329P (6th Cir.)];

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Medicare secondary payment litigation [Described at 740 F. Supp. 492];

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Unisys Ground Water Contamination Claims [Described at 11 Alternatives 81];

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Selox Shareholder “Squeeze-Out” Litigation [Not reported.]

FOUNDATIONS AND CHARITIES •

Board member and Chair, Global Network Foundation.

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Principal fund raiser for foundation project in support of Mobile Creches, New Delhi-based charity providing educational services to migrant children in India. (Work recognized by award of 2006 Society of International Business Fellows Newcomers Award.)

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Facilitator at 2007-2012 Central Eurasian Leadership Academies, Koc University, Istanbul Turkey.

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Facilitator at 2011 Middle Eastern Leadership Academy, Amman, Jordan.

LEGAL EXPERIENCE Bar admissions:

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Tennessee (all state courts - October 18, 1975

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Georgia (all state courts - June 21, 1977)

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U.S. District Courts for Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee

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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Admissions pro hac vice: •

Federal and/or state courts in Alabama, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin.

Representative legal experience •

Counseling for domestic and foreign clients regarding arbitration, litigation and jurisdictional matters implicating the laws of inter alia: Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and Spain.

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Counseling for domestic and foreign clients in a range of matters including securities issues, construction, employment, intellectual property and products liability.

Representative litigation experience: •

Lead counsel in 55 plaintiff securities case pending simultaneously in three states against Canadian insurer.

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Lead counsel in class litigation of employment claims against publicly-traded consumer products company in five states. [Only one of these matters has been reported; see 153 rd Ohio App. 3 764, 2003.]

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Lead counsel for a European industrial gas producer in mass tort claim by 350 plaintiffs. [Not reported]

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Lead counsel for plaintiffs in class litigation to require public improvements in Bledsoe County, Tennessee. [Not reported]

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Lead counsel in derivative litigation alleging securities claims against an Atlanta area public company. [Not reported]

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Lead counsel for wireless telephone operator charged with Fifth and Fourteen Amendment violations. [See report at 00-5399 (6th Cir. 2001)].

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Oral advocate on appeal for workers compensation insurers in putative class litigation under state anti-trust statute [See report at 13 S.W. 3d 365 (1999)].

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Lead counsel obtaining affirmation of a district court interpretation of ERISA issue not previously been addressed at the Court of Appeals level, [See reports at 113 F.3rd 1450 (6th Cir. 1997) and 187 F. 3rd 636 (6th Cir. 1999)].

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Lead counsel in ERISA case involving stem cell rescue procedure. [See report at 152 F. 3rd 514 (6th Cir. 1998)].

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Lead counsel for big four accounting firm in class action employment litigation. [See report at 168 F.R.D. 221 (M.D. Tenn. 1996)].

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Lead counsel in consumer protection act litigation [See report at 35 F.Supp. 2d 1052 (E.D. Tenn. 1999)].

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Lead counsel in technology licensing case [See report at 896 F.Supp. 751 (E.D.Tn. 1995)].

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Lead counsel in trademark litigation against English public company. [See reports at 744 F. Supp. 1289, 744 F. Supp. 1297 and 752 F. Supp. 1223, (D. Del. 1990)].

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Lead counsel defense of a products liability action against an industrial gas supplier. [See report at 956 F.2d 1319 (6th Cir. 1992)].

PUBLICATIONS, COMMENTARY AND EDITORIAL WORK Published work . • General Editor - International Civil Procedure [text comparing civil and arbitration procedures in over 30 countries and 34 jurisdictions] Kluwer Law International 2003. •

Editor - "Alternatives to Litigation" The Corporate Litigator, American Bar Association 1989.

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Co-Author with Glenn Hendrix - “International Arbitration: Southern Style.” Tennessee Bar Journal, Sept. 2012

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Author – “It’s not just the money: How do you define a successful settlement?”, Business Law Today, Jan./Feb. 2005.

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Author - "Preparing for Mediation: An Advocate's Checklist," Tennessee Bar Journal, March/April 1996.

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Author - "A Brief Survey of Court-Annexed ADR: Where We Are & Where We Are Going," Tennessee Bar Journal, January/February 1994 (which in 1994 won the Justice Joe Henry Award for the best Tennessee Bar Journal article).

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Author - "The Business Lawyer as Dispute Resolver: Give peace a chance with ADR," Business Law Today, Sept./Oct. 1992.

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Co-Author - “Comment: Civil Disabilities Attaching upon Criminal Conviction” 27 Ala.L.Rev. 126 (1975).

Editorial boards: •

Editorial Board - Business Law Today 1997 – 2002.

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Editorial Board - Alabama Law Review, 1974-75.

Speaking Engagements: •

Speaker on corporate social responsibility – World Law Group, Oslo, Norway - June 2007.

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Guest lecturer on class action litigation - Duke University. - 2005 – 2006.

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Guest lecturer on class action litigation - University of Memphis Law School - 2006.

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Guest lecturer on alternative dispute resolution - University of Tennessee College of Law – 1999.

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Adjunct faculty University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, (courses in American Legal Environment) - 1979 – 1981.

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Speaker on numerous topics including dispute resolution, advocacy, and counseling at national and local programs sponsored by, among others: American Bar Association, Federal Judicial Center, Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, Defense Research Institute, American Public Power Association, Credit Union National Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Tennessee Judicial Conference and Atlanta International Arbitration Society.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Professional recognitions: •

Grayfred Gray Public Service in Mediation Award – 2011.

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BTI Client Service All-Star - 2011.

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Best Lawyers in America since 2001.

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Who’s Who – International Employment Lawyers.

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Georgia Super Lawyers

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Master - Ray Brock Chapter of the American Inns of Court.

Professional associations •

Member - American Bar Association.

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Member - Georgia State Bar.

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Member - Tennessee Bar Association.

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Member – Chattanooga Bar Association.

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Fellow – American Bar Foundation.

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Fellow - Tennessee Bar Foundation.

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Fellow - Chattanooga Bar Foundation.

Pro bono matters •

As President of the Chattanooga Bar Association in 1988 – 89 oversaw creation of the association's first comprehensive pro bono program for lawyers, a program which has now provided lawyers, without charge, to several thousand indigent litigants.

WORK HISTORY •

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Partner and member - Miller & Martin, PLLC – Chattanooga, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia 1994 to 2014 (Chair of the Litigation Department from 1998 to 2003).

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Shareholder - Grant, Konvalinka & Grubbs, PC - Chattanooga, Tennessee 1981 – 94.

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Partner - Strang, Fletcher, Carriger, Walker, Hodge & Smith – Chattanooga, Tennessee 1980 – 81.

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Associate - Strang, Fletcher, Carriger, Walker, Hodge & Smith – Chattanooga, Tennessee 1975 – 80.

CIVIC, FOUNDATION AND COMMUNITY WORK Chair – Global Network Foundation. 2012-2013 (Board member - 2006 – present.) Member – Board of Directors - Society of International Business Fellows. 2012 – present. Member – Board of Visitors – Georgia State College of Law Member - International Business Advisory Board - Culverhouse (University of Alabama) College of Commerce and Business Administration. 2012 – present. Member – Board of Visitors – Georgia State University College of Law. 2012 – present. Member – Dean’s Advisory Council – Rollins (Emory University) School of Public Health. 2010 – present. Member - Chancellor's Roundtable. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. 1994-97. Senior Warden St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 1994-95. General counsel - Hamilton County Metro Charter Study Commission. 1983-84. General counsel - Urban League of Chattanooga. 1984-85. Previous service on various boards including Boys’ Club, American Heart Association, Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, Lookout Rowing Club and Kiwanis Club. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND J.D. University of Alabama Law School – 1975. Member and Outstanding Senior Editor – Alabama Law Review Member - Bench & Bar Honor Society, Honor Court. B.A. University of Mississippi (triple major in History, English and Political Science).

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