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Edward J. Zulkey serves as General Counsel Emeritus and Senior Counsel of Baker & McKenzie International. He has been at Baker & McKenzie for his entire career. After having been a litigator in the firm’s Chicago office since 1973 and a Partner since 1980, he became the firm’s first General Counsel in 1994. He still spends a portion of his time practicing on behalf of firm clients focusing on the areas of Insurance, Risk Management, Professional Liability, Partnership Law, Employment Disputes and Law Firm Governance. Mr. Zulkey advises insurers, policyholders and self-insureds in connection with managing their financial risk issues, often on a multi-national basis. He also has a significant practice in analysis of professional liability issues and partnership/fiduciary disputes.
Mr. Zulkey has served as an AAA neutral mediator in ten cases; including two employment contract disputes, one personal injury case and seven insurance coverage disputes: one involving the airline industry; one involving an environmental issue; one involving the pharmaceutical industry; and four involving the insurance industry. Mr. Zulkey maintains an approximately 90% settlement rate.
As an advocate, Mr. Zulkey has participated in 25-30 mediations in major cases which, based on his client's insurance attachment point, exceed $35 million in value. Mediations were conducted in three types of cases: environmental, catastrophic events (e.g. explosion) and D&O. Mr. Zulkey’s advocacy experience includes multi-party mediations.
As a principal in his Firm, Mr. Zulkey has handled 4-6 external employment issue mediations and approximately 20 relating to professional liability. Mr. Zulkey has acted as mediator in three cases: two personal injury and one coverage, but has also mediated many internal disputes involving employees and partners.
Mr. Zulkey is listed in Euromoney Legal Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers, Illinois Super Lawyers for seven years as well as Naifeh and Smith’s The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law and Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants for the last 17 consecutive years.
$725 Per Hour. Hourly rate includes study time (document review and preparation). No cancellation fee. No charge for travel time.
American Arbitration Association (Neutral); Hildebrandt Institute Law Firm General Counsel Roundtable (Founding Member); Outstanding Lawyers of America (Member); Leading Lawyers Network (Member); Society of Trial Lawyers (Member); International Association of Defense Counsel (Member/Prior Chair of various committees); American Bar Association – Business Insurance and Litigation Sections (Member); Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (Member)
The following have experienced Edward J. Zulkey as a mediator and are willing to be contacted for a reference:
Jill B. Berkeley berkeleyj@howrey.com, (312) 846-5675
Robert Marc Chemers rchemers@pretzel-stouffer.com, (312) 578-7548
Lawrence R. Smith lsmith@salawus.com, (312) 894-3254
Mr. Zulkey is a Court-Certified Mediator, Circuit Court of Cook County Court Annexed Major Case Civil Mediation Program. In 2006, Mr. Zulkey completed the Center for Dispute Resolution-Mediation Training offered by DePaul University.
Mr. Zulkey received his JD degree, with honors, from the University of Illinois in 1973 where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, was a “Notes and Comments” Editor of the Law Forum, and has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate. He received his BA degree from Northwestern University in 1970.
Mr. Zulkey serves as an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law in its clinical trial advocacy program.
Author: Litigating Insurance Disputes. Published by Juris Publishing, Inc., Copyright 1993, 1994 (Tenth Release 2013).
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