Superior Court Alameda County (Oakland)
Career Highlights: Robert McGuiness (ret.), is a neutral with Signature Resolution who handles a diverse range of matters. He served as supervising judge of both a criminal and civil courthouse and spent nearly 10 years as an active civil trial judge. During the last four years of his judicial career, McGuiness was the supervising judge of the Alameda County Superior Court's Civil Litigation Settlement Unit, where he conducted hundreds of settlement conferences. As a lawyer and judge, he tried hundreds of civil cases, resulting in 13 published opinions.
Signature Resolution
Career Highlights: Robert McGuiness (ret.), is a neutral with Signature Resolution who handles a diverse range of matters. He served as supervising judge of both a criminal and civil courthouse and spent nearly 10 years as an active civil trial judge. During the last four years of his judicial career, McGuiness was the supervising judge of the Alameda County Superior Court's Civil Litigation Settlement Unit, where he conducted hundreds of settlement conferences. As a lawyer and judge, he tried hundreds of civil cases, resulting in 13 published opinions.
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By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
OAKLAND - It was a rare tranquil morning in Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert D. McGuiness' courtroom. A scheduled civil trial had been postponed, no lawyers with motions were clamoring for attention, the phone was silent.
In his chambers, alone with his baseball memorabilia including a large Lego ballpark, McGuiness, 64, briefly marveled at the calm. "The quiet you see here is hardly the nature... (continued)
