Biography
Full-time arbitrator/mediator/private judge since 1989; part-time arbitrator/mediator 1975-88.
Large Complex Case Panel, American Arbitration Association (AAA); Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators; also AAA Construction Panel, Employment Panel, Health Care Panel, Intellectual Property Panel; International Panel; Receiver; Special Referee, Los Angeles Superior Court; Facilitator/mediator for public policy disputes. More than 20 years as Judge pro tem. Los Angeles Superior and Municipal Courts.
Presided at over 600 cases as arbitrator, mediator, or private judge, in areas including the following:
- aerospace/defense, banking, business torts, commercial contracts, communications, computers (hardware/software/IP),
- construction,
- employment (including discrimination/wrongful termination/sexual harassment), eminent domain (inverse condemnation),
- entertainment, environmental, franchising, fraud
- health care, insurance (coverage/indemnity)
- intellectual property
- international business/trade, limited liability organizations, media (defamation, first amendment)
- medical malpractice, mineral rights, real property, securities
- sports (amateur/professional), surety, trusteeship
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