Robert H. Alsdorf's work as a Special Master, arbitrator, and mediator has involved him in a wide range of complex cases relating to securities, unfair trade practices, international commercial contracts, admiralty, endangered species, clean water, hazardous waste and clean-up, health care, hospitality, products liability, business and professional partnership break-ups, software ownership and licensing, insurance and re-insurance, real estate, professional malpractice and numerous other disputes, including those valued into nine figures.

• Principal, Alsdorf Dispute Resolution (current)
• Distinguished Jurist in Residence, Seattle University School of Law (current)
• Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (2005-2008)
• Judge, Superior Court for the State of Washington (1990-2005)
• President and founding partner, Armstrong Alsdorf Bradbury & Maier, PC (1979-1990)
• Associate, Culp Dwyer Guterson & Grader (1975-79)
• Honors Law Graduate and Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice (1973-75)

• Named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Alternative Dispute Resolution (Woodward/White)
  
• Listed as “Super Lawyer,” as one of “Top 100 Washington Super Lawyers,” and as one of "Top 10 Alternative Dispute Resolution Attorneys" (Washington Law & Politics)
  
• “AV” Rating by Martindale-Hubbell
  
• Outstanding Judge Award, King County Bar Association, 2002; Judge of the Year, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, 2001; Judge of the Year, American Board of Trial Advocates, Washington Chapter, 2000; Vanguard Award, Washington Women Lawyers, 2000
  
• Out of fifty-one judges, ranked first in every category analyzed by members of the King County Bar Association, 2004 (decision-making, demeanor, efficiency, impartiality, overall)

• Over more than two decades, has mediated, arbitrated and presided over complex commercial, environmental and other protracted or difficult disputes valued into nine figures
• As Chief Civil Judge and as Chief Asbestos Judge, supervised the preparation, trial and settlement of hundreds of product liability cases
• Served on Executive Committee and as Member of the National Mass Tort Litigation Committee, appointed by the National Conference of State Court Chief Justices
• As trial attorney, litigated and settled antitrust and other complex commercial cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts

• Federal Bar Association: CR 39.1 Neutral Training, Panelist, 2008
• AAA: Arbitrator II Training, 2006; Chairing an Arbitration Panel, 2006; Arbitrator I Training, 2005
• ABA: Section of Dispute Resolution, Golden State of ADR, 2005
• JAMS Institute: Mediating the Complex Case, 2004
• Washington State Bar Association: Arbitrator & Mediator Skills Training, Panelist, 1997
• Harvard Law School: Negotiation Workshop, 1986

• United States Supreme Court, Ninth and Tenth Circuits of U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, Eastern and Western Districts of Washington, State of Washington

• AAA Commercial Arbitrator; ADR Roundtable; American Law Institute; Inns of Court, Seattle Chapter; Superior Court Judges Association; Washington State Bar Association; King County Bar Association; Federal Bar Association; American Bar Association; American Judicature Society

• J.D., Yale Law School, and M.A. (Am. Hist.), Yale Hall of Graduate Studies, 1973
• B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in History, Carleton College, 1967