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Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Admitted as an attorney in California.
Admitted as a solicitor (higher courts advocate) in England and Wales.
Barrister (full qualification). Called to the bar by Gray’s Inn, London.
Member of the Board of Advisors to the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peace-building Program at CSU Dominguez Hills.
Past-member of the Board of Advisors of the National Center for the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions (City University of New York),

LL.M Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, Malibu, U.S.A.

LL.M International Business Law, University of Manchester (Lawson Prize)

LL.B (Hons), University of Sheffield

John A. Swarbrick Law was established in 2023 as the vehicle for John to provide his services as a professional neutral.

Before that, John served in multiple advocacy roles, over many years, providing advice and representation to a wide variety of management and labor clients. This included being the principal of a full-service labor relations company, representing clients in collective bargaining negotiations, arbitrations, and in proceedings before PERB and the NLRB.

John also had a long association with the California State University system. First, as a consultant with C. Richard Barnes and Associates, LLC, and then as its Associate Vice Chancellor for Employee and Labor Relations. In that role, John had systemwide responsibility for negotiating and administering all of CSU’s labor agreements, acted as senior labor advisor to the CSU Chancellor and the CSU Board of Trustees, and served on the Chancellor's senior leadership team. John also served for several years as the head of CSU's systemwide Equal Employment Opportunity and Whistleblower Protection Department.

C. Richard Barnes was the 14th Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. John worked extensively with Richard to provide organizational labor relations advice, training, and representation across all of North America (U.S. and Canada) to a wide range of high-level management and labor organizations, including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades; the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Southern California Pipe Trades Council; the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers; and the International Association of Iron Workers.

Before moving to the United States, John practiced law in the United Kingdom. Qualified as both a barrister and solicitor, John had a national profile for his representation of police officers. John was instructed as standing outside counsel to the Police Superintendent's Association of England and Wales, the National Black Police Association, and the Metropolitan Black Police Association, whom he represented in the Morris Inquiry. In addition to advising and representing officers facing misconduct and/or criminal investigations, John also advised and represented officers and civilian staff that had been subjected to discrimination and retaliation within the police service. Many of his cases in the UK had national media profiles, and John was a regular contributor to national print and broadcast media.