Career Highlights: Robert McGuiness (ret.), is a neutral with Signature Resolution who handles a diverse range of matters. He served as supervising judge of both a criminal and civil courthouse and spent nearly 10 years as an active civil trial judge. During the last four years of his judicial career, McGuiness was the supervising judge of the Alameda County Superior Court's Civil Litigation Settlement Unit, where he conducted hundreds of settlement conferences. As a lawyer and judge, he tried hundreds of civil cases, resulting in 13 published opinions.
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Retired judge Robert D. McGuiness learned a great deal about mediation while watching his father settle cases.
"He was often better prepared than the lawyers, and he certainly knew how to deal with people - he was a master at that," McGuiness said about his father, Judge William J. McGuiness, who served for 26 years on the Alameda County Superior Court.
McGuiness added that his father also regularly asked questions while working to settle disputes ... (continued)
