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Peter K. Rundle Attorney ~ Arbitrator

Introduction Peter Rundle is an attorney-at-law and arbitrator. Mr. Rundle serves on the American

Arbitration Association’s National Roster of Arbitrators, and is a member of the AAA’s

Commercial and Real Estate Large, Complex Case (LCC) Panels. He is a member of

the State Bar of California, where he is admitted before all state and federal courts. Mr.

Rundle obtained degrees from the University of California at Irvine (B.A., Classics, cum

laude, Phi Beta Kappa 1982) and the University of California, Hastings College of the

Law (J.D. 1985).

Practice Mr. Rundle serves as counsel in litigation and trial proceedings, and acts as both counsel

and arbitrator in domestic and international disputes. Mr. Rundle’s experience and

expertise spans broad practice areas, including: business and commercial transactions;

banking, lending and financial products; construction disputes; import / export matters;

commodity purchase / sale / trading; manufacturing; technology; product defect /

reliability / warranty; corporate governance; partnership and joint ventures; and, real

estate matters (commercial leasing, finance, acquisition / disposition, title).

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Prior to leaving the firm in 2003, Mr. Rundle served as co-chair of Arter & Hadden LLP’s

national alternative dispute resolution practice. Upon leaving the firm, Mr. Rundle

established a boutique practice emphasizing arbitration, litigation and trial work, while at

the same time providing his clients with ongoing risk management and dispute

avoidance counseling.

Experience For more than 30 years, Mr. Rundle has represented domestic and international clients

in a wide array of litigation and arbitration matters. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Rundle’s

practice has expanded to include service as a neutral arbitrator. Disputes have involved:

• Commercial, Business, Corporate, Joint Venture, Partnership

• Construction (Performance, Scope, Conditions, Delay) [Kajima Engineering &

Construction, Inc. vs. City of Los Angeles (2002) 95 Cal.App.4th 923, Badger

Avenue Railway Bridge replacement – Arter & Hadden team represented Port of

Los Angeles; MW Erectors, Inc. vs. Niederhauser Ornamental and Metal Works

Co., Inc. (2005) 36 Cal.4th 412 – Arter & Hadden team represented Niederhauser;

Mr. Rundle authored Niederhauser’s successful summary judgment motion]

• Banking, Lending, Financial Products

• Trade Secrets, Unfair Competition, Business Torts

• Import / Export, Commodities

• Federal Trade Commission Litigation

• Overseas Manufacturing / Master Service Agreements (ICC)

• Original Equipment & Original Design Manufacturing

• Product Warranty / Epidemic Failure / Product Liability (CPR Institute, New York)

• Corporate Governance, Fiduciary Duty, Internal Investigations, Fraud

• Real Estate Development, Finance, Management, Acquisition / Disposition (AAA)

• Technology (Licensing, Manufacturing, Product Development)

• Finance, Investment, Securitization (AAA)

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Professional Associations / Memberships

State Bar of California; Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Riverside County Bar

Associations; Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL); American Arbitration

Association (AAA).

Recent ADR Presentations

“Arbitration Awards: Process, Content & Challenges,” (April 25, 2017); “Best Arbitrator

Management Practices re: Damage and Remedy Claims,” (October 25, 2016); “Crafting

Arbitration Awards to Preserve Confidentiality,” (September 29, 2015); “The Arbitrator’s

Mandate: To Follow the Law, or To Do Justice and Equity?” (April 28, 2015).

ADR Training & Seminars

AAA ADR Case Law Update, 2016; AAA Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration, 2016;

AAA Roundtable - Arbitration Panels, 2015; Pepperdine University School of Law,

Strauss Institute, “Dispute Resolution in the Korean Community,” 2015; ICC Institute

Masterclass for Arbitrators, Singapore, January 2014; AAA/ICDR Neutrals Conference,

Scottsdale, AZ, 2012; ICDR Int’l Symposia in Advanced Case Management Issues,

2012; Atlanta Int’l Arbitration Society (ATLAS) Inaugural Conference, “The U.S. and its

Place in the Int’l Arbitration System of the 21st Century – Trendsetter, Outlier or One in a

Crowd,” Atlanta, 2012; ICC Asia Pacific Conference, “East Meets West: Evolving Issues

in Int’l Arbitration in the Asia Pacific Region,” San Francisco, 2010 [Arbitrating with State

Parties, Multi-Party Arbitration, Evidence & Discovery in Int’l Arbitration, The Role of

Legal Culture in Int’l Arbitration, Arbitrating IP Disputes in the Asia-Pacific Region,

Emerging Trends in Int’l Arbitration in China]; AAA/ICDR Neutrals Conference,

Coronado, CA, 2009 [Int’l Awards: Remedies, Damages & Interest; Chairing the

AAA/ICDR Int’l Arbitral Tribunal; Managing the ICDR Guidelines on Information

Exchange]; American Bar Association, Conference on Dispute Resolution, New York,

2009; LCIA Conference, “Advocacy and Cultural Conflict in Int’l Arbitration,” London,

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2002; CPR Winter Seminar/Meeting, New York, 2002; American Arbitration Association,

Training and Continuing Arbitrator Education, 1998 – present.

Appointments

Settlement Officer, U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1999 – 2002;

Arbitrator, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, 2004 – 2012; Special

Master, Orange County Superior Court; Special Master, California Penal Code, Section

1524 Proceedings; AAA Panel of Commercial Arbitrators; CPR Panel of Commercial

Arbitrators (2002 – 2015); Member, Technical Committee, First International Conference

on Reliability Systems Engineering & 2015 Prognostics and System Health Management

Conference - Beijing (2015 ICRSE & PHM-Beijing); Member, Int’l Advisory Board,

Conference on Asian Green Electronics, “Design for Manufacturability and Reliability,”

Shanghai (2005).

Speaking Engagements

Speaker & Panelist, Whittier Law School’s 27th Annual Int’l Arbitration Law Symposium,

“Int’l Arbitration: Arbitration Clauses, Arbitrator Selection & Arbitration Advocacy,” April

2010; Guest Lecturer, University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering,

2001 – present (Reliability, Prognostics & Health System Management, Warranty,

Supply Chain, and related legal issues); Keynote Speaker, Int’l IEEE Conferences,

“Prognostics & System Health Management,” National University of Defense

Technology, Zhangjiajie, PRC, 2014, Beihang University, Beijing, 2012 & University of

Macau, 2010; Speaker & Panelist, Int’l IEEE Conference, “Business of Electronic

Product Reliability and Liability,” Hong Kong and Shenzhen, 2003; Speaker & Panelist,

Advanced Course of Study: Strategies for Conducting Successful Contractual

Arbitrations,” Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), 2001.

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Publications

Challenges in the Qualification of Electronic Components and Systems, IEEE

Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 2013);

Prognostics and Health Management’s Warranty Benefits, Seventh Annual Warranty

Chain Management Conference, San Diego, California (March 2011); Why Does PHM

Matter? Nvidia’s GPU Problems Reviewed (ISBN 978-1-4244-4756-5); Real Estate

Fraud: Detection & Prevention, Los Angeles Business Journal (2000); The Need for

Root Cause Failure Analysis, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on the Business of

Electronic Product Reliability and Liability (2003).

Interests Among his other interests, Mr. Rundle enjoys time spent outdoors – “away from it all,”

especially in the mountains.

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Contact Peter K. Rundle, Esq. Rundle Law Corporation, APC 38 Corporate Park Irvine, California 92606-5105 USA Telephone: +1-949-476-5088 Peter@RundleLawCorp.com