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Mediation Panel
David F. Yates

David F. Yates

Education

• United States Arbitration & Mediation Midwest, Transitional Training, 2003
• The Alliance for Education in Dispute Resolution, 2002
• University of Missouri School of Law, Civil Mediator Training
• University of Missouri School of Law, J.D. 1969
• Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A. 1966


Accomplishments

Mr. Yates started his career with the National Labor Relations Board in St. Louis. He has over three decades of experience representing management in a wide range of industries before Federal and State courts, the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, State and Local administrative agencies, and in collective bargaining negotiations. Mr. Yates also has extensive experience representing management’s interests under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. An instrument rated multiengine pilot, David is also panel counsel for the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association. Mr. Yates has participated in numerous mediations. He is also active in a number of professional, civic, religious, and social organizations.

Affiliations

• Missouri Bar
• Illinois Bar Association
• American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section)
• Bar Association for the Central and Southern Federal Districts of Illinois
• The Seventh & Eighth Circuit Bar Associations
• BAMSL (Labor Law Section)
• Lawyer Pilots Bar Association
• Who’s Who in America
• “The Best Lawyers in America”
• Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers
• Industrial Relations Research Association
• St. Louis Chapter
• FAA Licensed Pilot