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Eric E. Van Loon Esq.

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Practice Areas
Accounting Finance
American Indian Tribal Law
Banking
Business Commercial
Civil Rights
Class Action & Mass Tort
Construction
Employment Law
Energy & Utilities
Engineering & Construction
Entertainment & Sports
Environmental Law
Federal Law
Franchise Distribution Law
Governmental & Public Agency
Health Care
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Personal Injury
Professional Liability
Real Property
Securities
Surety
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Background and Education

Eric E. Van Loon, Esq. brings years of experience to every resolution. A full-time dispute resolution professional since 1989, he has more than 20,000 hours of experience in 42 states and eight countries as a mediator, arbitrator, speaker, and trainer specializing in complex, multi-party, high-stakes disputes and is listed in "Best Lawyers in America" for Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Van Loon has mediated and arbitrated many high-profile matters including the largest electric rate increase in Ohio history, an athletic conference expulsion over bowl game participation, a 60,000-acre New York Indian land claim, a 28-municipality dispute with a New England power plant operator, and the dispute preventing Cleveland's Jacobs Field from being built. He also chaired the three-member U.S. Copyright Office panel, which arbitrated the first royalty rates for internet music streaming.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

  • Arbitration: Solo arbitrator in eight-figure multinational oil company contract dispute; international company termination of U.S. subsidiary CEO. Chaired NFL stadium construction claims panel, multi-hospital claims against major insurer. Panel member in energy company software system claim, joint venture synfuel tax credits allocation, eight-figure environmental cost remediation
  • Business Dissolution: Including an 18-company industrial group with high nine-figure annual sales and a bitter federal court action alleging RICO violations
  • Class Actions: Consumer protection, pharmaceutical, consent decree implementation, toxic tort
  • Commercial: Contract, fraud, reps/warranty, Lanham Act; multiple industries: accounting, energy, entertainment, financial, health, hotel, insurance, manufacturing, securities
  • Construction: Contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, insurance; malls, NFL stadium, highway, industrial plants, mixed-use development, residential
  • Employment: Executive/professional terminations (national and international), exit packages, proprietary data, non-competes, whistle-blowing, employee child abuse
  • Energy: Fuel supply agreements, contaminated property, construction, industry restructuring
  • Entertainment: Film copyright/distribution rights, television program production, Grammy-winner management dispute, music royalties, Hollywood Reporter “power mediator”
  • Environmental: State/federal Superfund sites, remediation cost allocation, water supply and residential contamination, RCRA enforcement, Brownfield development, oil refinery remediation
  • Franchise/Dealer/Manufacturer: Encroachment, termination, chargebacks; automotive, fast food, financial services, health care, hotel, multinational as well as U.S. 
  • Government: Local/state/federal, policy consensus, enforcement, rate-setting, deregulation, negotiated-rulemaking, regulatory entity in receivership, municipality regionalization 
  • Health Care: Hospital-vendor disputes, nursing service, medical devices, insurance processing
  • Insurance: Tort/property/professional coverage, applicability, multi-carriers, reinsurance; workers comp 
  • Intellectual Property: Trade secret: accounting/hospital software; Patent: medical device, consumer products; Trademark: professional athletes, dot-com companies; Copyright; Music Royalties
  • Professional Liability: Accounting financial misstatement, statute of limitations, conflict of interest, legal malpractice, securities dealer
  • Real Estate: Developer workout, commercial lease, land use, zoning, facility siting, regulation
  • Securities: Including broker-investor, investment warranties/representations, accountings
  • Sports: Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field, Conference USA bowl participation, Detroit Lions Ford Field, NCAA Indian logo/nickname enforcement, MVP.com
  • Technology: Software, hardware, information, internet, medical, accounting, health care device, state-of-the-art weapons system
  • Tribal: Land claim, gaming proceeds and management, tribal governance, federal trust mismanagement
  • Available to resolve disputes remotely through a number of videoconferencing options

Representative Matters

  • Internet software system entrepreneur v. investor
  • $80 MM Superfund remediation allocation
  • Massachusetts electric industry restructuring
  • Multi-site health organization software system
  • State-of-the-art military weapons system contract
  • Prestigious television series v. featured personality
  • Post-acquisition reps and warranties/accountings
  • Thirty-party, 60-witness, 1000-exhibit arbitration
  • Six-billion-dollar Safe Drinking Water regulation
  • Developer-major tenant construction disputes
  • Consumer class action settlement/remedy
  • London Underwriter claims on a huge project

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS. 

  • Recognized internationally by Who's Who Legal: Mediation, 2018
  • Best Lawyers in America, 2014-2024
  • Distinguished Fellow, International Association of Mediators
  • Named "Entertainment Industry Power Mediator" by Hollywood Reporter Esquire
  • Elected Town Moderator, Concord, MA
  • Member: ABA Sections on Dispute Resolution, International Law; Association for Conflict Resolution; FDIC, USEPA Superfund Pilot Program, and Library of Congress Copyright Arbitration Royalty panels
  • Board Member: MA Bar Foundation, Schweitzer Fellowship, Jericho Road Project
  • Lecturer on ADR at national/international forums: ABA, American Corporate Counsel Association, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, International Bar Association, World Economic Forum Mid-East North African Qatar Summit, Nigerian International Insurance Summit keynote, and in Canada, Hong Kong, Japan; published in ABA Dispute Resolution magazine

Background and Education

  • Massachusetts Undersecretary, Economic Affairs; Assistant Secretary, Environmental Affairs
  • Seven-year federal litigation legal practice
  • J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1971
  • M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1968
  • A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967

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