Former National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien joins FedArb

March 5, 2024 | Federal Arbitration Inc

March 5, 2024 – FedArb is pleased to announce Ambassador Robert O’Brien has joined its panel. Based in Los Angeles and Utah, he previously served as the National Security Advisor to the President after serving as the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.

He will serve as a mediator and special master, focused on resolving class action, entertainment, intellectual property, environmental, business torts, and complex contractual matters in state and federal courts.

He previously served as the Special Master in several of the largest cases in the Central District of California, including MGA v. Mattel (Barbie v. Bratz), United States v. Standard & Poors and In re Allergan Securities Litigation. Prior to co-founding a firm in 2016, Ambassador O’Brien was the California managing partner of a national AmLaw 200 firm for nearly a decade and, earlier in his career, was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

“FedArb is thrilled to have Ambassador O’Brien join our panel,” said Kennen D. Hagen, FedArb’s president and CEO. “His international stature as a diplomat as well as his legal skills as a mediator, monitor and special master enables him to help parties resolve their toughest disputes.”

In addition to his litigation and ADR practices, Ambassador O’Brien is one of the country’s leading advisors on national security issues. While serving as the NSA, Ambassador O’Brien brought a renewed focus to defense and industrial base issues, orchestrated the historic Abraham Accords in the Middle East, brokered economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo and achieved increased cooperation with America’s allies across the Indo-Pacific. As the Special Presidential Envoy, he coordinated the government’s diplomatic engagements on overseas hostage-related matters and successfully negotiated the release of more than 25 hostages and wrongfully detained Americans.

Ambassador O’Brien received his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles and his J.D. from University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

About FedArb

For almost two decades, leading law firms have used FedArb’s panel of more than 60 former Article III federal judges and 60 distinguished neutrals to successfully mediate and arbitrate hundreds of high profile complex civil cases, typically achieving results more efficiently and cost effectively than through litigation. FedArb’s panelists also work with law firms on internal investigations, mock trials and on corporate monitoring assignments. FedArb provides around-the-clock administrative services and requires its neutrals to honor the parties’ deadlines, saving clients time and money.