A former law clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, John Barkett is a partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. in Miami. He has been a commercial and environmental litigator for over forty-seven years. For the past two decades, John has been serving as an arbitrator or mediator in domestic and international commercial disputes or bilateral investment treaty disputes, as a mediator in a variety of substantive law fields, and as an environmental allocator. John also serves as a special master in federal litigation, including, since 2003, service as the special master overseeing the implementation of the federal consent decree governing the $8 billion restoration of the Florida Everglades. John was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules by Chief Justice Roberts in 2012, and served on the Rule 45 Subcommittee, the Discovery Subcommittee that developed the December 1, 2015 amendments to the rules, the Rule 23 Subcommittee that developed the 2018 amendments to Rule 23, and the Rule 30(b)(6) and MDL subcommittees (2012-2018). From 2016-2019, John served on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. John is a member of the American Law Institute. He is a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, the College of Commercial Arbitrators (where he also sits on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee), and the American College of Environmental Lawyers. John teaches “E-Discovery” at the University of Miami Law School and, among other works, has authored two books, E-Discovery: Twenty Questions and Answers and The Ethics of E-Discovery, John is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (B.A. Government, 1972, summa cum laude))and Yale Law School (J.D. 1975). He is also the author of an annual review of the Roberts’ Court, a project he started when John Roberts became the Chief Justice. In 2019, John was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Professional Excellence Awards dinner hosted each year by the Miami Daily Business Review.