Allen is a three-time Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year" (Birmingham), in Arbitration (2019) and Mediation (2017 and 2024).
Allen Schreiber
J. Allen Schreiber
BIRMINGHAM ARBITRATOR AND MEDIATOR
In resolving their clients’ disputes, lawyers rely on Allen Schreiber’s peer-recognized insight and understanding of complex matters, honed during a legal career spanning 35 years as a litigator and over 25 years in alternative dispute resolution, during which he has mediated over 2,500 disputes.
See also: Allen Schreiber's experience in Personal Injury, Employment, and Business disputes
Calendar Your Next Mediation or Arbitration
Allen's coordinator, Carol Waldrop, will contact you on receipt of your Appointment Request.
Does your preferred date appear to be booked? Please contact Carol at 855-754-8807 or by email to see whether we can accommodate your schedule.
Fee Schedule
$6,000 full day
$600 per hour for study time
Cancellation penalties may apply
With experience firmly rooted in a distinguished litigation career, since 1995 Allen Schreiber has mediated – and, more recently, arbitrated – disputes involving:
- business and breach of contract matters
- employment and wage-and-hour law
- negligence, personal injury, wrongful death, and products liability claims
- professional liability claims
- commercial and municipal liability
- first-party insurance claims - commercial and residential.
His value and credibility as a neutral are rooted in his extensive and balanced trial experience, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in all of Alabama’s federal, state trial and appellate courts.
On the defense side, Allen is a former member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC). In 1988, he founded an Alabama law firm that endures as one of the state’s top insurance defense firms. He represented AIG for 18 years. He has handled a wide variety of high-profile insurance matters, including director and officer liability, professional liability, excess policies, and disputes involving trucking, aviation, employment, and coverage.
Examples of his plaintiff experience include serving as co-lead counsel in a nationwide case, Morgan v. Family Dollar, which went to the U.S. Supreme Court and resulted in a final resolution of $49 million. He was also co-lead counsel in litigation involving a nationwide case against Dollar General, which was also resolved by way of settlement. In 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois approved the resolution of a $28 million result against Sturm Foods in a multi-state class action under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
In 1995, Allen began mediating matters involving business disputes (including breach of contract), malpractice, products liability, wrongful death, personal injury, fraud, negligence, health and general commercial liability, aviation, trucking, municipal liability, education, employment disputes (including wage and hour matters), and first-party insurance disputes - both commercial and residential - including hurricane claims and property-and-casualty liability claims.
Allen has been included on the American Arbitration Association’s panels for consumer, employment and commercial arbitrations. He is a Best Lawyers® and Super Lawyers honoree for alternative dispute resolution, and he holds the Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Rating.
Honors and Awards
Lawyer of the Year (Birmingham), Mediation, The Best Lawyers in America® , 2017 and 2024
Lawyer of the Year (Birmingham), Arbitration, The Best Lawyers in America, 2019
The Best Lawyers in America
(Arbitration, Mediation),
2012-present
Super Lawyers (Alternative Dispute Resolution), 2010-2012, 2014-present
AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell®
ADR Fellowships and Affiliations
Founding Diplomat, National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
Fellow, American College of Civil Trial Mediators: Past President; Past Executive Board Member
American Arbitration Association: Commercial Panel, Employment Panel, Consumer Panel
Alabama Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution: Commissioner by Appointment of the Senate Pro Tem, 2022-2025
Alabama State Bar Dispute Resolution Section: Vice President, 2023-2024; Secretary, 2022-2023; Treasurer, 2021-2022
Founding Fellow, Alabama Academy of Attorney Mediators
Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution
Recent Presentations
"Litigating Auto Accident Cases" (webinar co-presenter), CLE Alabama and the University of Alabama School of Law, October 25, 2023
"Alternative Dispute Resolution" (webinar), Birmingham Bar Association, October 20, 2023
"I'm Just a Mediator: What Could Go Wrong?" Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution, September 27, 2023
"Anchoring in Mediation: Mediating in the Post-COVID Era" (CLE webinar co-presenter), Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution, May 18, 2023
"Mediation: Mistakes to Avoid - Beginning to End" (CLE webinar co-presenter), Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, April 18, 2023
“Bracketology” (CLE webinar co-presenter), Alabama State Bar, November 2022
"Mistakes to Avoid from Beginning to End in ADR/Mediation" (CLE webinar co-presenter), Birmingham Bar Association, October 28, 2022 | Member comments
“Mediator Mistakes: What Every Mediator Should Avoid” (CLE webinar co-presenter), Birmingham Bar Association, November 16, 2021
"How to Get the Best Experience from Online Mediation" (webinar co-presenter), Alabama State Bar Association (Dispute Resolution Section) and Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution, September 17, 2020 | Download PowerPoint
Professional Memberships
Alabama State Bar
Virginia Bar Association
Birmingham Bar Association
Bar and Court Admissions
Alabama, 1984
Virginia, 2010
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Education
J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 1984
B.A., Vanderbilt University, 1981
Community Leadership
Laps for Cystic Fibrosis: Past President
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Alabama Chapter: Past President
An Environment Conducive to Settlement
While we function effectively via Zoom or other online settings, our conference rooms provide a peaceful, comfortable setting for your in-person mediation or arbitration. Take a virtual tour.
