Frederick
M. Switzer
Fred joined Danna McKitrick as a principal in 1992, with over 20 years’ prior experience in litigation, labor, employment, and transactional law. His representation includes both individuals and businesses—from small, privately-held to Fortune 500.
Litigation. Fred’s experience includes cases before the U.S. Supreme Court; state, federal, and appellate courts in multiple-states; as well as administrative agencies such as NLRB, EEOC, and the Missouri and Kansas Human Rights Commissions.
His substantial experience as a litigator convinced Fred there are more expeditious, economical, and satisfactory methods of resolving disputes. As such, he focuses his practice on arbitration and alternative dispute resolution as a neutral mediator.
Alternative Dispute Resolution - Mediation. Since 1995, he’s mediated many disputes, both before and after litigation commenced. These include employment, wage and hour, real estate, landlord-tenant, personal injury, and civil dispute cases—by both court and private referral. Cases have been referred by the ADR programs of the US Department of Labor and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Employment and Labor Law. For over 30 years, Fred has represented employers in the resort/hotel, wholesale, retail, manufacturing, grocery, securities, and service industries.
Fred serves as a Disciplinary Hearing Officer for the Supreme Court of Missouri.
Practice
Areas
Mediation and Arbitration; Labor and Employment Law; Litigation; Government Litigation; Anti-trust; Business Law; Estate Planning
Education
LL.M. in Taxation and J.D., Washington University School of Law
B.A., cum laude, University of Notre Dame
Mediator training, University of Missouri School of Law
Advanced Mediator training, Alliance for Education in Dispute
Resolution and Cornell University.
United States Postal Service Transformative Mediation.
Admissions
Missouri
U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri,
Central and Southern Districts of Illinois
U.S. Courts of Appeals, Eighth Circuit and Fourth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Tax Court
U.S. Court of The Armed Forces
ADR Credentials
Panel member: Missouri Supreme Court Rule 17 Mediator Panel; NASD Regulation Board of Arbitrators; USA&M - Midwest; Pinnacle Arbitration and Mediation Services; Alliance for Education in Dispute Resolution, Employment Mediation Panel
Alternative Dispute Resolution Programs, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri; St. Louis County Circuit Court; St. Louis City Circuit Court; and St. Charles County Circuit Court
EEOC ADR Program, St. Louis District
United States Postal Service REDRESS® Mediator
FINRA® arbitrator
Professional Associations
Association for Conflict Resolution
Association of Attorney-Mediators, St. Louis Chapter
Association of Missouri Mediators
American Bar Association: ADR Section; Labor and Employment Law Section
The Missouri Bar, Labor Law Section
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis: ADR Committee
Community
Involvement
St. Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association
Clayton Chamber of Commerce
Clayton/Ladue Rotary Club
Friends of the American Youth Foundation, former president
St. Louis Abbey School Society, director
American Youth Foundation, former St. Louis Advisory Board member
Citizens for Missouri's Children, former secretary and director
