STILLWATER, MN, October 25, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to honor Philip Lane Bruner with inclusion in Who's Who in the World. An accomplished listee, Mr. Bruner celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With more than 55 years of professional experience, Philip Lane Bruner is a distinguished authority in the fields of construction law, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution. He is a full-time national and international arbitrator and mediator of major disputes arising out of construction, engineering, energy, infrastructure and related commercial projects throughout the United States and in other countries. As a neutral, Mr. Bruner has resolved hundreds of millions of dollars in claims and disputes pertaining to numerous public and private projects located in the U.S. and elsewhere.
In 2008, after 40 years as a practicing lawyer with Minneapolis law firms, Mr. Bruner joined JAMS as an arbitrator and mediator and as Director of the JAMS Global Engineering and Construction Group, now comprised of 31 neutrals. JAMS is the world's largest privately-held dispute resolution organization, and the Group provides innovative and cost-effective dispute resolution services to the U.S. and international construction industry. Founded in 1979, JAMS handles approximately 18,000 cases on an annual basis.
While in private practices, Mr. Bruner was lead counsel in over 100 arbitrated or litigated construction, infrastructure, energy and other disputes venued in more than 30 U. S. states. Over his career, Mr. Bruner most recently was a senior partner and founding head of the Construction Law Group of international law firm of Faegre and Benson LLP (now Faegre Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP) from 1991 to 2007; a senior partner and later president of Hart and Bruner PA from 1983 to 1990; and, an associate and partner with Briggs and Morgan PC from 1967 to 1983. Mr. Bruner began his career from 1964 to 1967 during the Vietnam War as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Air Force, where he served to the rank of Captain and was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for meritorious service upon his discharge from active duty in 1967.
Mr. Bruner has shared his expertise widely through professional activities, lecturing and writing. He is co-author with Patrick J. O'Connor, Jr. of BRUNER & O'CONNOR ON CONSTRUCTION LAW (ThomsonReuters/West 2002, supplemented annually), the 12 volume, 11,000-page legal treatise regarded as the most authoritative ever written on American law governing construction. Since its publication in 2002, the treatise has been cited as legal authority by more than 500 WestLaw reported judicial opinions authored by U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, U.S. District Courts, state supreme, appellate and trial courts, Federal and state courts of claims, and U.S. commonwealth and territorial courts.
He also founded and taught the first construction law courses offered by the University of Minnesota Law School (2003-2007) and the William Mitchell (now Mitchell Hamline) School of Law (2006-2008). Active for decades in the American Bar Association, he served as Chair of the ABA's 2,500 member Fidelity and Surety Law Committee from 1994 to 1995 and as Chair of the ABA's Forum on Construction Law International Law Division from 1989 to 1991. From 1995 to 1997, he was the Vice Chair of the International Projects Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.
He has written over 50 published articles on construction law and arbitration subjects. As a respected author and lecturer in the field, Mr. Bruner has served as Chair of the Construction Industry Advisory Board for the Thomson Reuters' Construction Contract Law Report since 1992; Co-chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of the American College of Construction Lawyers; and, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Construction Law Review published in London. He is a member by invitation of Britain's Society of Construction Arbitrators, the International Construction Law Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.
Moreover, he has chaired numerous professional conferences and has presented over 400 lectures across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Over his career, Mr. Bruner has spoken in person to international professional audiences in Alnwick (England), Barcelona, Beijing, Calgary, Chicago, Cologne, Halifax, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne (Australia), Miami, New Delhi, New York, Nice, Patiala (India), Princeton, Quebec City, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Warsaw and Washington DC. For excellence in his professional endeavors, Mr. Bruner has been named to Best Lawyers in America since 2003 and listed by the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers as one of the world's leading commercial arbitrators, commercial mediators and construction lawyers.
Mr. Bruner's professional honors include Founding Fellow and past President of The American College of Construction Lawyers; Honorary Fellow of The Canadian College of Construction Lawyers; Fellow of The International Academy of Construction Lawyers; Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London); Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators; Certified Mediator, International Mediation Institute (The Hague); Member of The Institute of Energy Law Panel of Arbitrators; and, Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He received the 2005 Cornerstone Award from the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law presented annually to one lawyer for "exceptional service to the construction industry, to the public and to the legal profession". He also was recognized by Britain's Society of Construction Arbitrators with its 2011 Norman Royce Prize. In light of his many accomplishments, Marquis Who's Who presented him with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Continuing to learn and educate himself in the law throughout his career, Mr. Bruner first embarked on his studies at Princeton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1961. He went on to the University of Michigan Law School from which he graduated in 1964 with a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. He concluded his formal studies while serving in the Air Force by earning a Master of Business Administration degree in 1967 from Syracuse University. Licensed to practice law in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, he has been admitted before the Supreme Court of the United States; the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Federal Circuits; the United States District Courts for the District of Minnesota, the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and the District of North Dakota; the United States Court of Federal Claims; and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
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