 NEUTRAL
PROFILE INFORMATION
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Neutral Training |
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Harvard Law School,
Mediation Workshop November 1993 (40 hrs) |
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U.S. District Court, ENE,
Mediation & Arbitration, 1993; 1994 (30 hrs) |
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AAA, PSE & NASD
Training 1994 (14 hrs) |
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NASD Advanced Arbitrator Skills 1995 (7 hrs) |
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AAA Mediation Training, March 1996
(24 hrs) |
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Internt’l Commercial
Arbitration AAA. 1996 (3 days) |
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AAA Construction & Arbitration
Training, 1997 (2 days) |
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US Postal Service Transformative Mediation
Training, 1998 (16 hrs) |
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1st
California Appellate District, January 1999(20 hrs) |
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Experience as Neutral |
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13 years:
Discovery Referee(100+ cases); Arbitration, private &
judicial(300+ cases); ENE (25 cases; Mediation (100+ cases) |
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Neutral Practice Area(s) |
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Property damage;
personal injury; construction; products liability; employment
termination; commercial disputes; Silicon Valley type, real estate;
business partnerships; trade secrets; insurance coverage; wills
& estate distribution |
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Co-Mediation Experience |
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None. |
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Philosophy |
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Except for decision
maker, all of the available approaches.
Tend to be combination with a suggestive, directive bias. |
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Special Requirements/
Comments |
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Representative Cases: ENE-Federal plane crash; 2 deaths; Binding Arbitration-Dispute between two opthalogists over purchase/sale of practice; Discovery Referee-clams against Planned Parenthood, San Mateo Chptr.; Heavy insurance coverage for claims against savings & loan and another against a developer; Mediation-personal injury; insurance coverage; undisclosed damage on house sale/purchase; roof defect; residential lot lines.
Whole professional life devoted to the neutral process, educated through continuing education;
Past
President, California Dispute Resolution Council. Fellow, College of
Commercial Arbitrators. Diplomat member, California Academy of
Neutrals. Former appointed member of The State Bar Standing Committee
on ADR. Member, Association of Conflict Resolution, Northern
California. Chaired steering groups which established the Santa Clara
and San Mateo Bar Associations panels of neutrals, which eventually
become the Court programs |
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Judicial Arbitration to
Mediation |
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