About

Robert W. Berliner, Jr., is a practicing mediator and an accomplished attorney, and has been a principal in many real estate and other business ventures. As an attorney, he has represented businesses of all types and sizes, including manufacturers, distribution companies, real estate developers and investors, contractors, financial institutions, and retailers. He has been a senior officer and general counsel of Jupiter Industries, Inc., a family-owned conglomerate with over $1 billion in revenues, and a partner and general counsel of Jupiter Realty Corporation, a real estate company with interests in office buildings, shopping centers, apartment buildings and hotels all over the country.

Bob is a highly respected educator and is a sought-after consultant and expert witness on real estate matters. With more than 30 years of legal and business experience, he brings an exceptional array of skills and insights to the mediation process, his law clients and the real estate marketplace.

Learn more about his credentials and about his mediation, legal and real estate expertise.

Professional Activites

• Vice President and Secretary of the Illinois Chapter of the Association of Attorney-Mediators
• Court-certified mediator for the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, in the Chancery Division’s Mediation Program and Law Division’s Court-Annexed Major Case Civil Mediation Program
• Court-certified mediator for Civil Division, Circuit Court of the 12th Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois
• Adjunct Professor at the Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology (Real Estate Investment)
• Lecturer and panelist at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (Legal Issues in Real Estate)
• Member of the American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association and Chicago Bar Association

Education and Background

• Mediation Training
  • DePaul University College of Law, Center for Dispute Resolution, Certificate of Completion in Mediation, 40-hour course in Basic Mediation
  • Association of Attorney-Mediators, Advanced Mediation Training, “Avoiding the Line in the Sand,” San Antonio, Texas
  • Association of Attorney-Mediators, “Portmanteau: Creating New Approaches to Mediation”, St. Louis, March 2010
• Harvard Law School, J.D. magna cum laude
• Harvard College, A. B. magna cum laude
• United States Navy: Lieutenant, Supply Corps, USNR. Supply Officer on a nuclear-powered Polaris missile submarine.