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Oct. 17, 2025

Building Trust

Neutral Robert Sunderland says telling people things they don't want to hear is an art.

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Building Trust

Signature Resolution / Sunderland McCutchan LLP
Construction, real estate, personal injury, commercial, elder abuse 

Signature Resolution neutral Robert J. Sunderland has held his general contractor's license for more than three decades.

"I decided to go to law school while I was still building houses," Sunderland said. "I was a contractor basically full time for about nine years. And then I morphed over to being a litigator after I graduated law school."

A 1996 alumni of Southwestern University School of Law, Sunderland said his fascination with con... (continued)

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