Robert Ezra has been championing mediation and other alternative dispute resolution procedures long before the crisis in the Los Angeles court system. He uses creativity and industry knowledge to facilitate mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods not available in the courtroom. FDR’s goal is to serve as a neutral third party, to reach an agreement that meets the needs of both sides, and save the financial and emotional costs that usually accompany a court case.
As a lawyer, Ezra has over thirty-five years of fashion industry experience resolving disputes for fashion industry clients.
As a loan officer with Manufacturers Bank in Downtown Los Angeles, Robert Ezra learned the entire manufacturing process from the spinning of yarn to retail delivery. Since he chose to practice law in 1976, he has represented hundreds of garment and textile manufacturers, salesmen, designers and retailers, factors and institutional lenders in every facet of the industry, including the formation of companies, shareholder disputes, international transactions, merchantability and retail disputes. As a founding lawyer of Ezra Brutzkus Gubner LLP and now the head of the Fashion Law Practice at Freeman Freeman Smiley LLP, Robert Ezra is a Certified Mediator and was a Panel Member of the Los Angeles Superior Court Mediation.