Lawrence Schaner
Schaner Dispute Resolution LLC
150 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 2800
Chicago, Illinois 60601
United States of America
Partner and Co-Chair of International Arbitration Practice, Jenner & Block LLP (1988-2017); Law Clerk, Hon. Cecil F. Poole, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1986-1987.
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member, ICC Commission on Arbitration; Member, ICC Task Force on Emergency Arbitrator Proceedings; Midwestern Regional Chair, ICC USA; Member, LCIA North American Users’ Council (former Councillor); Member, International Bar Association (IBA) (Arbitration Committee Vice-Chair 2012-2013; Secretary 2010-2011; Newsletter Editor, Website Editor and Publications Officer 2008-2009); Advisory Board, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA); Editorial Board, Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação; Member, American Bar Association (ABA); Member, Congress of Fellows, Center for International Legal Studies (CILS); Member, Chicago Bar Association (CBA); Member, Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA); Member, New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC).
American Arbitration Association (AAA), British Columbia Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (BCICAC), British Virgin Islands International Arbitration Centre (BVI IAC), Centre for Arbitration and Consultancy Development (CACD), Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (CIICA), Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association (CIDRA), CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), Kigali International Arbitration Centre (KIAC), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA), Pacific International Arbitration Centre (PIAC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC).
Arbitrator in ICC, ICDR, AAA, CPR, JAMS, KCAB, SCC, and UNCITRAL rules cases, including appointments as chair, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and emergency arbitrator. Counsel in international and domestic arbitration cases under many rules and in court proceedings relating to arbitration.
Editor, Dispute Resolution International (since 2013); Co-Editor, International Arbitration in the United States (Wolters Kluwer 2018); “Third-Party Funding in the State of Illinois,” in Handbook on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration (Juris 2018); Co-Editor, IBA Arbitration Guide (2012-2017); “United States of America,” in Commercial Litigation Jurisdictional Comparisons, The European Lawyer Reference Series, 2011; “The Rise of 3rd Party Litigation Funding,” Law360, January 21, 2011; “USA,” in The International Comparative Guide to International Arbitration 2010; “Due Process in International Arbitration: Anything Goes?,” Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação, July-September 2009; “Another Good Year for the Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards in the U.S.,” Dispute Resolution Journal, May-July 2008; “U.S. Discovery in Aid of International Arbitration and Litigation: The Expanded Role of 28 U.S.C. § 1782,” in Austrian Arbitration Yearbook, 2008; “Drafting Arbitration Clauses,” in International Arbitration (Practicing Law Institute 2008); “Legal Privilege in the United States,” in Privilege and Confidentiality: An International Handbook (IBA 2006).