Robert L. Arrington

Bob Arrington's practice includes employment law and litigation, commercial litigation, including bankruptcy (creditor practice only), probate litigation, arbitration, and mediation.Arrington is a member of the American Arbitration Association's Rosters of Neutrals for arbitration and mediation of commercial and employment disputes and for non binding arbitration. He has been named as a panel member of the Banking, Accounting and Financial Services, Employment and Tennessee Distinguished Panels of Neutrals with the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). He has been approved as a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Dispute Resolution Arbitrator. He is listed with the Tennessee Supreme Court's Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution as a Rule 31 General Civil Mediator. He is also a member of the panel of court approved arbitrators and mediators for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Mr. Arrington is AV-rated in Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating awarded by this most widely-used directory of lawyers.

He chairs the firm's section on alternative dispute resolution and is a member of the employment and commercial litigation practice groups.

• JD, University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, 1975
• BA in Journalism (Honors in Writing), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1972

• American Bar Association, member (sections on Labor & Employment, Litigation, and Alternative Dispute Resolution)
• Tennessee Bar Association, member (sections on Bankruptcy, Dispute Resolution, Litigation and Employment)
• Kingsport Bar Association, member (past president)
• Federal Bar Association
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators

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