Allan Schwartz
Law Offices of Allan Schwartz
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/schwartzADR Services
Mediation and Arbitration
Specialty Areas
Real Estate, Fee Disputes, Entertainment, Contract, Business, Intellectual Property, Partnership Disputes
Anne M. Lawlor Goyette
PrincipalGriffiths * Goyette
330 Primrose Road, Suite 614Burlingame, CA 94010 Phone: (650) 375-5960 Fax: (650) 375-5965 Email: Anne@SpecialMasterMediator.com Website: www.SpecialMasterMediator.com
ADR Services
Special Master; Arbitration; Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Construction; Real Estate; Insurance; Business; Contracts; Professional Malpractice.
Arthur R. Siegel
Law Offices of Arthur R. Siegel
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/siegelADR Services
Mediation.
Additional Services
Early Neutral Evaluator.
Specialty Areas
Labor and Employment, Disability, Discrimination, Civil Litigation.
Barri Kaplan Bonapart
OwnerBonapart & Associates
591 Redwood HighwaySuite 2310
Mill Valley, CA 94941 Phone: (415) 332-3313 Fax: (415) 332-4603 Email: bonapart@got-peace.com Website: www.got-peace.com
ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation.
Additional Services
Court Discovery Facilitator/Referee; Private Judge; Parenting Coordinator.
Specialty Areas
Tree and Neighbor Law; Real Estate Disputes; Complex Commercial Issues; Construction; Land Use; Personal Injury; Insurance; Product Liability.
ADR Experience/Training
Initial training in 1990's at Pepperdine University's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution & the Center for Mediation In Law; dozens of courses (training & teaching) since; neutral since 1996; Founder and Principal of Bonapart Resolution.
Education
JD, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, 1985; BA/BA, Poli Sci/Mass Comm, UC Berkeley, 1982.
Affiliations
Referee, facilitator & pro tem settlement judge in various jurisdictions.
Honors/Awards
Nominee Real Property Person of the Year - 2013.
Articles/Publications
Understanding Tree Law: A Handbook for Practitioners (Thomson Reuters 2014); dozens of articles on mediation and real property law.
Brian J. Purtill
Attorney/MediatorArbitration & Mediation Center
50 Santa Rosa Avenue, Suite 420Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Phone: (707) 525-9409 Alternate: (707) 217-1161 Fax: (707) 542-0215 Email: brian@brianpurtill.com Website: www.brianpurtill.com
ADR Services
Mediation
Additional Services
Early Neutral Evaluation, Arbitrations
Specialty Areas
Contract; Construction; Trusts and Estates; Personal Injury; Property Damage; Business; Partnership Dispute; Neighbor/Boundary Disputes.
ADR Experience/Training
Over twenty years' experience as a mediator and arbitrator; over 150 hours training in fundamental, business, elder law, family law, and collaborative mediation practices; conducted mediations and arbitrations since 1996; conducted Mandatory Settlement Conferences for the Sonoma County Family Law Division from 2016-2018.
Education
JD, Law, University of San Francisco, 1984.
Affiliations
Mediator and Arbitrator with Arbitration & Mediation Center, Santa Rosa since 1996 to the present; Past Board Member of Integrative Mediation of the Bay Area (IMBA); Current Chairperson, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Sonoma County Bar Association; Current member of Sonoma County Bar Association Board of Directors; Dean, Empire College School of Law, Santa Rosa, California (August 2018-Present).
Bruno Augustus Peguese
Mediator/ArbitratorSelf-Employed
576 2nd AveSan Francisco, CA 94118 Phone: (415) 423-7194 Alternate: (415) 668-3481 Email: Peguese1968@gmail.com Website: www.APmediationsf.com
ADR Services
- Mediation
- Arbitration
Additional Services
Legal Investigations; Real Estate Professional
Specialty Areas
- Construction
- Contracts
- Family
- Fee Disputes
- Government Contracts
- Land Use
- Real Estate
ADR Experience/Training
Numerous years in mediation, arbitration and negotiated settlement
Education
BA political science
JD Law
University of San Francisco
Licenses/Certification
Calif. Private Investigator; Mediation/Arbitrator Certifications
Affiliations
Dept. of Police Accountability; Alameda County Healthy Homes; BASF
Honors/Awards
Transit-Orient Development - Convention Award
Carol M. Kingsley
Attorney Mediator ArbitratorKingsley Mediation & Arbitration Services
One Sansome Street, 35th FloorSan Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: (415) 681-4329 Fax: (415) 681-4329 Email: ckingsley@kingsleymediations.com Website: www.kingsleymediations.com
ADR Services
Mediation; Arbitration.
Additional Services
Facilitation; Partnering Contract.
Specialty Areas
Business; Contracts; Commercial; Real Estate; HOA; Landlord Tenant; Corporate; Partnership; Trust/Estate; Healthcare; Intellectual Property; Securities; Construction.
ADR Experience/Training
Full-time neutral. 30 years legal and mediation experience. Mediator in hundreds of disputes in litigation. Hundreds of hours of ADR basic and advanced training, including courses by Steve Rosenberg, Gary Friedman, US Northern District Court, BASF, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, Caltrans. Mediator mentor and supervisor for Congress of Neutrals.
Education
J.D. and M.B.A, Taxation, Golden Gate University, 1981; M.A., Health education, 1977; B.S., Health sciences, Towson State University, 1973.
Licenses/Certification
California State Bar, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation Certifications for basic, proficiency updated and advanced skills in dispute resolution in construction industry; NASD Qualified Representative (Series 7 License) 1982.
Affiliations
American Arbitration Association Mediator and Arbitrator; The Mediation Society, Director and Officer; Association for Conflict Resolution, Commercial Section; The Congress of Neutrals; American Bar Association, ADR Section; Bar Association of San Francisco; Dispute Resolution Board Foundation; FINRA; Queen's Bench and California Women Lawyers.
Honors/Awards
The Mediation Society, President; San Francisco Police Commissioner, Mayor Newsom appointee; San Francisco Ethics Commissioner, City Attorney Louise Renne appointee, twice elected chair; San Francisco Women Lawyers Alliance, President and Director; The Congress of Neutrals Mediator of the Year award.
Articles/Publications
You May Want to Mediate Your Dispute: Why Businesses Like Mediation, Westside Observer, a monthly newsletter of the West of Twin Peaks and West Portal community. Monthly column on construction, general business and tax topics for "Law Talk" in Turning Point, a monthly newsletter for Women Construction Owners and Executives, USA. A series of articles on tax topics for Commercial Property Guide, a publication for real estate professionals. Authored Chapter 4: "Tax Classification of Limited Liability Partnership," Limited Liability Partnerships, Formation, Operation and Conversion, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1997). "Build Strong Work Relationships and Protect Your Bottom Line," Daily Pacific Builder, a construction industry publication (March 1996). Editor, "Tax Exchange" (Golden Gate University tax alumni newsletter) (1990). Ninth Circuit Survey, Golden Gate University Law Review---Starker II: Non-recognition of Like-Kind Exchanges is Stretched to New Limits, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 493 (1980); The Davis Decision: Expansion of Non-recognition of Involuntary Conversions, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 507 (1980).
Cedric C. Chao
Founder and PrincipalChao ADR, PC
50 California St.Suite 1500
San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone: (415) 293-8088 Email: cedric.chao@chao-adr.com Website: www.chao-adr.com
ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation; Special Master
Additional Services
International Disputes Consulting; Mock Arbitrations
Specialty Areas
Business; Commercial; Contracts; Energy; Intellectual Property; International; Real Estate; Technology.
ADR Experience/Training
Head of International Litigation and Arbitration Practice of Morrison and Foerster LLP (1996-2013); US Head of the International Arbitration Practice of DLA Piper LLP (2013-2019); sat as ICC, ICDR, AAA, and SIAC Arbitrator; Completed AAA, ICDR, and CIArb training; Lectured on arbitrators' jurisdiction, arbitrator ethics, discovery, remedies, expedited proceedings, adjusting advocacy to meet contrasting rules and expectations in US jury, domestic and international arbitration settings, etc.
Education
B.A. with Distinction and Departmental Honors (Economics), Stanford University; J.D., Harvard Law School
Licenses/Certification
California State Bar; admitted to practice in all US District Courts in California; Ninth, Fifth and Tenth US Circuit Courts of Appeal; US Supreme Court.
Affiliations
Life Member, American Law Institute; One of 31 Advisors to the ALI Project to Draft the Restatement of the US Law of International Commercial and Investment Treaty Arbitration; Former US Member, ICC Arbitration Commission; Member, AAA/ICDR Council; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London); Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America; Former Chair, Litigation Section of the State Bar of California.
Honors/Awards
Named by The Daily Journal as one of California's "Top 100 Lawyers" (September 2018); Named by Best Lawyers in America as the "2018 San Francisco Arbitration Lawyer of the Year," and the "2020 San Francisco Mediation Lawyer of the Year;" Recipient of the Daily Journal's prestigious "2019 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year" award for thought leadership regarding international arbitration; Listed in Global Arbitration Review's "International Who's Who in Commercial Arbitration,” in Euromoney's Guide to World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, in Euromoney's Guide to World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers, and in Northern California Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters).
Articles/Publications
Co-author (with Hon. Daniel Weinstein) of the chapter on mediation in Thomson Reuters' treatise Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (5th Ed. 2021); Author, "Six Trends that Will Shape Future International Commercial Disputes," Law 360 (2017); Author, "Should Technology Companies Arbitrate?" Corporate Counsel (2017). See www.chao-adr.com or LinkedIn page for speaking engagements and additional publications.
Claudia M. Viera
Mediation Law Offices of Claudia M. Viera
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/vieraADR Services
Mediation.
Additional Services
Early Neutral Evaluation; Wage and Hour Class Actions; Training; Neutral Fact-Finding/ Workplace Investigation.
Specialty Areas
Business, Civil Rights, Commercial, Contract, Disability Rights, Discrimination, Education, Employment, Estates and Trusts, Family, Harassment, HOA Disputes, Landlord/Tenant, Partnership Dissolutions, Intra- Organizational, Retaliation, Wrongful Termination, Wage and Hour.
David A. Fink
Family Law NeutralADR Services
1 Kaiser PlazaSuite 480
Oakland, CA 94612 Phone: (510) 466-6630 Email: dfink@adrservices.com Website: www.finkfamilyadr.com
ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation; Special Master.
Additional Services
Collaborative Law.
Specialty Areas
Marital and non-marital dissolution; Division of assets; Spousal and child support; Custody and visitation; Elder and Adult Child disputes; Partnership and business disputes.
Elizabeth H. Shwiff CPA
Mediator Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/shwiff/ADR Services
Mediation.
Additional Services
Discovery Master; Project Neutral; Settlement Conference; Dispute Review.
Specialty Areas
Due Diligence of Life Insurance, Financial Planning, Fraud Investigations, Litigation Support Services, and Pension Plan Investment Products.
Gary L. Benton
US and International Arbitrator and MediatorGary Benton Arbitration
555 Bryant StreetSte. 523
Palo Alto, CA 94301 Phone: (650) 283-5949 Email: gary@garybentonarbitration.com Website: www.garybentonarbitration.com/
ADR Services
- Mediation
- Arbitration
Additional Services
Gary Benton is an internationally recognized Arbitrator and Mediator with expertise in international business, corporate investment, high tech, telecom, life sciences and emerging growth matters.
Specialty Areas
- Business
- Commercial
- Contracts
- Employment
- Energy
- Entertainment
- Intellectual Property
- International
- Intra– Organizational
- Partnership Disputes
- Patent/Trademark
- Securities
ADR Experience/Training
Over 35 years - has handled hundreds of cases around the world and serves on the panels of AAA, ICC, CPR and other leading ADR institutions in the US, Europe and Asia.
Appointed USDC NDCA Early Neutral Evaluator.
Education
AB cum laude, Washington University (Political Science, International Development and Earth & Planetary Sciences)
JD cum laude. Tulane University
Legal studies, UC Hastings (non-matriculated)
International studies, Stanford Univ. (non-matriculated)
Licenses/Certification
Qualified as a US lawyer (California and DC) and an English solicitor
Admitted US S.Ct., 9th Cir., Fed Cir. and all California federal district courts
Affiliations
Full time Arbitrator and Mediator;
Adjunct Professor of Law at Santa Clara University;
Founder/Chairman of Founder and Chairman of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC);
Previously a partner with Coudert Brothers and Pillsbury.
Honors/Awards
CIArb Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow; College of Commercial Arbitrators Fellow, NADN Appointee.
Named by the National Law Journal as one of the 25 ADR Trendsetters and Visionaries in the US. Also named to IAM 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists.
Articles/Publications
See website www.garybentonarbitration.com for full publications listing
Additional affiliations: CIArb, CCA, NADN, ICCA, IBA, ABA, CLA, SVAMC, iTechLaw, AIPLA.
Co-Chair of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) International ADR Committee.
Geri Lynn Green
Attorney/Mediator/Arbitrator/ConsultantLaw Office of Geri Lynn Green
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/geri-green/ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Commercial, Business, Contract, Employment, Civil Rights, Real Estate (Business and Residential), Landlord/Tenant, Professional Malpractice, Intellectual Property, Personal Injury, Government Tort, Family, Appeals.
Gilda R. Turitz
Arbitrator and MediatorTuritz Dispute Resolution
Four Embarcadero, Suite 1400San Francisco, CA 94111-4164 Phone: (415) 324-8822 Fax: (888) 490-4441 Email: gt@turitzadr.com Website: www.turitzadr.com
ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation
Additional Services
Discovery Referee, Early Neutral Evaluation, Negotiation Training
Specialty Areas
Commercial Transactions, Professional Liability
ADR Experience/Training
Serves on numerous ADR panels including American Arbitration Association, National Commercial Arbitration, Mediation and Mergers and Acquisition Panels; CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals; U.S. District Court Mediation and Early Neutral Evaluation Panels; INTA Panel of Trademark Mediators
Education
J.D., Law, UC Davis; MLS, Library Science, UC Berkeley, B.A., Spanish and Russian, University of Michigan.
Licenses/Certification
California State Bar; admitted to practice in all U.S. District Courts in California and Colorado, Ninth and U.S. Supreme Court; CEDR Certified Mediator
Affiliations
Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators; National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
Honors/Awards
Best Lawyers in America for Arbitration; Best Lawyers 2019 Arbitration "Lawyer of the Year "in San Francisco; Super Lawyers for ADR, Business Litigation and Top 50 Women Lawyers, San Francisco.
Articles/Publications
Numerous publications in ADR, arbitration and mediation. See complete list at www.turitzadr.com
Jeffrey Allen
Attorney / Mediator / ArbitratorGraves & Allen
1300 Clay Street, Suite 600Oakland, CA 94612 Phone: (510) 839-8777 Alternate: (510) 610-8777 Fax: (510) 839-5192 Email: jallenlaw@gravesallen.com Website: www.gravesallen.com
ADR Services
Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Real Estate; Construction; Business Disputes; Personal Injury; Partnership Disputes; Trust Disputes.
Jeffrey R. Windsor
Mediator - AttorneyWindsor PLC
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/windsor/ADR Services
Mediation.
Additional Services
Discovery Referee; Early Neutral Evaluation.
Specialty Areas
Business; Construction Defect; Personal Injury; Employment; Insurance; Contracts; Landlord/Tenant; Real Estate; Fee Disputes.
Jill Haley Penwarden
PartnerRimon PC
423 Washington StreetSuite 600
San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone: (800) 930-7271 ext. 400 Email: jill.penwarden@rimonlaw.com Website: www.rimonlaw.com
ADR Services
Mediation
Additional Services
• Business
• Commercial
• Contracts
• Insurance
• Personal Injury
ADR Experience/Training
Jill Penwarden is a Certified Mediator and handles mediations including business disputes, insurance coverage disputes, and personal injury/premises liability cases.
Education
U.C. Berkeley School of Law (J.D. 1995); U.C. San Diego (B.A. 1992)
Licenses/Certification
California State Bar
Julie A. Welsh
Julie A. Welsh Mediation Services
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/welsh/ADR Services
Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Personal Injury, Product Liability, Medical Malpractice, Contract, Employment, Education, Disability Rights, Civil Rights, Title IX, Construction Contract, Construction Defect, Real Estate, HOA and Landlord-Tenant Disputes.
Karen Matcke Crosby
Attorney / Mediator 2001 Clayton RoadSuite 200
Concord, CA 94520 Phone: (925) 756-6062 Alternate: (925) 309-9184 Fax: (925) 237-8672 Email: kmcrosby@outlook.com Website: www.relawca.com
ADR Services
Mediation
Additional Services
Experience with both government and private legal maters and representation. Facilitation also available.
Specialty Areas
• Business
• Construction
• Contracts
• Credit/Financial
• Elder
• Environmental
• Fee Disputes
• Government Contracts
• Land Use
• Medical Malpractice
• Partnership Disputes
• Personal Injury
• Probate/Trust
• Professional Malpractice
• Real Estate
• Uninsured Motorists
• Women's Issues
ADR Experience/Training
12 years of mediation practice; Member of the Congress of Neutrals; Mediations conducted for the Contra Costa Superior Court and arbitrations for the Contra Costa Bar Association; Practicing litigation attorney for 32+ years various issues.
Education
Santa Clara University, J.D., 1982
Licenses/Certification
California Bar Association member (1989); Mediation Training completed (2009); Professional Mediation Associates; Training Humboldt Mediation Services; 80 hours of mediation training, court and community mediation (80 hours); Additional CLE mediation classes
Affiliations
California State Bar; Contra Costa County Bar; Contra Costa County Bar Alternative Dispute Section; Congress of Neutrals.
Former Board of Director - Humboldt Mediation Services
Who's Who - Top Attorneys of North America
Kenneth S Korea
Law & ADR
101 S. Santa Cruz Ave #888US and International Arbitrator and Mediator
Los Gatos, CA 95030 Phone: (408) 712-2045 Email: ken@colev.law Website: www.colev.law
ADR Services
• Mediation
• Arbitration
• Special Master
Additional Services
Ken Korea is an internationally recognized arbitrator and mediator with expertise in high tech, telecom, patent, multi-jurisdictional dispute, FRAND/SEP, trade secret, transborder M&A matters.
Specialty Areas
• Business
• Commercial
• Contracts
• Fee Disputes
• Intellectual Property
• International
• Intra– Organizational
• Partnership Disputes
• Patent/Trademark
• Personal Injury
• Professional Malpractice
• Real Estate
ADR Experience/Training
Practiced law over 29 years as a judicial law clerk, federal prosecutor, patent litigator, technology transactions attorney, and inhouse counsel and serves as a temporary judge and settlement conference officer for San Francisco Superior Court.
Education
Northwestern University School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1993
Cornell University, BS (Electrical Engineering), 1988
Licenses/Certification
Admitted as a US lawyer in California and Florida (inactive)
Patent Attorney registered with US Patent & Trademark Office
Affiliations
American Arbitration Association (AAA)
California Arbitration
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
KCAB INTERNATIONAL
Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center (SVAMC/Palo Alto)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Honors/Awards
AM Strategy 300 Top IP Strategists
Top In-House Counsel, Daily Journal, San Francisco, CA.
Articles/Publications
See https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenkorea/recent-activity/shares/ for publications.
Malcolm Sher
Attorney / MediatorMalcolm Sher 4 Mediated Solutions
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/sher/ADR Services
Mediation, Arbitration.
Additional Services
Neutral Evaluation.
Specialty Areas
Cross-Cultural Disputes; Business; Real Estate; Professional Malpractice; Contracts; Commercial; Employment; Personal Injury; Probate / Trust; Discrimination / Sexual Harassment.
ADR Experience/Training
Specialize in high emotional, cross-cultural disputes. Have mediated and arbitrated hundreds of cases in above specialty areas. Flexible approach. Respectful style. Willing to be evaluative, if appropriate. Training includes Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, Symposium at Harvard Negotiation Project, Steve Rosenberg Advanced Training. Have been panelist on numerous ADR programs.
Education
LLB (Hons), Law, London University, 1969.
Licenses/Certification
California Bar, 1976; Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of England and Wales, 1972.
Affiliations
Bar Associations of San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa; ADRNC; National and California Academies of Distinguished Neutrals; The Mediation Society.
Honors/Awards
State Bar of California; ADR Standing Committee; Executive Committee on Mandatory Fee Arbitration, 2010-2015.
Articles/Publications
Recognizing and Validating Diversity in Mediation, San Francisco Daily Journal, June 2012; "The High Cost of Failing to Prepare for Mediation", SFDJ, February 2012; "The Tail Wagging the Dog: Strategies for Settling Attorneys Fees - Driven Cases", SFDJ, February 2011; "Partition Actions Come in Many Shapes and Sizes", SFDJ, April 21, 2010; "Consider Mediating Fee Disputes Gracefully", SFDJ, November 11, 2013; "An Alternative Approach to Pre-Mediation Discovery" SFDJ, October 7, 2013.
Mark C. Peters
Managing PartnerDuckworth & Peters, LLP
369 Pine StreetSuite 410
San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: (415) 433-0328 2 Email: mark@duckworthpeters.com Website: www.DUCKWORTHPETERS.COM
ADR Services
Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Employment; Discrimination; Harassment; Retaliation; Partnership Disputes; Personal Injury; Business; Contracts.
ADR Experience/Training
Northern District of California Certified Mediation Training
Education
Certified Federal Mediator, Northern District of California
Mark D. Petersen
PartnerFarella Braun + Martel LLP
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/petersen/ADR Services
Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Business, Landlord/Tenant, Construction, Intellectual Property.
Mark J. Divelbiss
Mediator and AttorneyLaw Offices of Mark J. Divelbiss
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/divelbiss/ADR Services
Mediation; Arbitration; Special Master.
Additional Services
Early Neutral Evaluation; Conciliation.
Specialty Areas
Real Estate; Employment / Labor; Construction Defect; Business / Commercial; Landlord / Tenant; Personal Injury; Fee Disputes; Homeowner Assoc.; Contracts; Mechanic's Liens.
ADR Experience/Training
Certified mediator since 2001 with over 70 hours of mediation specific training. Conducted over 200 mediations and settlement conferences with a very high percentage of cases resolved. Conducted two day mediation seminar for claims adjusters / executives in London, England, an ADR presenter for BASF’s lunchtime speaker series and a call-in attorney for radio station KALW’s call a mediator program.
Education
B.S., Economics, Santa Clara University, 1986; JD, University of San Francisco, 1989.
Licenses/Certification
California Bar, 1989; Washington Bar, 2003.
Affiliations
Alameda County Superior Court ADR panel member, Contra Costa Superior Court Early Mediation panel member, Bar Association of San Francisco panel member, Sacramento Superior Court ADR panel member, Santa Clara County ADR panel member.
Articles/Publications
Authored articles on mediation published by the San Francisco Daily Journal.
Michael Dworkin
Managing PartnerAvialex Law Group, LLP
465 California StreetSuite 210
San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: (415) 421-2500 Fax: (415) 421-2560 Email: law@avialex.com Website: www.avialex.com
Specialty Areas
Aviation
Education
BA, w/Honors - Government Clark University, 1962
JD, w/Honors - George Washington University, 1973
Licenses/Certification
Pilot
BASF - Mediator Certification
Affiliations
Former President, NTSB Bar Association; Former Executive V.P., International Air & Transportation Safety Bar Association; President, Northern California Business Aviation Association
Articles/Publications
FAA Enforcement Journal, Associate Editor, 1972
Planning for Airports in Urban Environments, Transportation Law Journal and American Bar Association's Urban Lawyer, 1973
Airport Noise, Book Review, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 1975; The Gliderport's Dilemma: The Enemies Around and Within, Air and Space Lawyer and the Lawyer Pilot's Bar Association Journal, February 28 - March 1985, 1985
FAA Enforcement-A Practitioner's Perspective. Virginia Law Weekly, October 27- November 3, 1989
FAA Enforcement -A Practitioner's Perspective, ABA's Air and Space Lawyer, Winter, 1990
Air Carrier Compliance Demonstration-A New Catch :22, Lawyer Pilot's Bar Association Journal, Summer, 2002
Aviation Professionals and the Threat of Criminal Liability - How Do We Maximize Aviation Safety?, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Vol . 67, Summer, 2002
Operation Safe Pilot, National Transportation Safety Board Association Newsletter, Winter. 2005
America's Aging Airport System Needs a Makeover", Los Angeles Daily Journal,January 9, 2008
Quoted by www.bloomberg.com "Concorde Crash Criminal Trial May Scare Off Witnesses", December 3, 2010