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Voluntary Early Mediation (VEM) Program

Choosing a Mediator

The parties agree that BASF will administer the case if this mediator is chosen. File the Mediation Consent form (43KB PDF) to initiate the process.


Thomas C. Nagle

Erickson, Beasley, Hewitt & Wilson


Areas of Experience: Real Estate, Construction, Land Use


Thomas C. Nagle is a 1962 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and its law school, Hastings College of the Law in 1965. He has enjoyed membership in the San Francisco Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates for more than ten years and is in his fortieth year of trial practice reserving time for alternative dispute resolution.

Nagle has earned the reputation for trustworthiness and neutrality, which stemmed from his early diverse trial practice with the State Department of Transportation in San Francisco as a defense attorney trying catastrophic injury and noteworthy eminent domain actions to his departure in 1990 to start a plaintiff oriented trial office.

For the past fifteen years Nagle has had a successful practice specializing in eminent domain and inverse condemnation matters. Being committed to representing both government agencies and private individuals in dispute with the government has provided him with a unique knowledge and understanding of the subject matter of such disputes, which overcomes any tendency toward bias and captures the confidence of the parties from the outset.

Nagle commenced his alternative dispute practice while volunteering with the courts in the Bay Area. He graduated from the first Mediation & Mediation Advocacy Training Program given at the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at the Stanford Law School in 2003.

Hourly Rate: $350