Subject Matter Experience as Mediator

National practice as mediator in well over 1,000 cases, many involving seven or larger figure disputes, involving business; international; technology; construction; employment; patent/intellectual property; trade secret; software licensing and development; Internet; telecommunications; energy; regulatory; land use; environmental; real estate; hotel; hospitality; entertainment; toxic tort; mold exposure; products liability; copyright/fair use; mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance; sex, age, and race discrimination; Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) discrimination; Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); wrongful termination; sex harassment; Fair Employment Housing Act; public policy; whistleblowing; partnership and joint venture dissolution; distributorship termination; franchise; legal malpractice; securities; antitrust; health care; managed care; HMO Employees Retirement Security Act (ERISA); medical malpractice; copyright; trademark; gaming, Indian gaming; catastrophic personal injury; maritime; various life, disability, property and casualty, liability insurance and reinsurance issues; class actions; contracts; commercial; and various multi-party disputes.

Representative Mediations

Appointed by California PUC as a mediator in telecommunications regulatory proceedings involving sixteen parties and review of economic formula for adjusting local telephone rates in California.
Restructuring of major long-term requirements/supply agreement between a global mining concern and an international agricultural chemical company based in Canada.
Workout of complex under-financed real estate development dispute among developer-builders and various individual investors.
Claims by shareholders against corporate officers regarding breach of fiduciary duty and excessive compensation, involving both derivative and direct shareholder claims.
Dispute between hospital owner/operator and health care district involving option to purchase hospital facility.
Division of community property in the marital dissolution of a billionaire couple involving complex real estate, financing, and tax issues.
Construction dispute involving delay, change order, extended overhead, and related claims among owner, general contractor, and subcontractors on the hospital project.
Appointed as Special Master and Mediator in a multi-party construction dispute involving water intrusion and related insurance issues in a multi-building biotech complex.
Contract dispute involving $120 million acquisition of silicon wafer plant by Belgian and German investors.
Bad faith claim arising from property and casualty insurance policy.
Contract dispute between the large software company and the corporate customer regarding the development of an enterprise system.
Lease dispute between physician owner and lessee of cancer care facility.
Software development dispute between a large Asian manufacturer and a U.S. research and development firm.
Patent dispute between Korean conglomerate and various Taiwan OEMs involving the U.S. market for computers.
Mold contamination suit by condo homeowners against 16 subcontractors.
Whistle-blower claims by the medical director of clinical study against the biotech company.
Joint venture dissolution between Japanese investors and U.S. developer of Pacific Island golf course resort.
Copyright dispute involving fair use issues.
Real estate development dispute involving Indian gaming facility.
Contract dispute between gas and electric utility and co-generation facility.
Claims brought by all California counties against large public utilities for user fees.
Various disputes involving the wine and hospitality industry in Napa Valley and Sonoma County.
Various contract claims between health care insurers and provider groups.
Various race, age, disability, and sex discrimination employment disputes.
Various insurance disputes involving liability, property and casualty, directors and officers, reinsurance, and professional liability insurance policies, including bad faith and subrogation claims.
Various securities fraud class actions.
Various trade secret misappropriation cases.
Various software licensing disputes.
Various franchise and distributorship disputes.