Better Business Bureau recognizes the Top Arbitrator at Annual Gala
CHICAGO, IL – Brian T. O’Connor will receive the Arbitrator of the Year Award from the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois (BBB) at the group’s 86th Annual Dinner Meeting on Thursday, March 21, 2013, at the Chicago Downtown Marriot. This award is presented to the BBB arbitrator who best exemplifies the qualities and skills in assisting people using the BBB Alternative Dispute Resolution Program.
“As an arbitrator, Mr. O’Connor has greatly assisted individuals and businesses come to fair and equitable agreements,” said Steve J. Bernas, president & CEO of the Better Business Bureau serving Chicago and Northern Illinois.
O’Connor was certified as a Better Business Bureau Auto Line Arbitrator for the Chicago office in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has arbitrated more than a dozen Auto Line cases, in addition to several other types of consumer cases.
After completing undergraduate studies and law school at Marquette University, O’Connor worked here in Chicago as a trial attorney, before entering the corporate world, where he performed subsidiary general counsel roles for Coca-Cola and Ameritech. O’Conner then moved to become vice president of legislative and regulatory affairs for T-Mobile USA in Washington, D.C.
O’Connor has served on the board of directors of The Civic Federation and on the board of directors of the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois, prior to his move to Washington D.C. He returned to the Chicago area in 2004 to provide legal and consulting services to a variety of start-up enterprises.
