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
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.
Diana Kruze
Mediator, Arbitrator, Private Judge, and Discovery Referee/Special MasterADR by Diana
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/diana-kruze/ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation; Special Master.
Specialty Areas
Entertainment; Family; Fee Disputes; Financial; Government; Healthcare; HOA, TIC, Condo Disputes; Insurance; Intellectual Property; Intra-Organizational; LGBT Issues; Labor; Landlord/Tenant; Land Use; Legal Malpractice; Medical Malpractice; Partnership Dissolution; Personal Injury; Probate/Trust; Products Liability; Professional Malpractice; Real Estate; Securities; Uninsured Motorist; Women's Issues.
Frederick C. Hertz JD
Lawyer/MediatorLaw & Mediation Office of Frederick Hertz
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/hertz/ADR Services
Mediation, Arbitration, Special Master
Additional Services
Real Property Referee Services; Case Evaluation; Collaborative Consulting Services.
Specialty Areas
Real Property, Non-Marital And Marital Dissolutions, Co-Ownership Conflicts, Business Partnership Disputes, Family Disputes, Land Use & Environmental Conflicts, Neighborhood Conflicts.
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.
Gretchen M. Wallacker
PartnerBerra Stross Wallacker & Mass
411 Borel AvenueSuite 550
San Mateo, CA 94402 Phone: (650) 212-7861 Fax: (659) 349-9907 Email: gwallacker@bswmlaw.com Website: www.bswmlaw.com
ADR Services
Mediation
Additional Services
Collaborative Practice
Specialty Areas
Family Law
Laura Goldin
Mediation Law Office of Laura Goldin
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/goldin/ADR Services
Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Family Law, including all aspects of Domestic Partnership, Non Marital and Marital Terminations (Asset Division, Child and Spousal Support, Child Custody), Pre and Post Cohabitation and Marital/Domestic Partnership Agreements, Pre-Estate Planning Agreements, Probate Dispute Resolution, Housing Issues.
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.
Michael C. Tobriner
Law and Mediation Offices of Michael C. Tobriner
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/tobriner/ADR Services
Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Family Law, including Dissolution of Marriage, Marital Separation, Child Custody, Child and Spousal Support, Property Division, Premarital and Post- Marital Agreements, and Cohabitation Agreements and Dissolutions.
Nicole Gesher JD
Attorney and MediatorGesher Mediation
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/gesher/ADR Services
Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Business; Civil Rights; Commercial; Contracts; Family Law; Fee Disputes; Finance; Intellectual Property; Landlord / Tenant; Partnership Disputes.
Otis McGee Jr.
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/mcgee/ADR Services
Mediation
Specialty Areas
Labor and Employment, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Civil Rights, ADA Cases, Discrimination, Construction Defect/Delay Claims, Landlord/Tenant, Family, Environment, Medical Malpractice.
Paula M. Lawhon
Founding Mediator & Attorney at LawLawhon Law & Mediation, P.C.
4040 Civic Center DriveSuite 200
San Rafael, CA 94903 Phone: (415) 398-3400 Fax: (415) 398-3446 Email: paula@lawhonlaw.com Website: www.lawhonlaw.com
ADR Services
Mediation.
Additional Services
Full-Time Family Law Mediator. Private Settlement Conferences.
Specialty Areas
Family Law; Dissolution of Marriage and Domestic Partnership; Custody and Visitation; Spousal and Child Support; Premarital and Postmarital Agreements.
ADR Experience/Training
Practicing law for over 20 years and mediating for 17 years. Over 150 hours of family law mediation skills training (as trainer, presenter, and participant/attendee).
Education
J.D., Hastings College of the Law, University of California, 1999; B.A. Cum Laude, Criminology, Law, and Society, University of California, Irvine, 1996.
Licenses/Certification
Certified Specialist, Family Law, State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
Affiliations
Bench Bar Settlement Conference Panelist (Marin Superior Court); Marin County Bar Association; Bar Association of San Francisco (Mediation, and Family Law Sections).
Honors/Awards
Hastings College of the Law, Public Interest Scholar; University of California Phi, Beta, Kappa; Super Lawyers; Top Women Attorneys in Northern California.
Articles/Publications
Inside the Minds: Strategies for Family Law in California 2013 ed. (2013).
Richard S. Kinyon
PartnerShartisis Friese LLP
One Maritime Plaza18th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-3598 Phone: (415) 773-7211 Alternate: (415) 425-9404 Fax: (415) 421-2922 Email: rkinyon@sflaw.com Website: www.sflaw.com
ADR Services
Mediation
Specialty Areas
Disputes between/among Executors, Trustees and/or Beneficiaries; Tax issues relating to Trusts, Estates & Beneficiaries.
ADR Experience/Training
Received Mediation Certificate from Bar Association of San Francisco in June 2018
Education
J.D., Cum Laude, University of Minnesota, 1965; B.A., University of Minnesota, 1961
Licenses/Certification
CA State Bar (since 1966); Certified as Specialist in Taxation Law by California Board of Legal Specialization (since 1973); Certified as a Mediator by BASF (since 2018).
Articles/Publications
Author of CA CEB Treatise Chapters on Estate Planning Matters. Received Spirit of CEB Award in 2015.
Seeds Community Resolution Center
AddieRose MayerExecutive Director 2530 San Pablo Avenue
Suite A
Berkeley, CA 94702 Phone: (510) 548-2377 Email: info@seedscrc.org Website: www.seedscrc.org
Additional Services
Facilitation; Restorative Justice; Training; Coaching
Specialty Areas
Neighbors; Landlord/Tenant; Community; Family; Workplace
Shelley M. Kennedy
Partner, Attorney & MediatorLawhon Law & Mediation, P.C.
4040 Civic Center DriveSuite 200
San Rafael, CA 94903 Phone: (415) 398-3400 Fax: (415) 398-3446 Email: shelley@lawhonlaw.com Website: www.lawhonlaw.com
ADR Services
Mediation.
Additional Services
Full-Time Family Law Mediator; Private Settlement Conferences; Mandatory Settlement Conference Master (SF Superior Court).
Specialty Areas
Family Law; Dissolution of Marriage & Domestic Partnership; Custody and Visitation; Spousal and Child Support; Premarital and Postmarital Agreements.
Stephen B. Ruben
President / CEO / Managing DirectorThe Ruben Law Firm, APC
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/ruben/ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation.
Specialty Areas
Family Law; Child Custody, move aways, domestic partnership disputes, property and support disputes, Marvin claims; pre and post-nuptial agreements; complex property division; high earner spousal and child support; complex community/separate business valuation and divisions.
ADR Experience/Training
Family Law Mediator since 1999; Family Law Settlement Master for the Unified Family Court of San Francisco since 1998; BASF Mediator and Chief Arbitrator on Attorney Fee Disputes since 1998, family law matters; Judge Pro-Tem for the Unified Family Court of San Francisco on Support, Custody, Property and Domestic Violence Issues since 1998. Judge Pro Tem - Supervisor Bench Bar Settlement Conference, Marin County Superior Court.
Education
B.A. with Honors, Bethany College, 1970; J.D., Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago Kent College of Law, 1973.
Licenses/Certification
Illinois Bar (1973); California Bar (1992); California Board of Legal Specialization - Family Law Specialist, Pepperdine School of Law - Strauss School of Alternative Dispute Resolution (1998); Collaborative Law training (1999); Advanced Collaborative Law training (2000).
Affiliations
State Bar of California, Elkins Family Law Task Force - Member 2008-Present; Executive Committee, State Bar of California - Family Law Section - Liaison to Elkins Task Force; Bar Association of San Francisco Family Law Section; Lawyers Club of San Francisco, Past President and member of the Board; California Association of Certified Family Law Specialists.
Articles/Publications
Cal Family Law Monthly, June 1, 2010, Vol. 2010, No. 6, --Liability for Debts.; Cal Family Law Monthly, June 1, 2010, Vol. 2010, No. 6, --CHILD CUSTODY.; Cal Family Law Monthly, April 1, 2010, Vol. 3010, No. 4, --CHILD CUSTODY.; Cal Family Law Monthly, April 1, 2010, Vol. 2010, No. 4, --SPOUSAL SUPPORT.; Cal Family Law Monthly, February 1, 2010, Vol. 2010, No. 2, CHILD SUPPORT.; Cal Family Law Monthly, February 1, 2010, Vol. 2010, No. 2, --PROCEDURE IN GENERAL.; Cal Family Law Monthly, December 1, 2009, Vol. 2009, No. 12, --Child Support Guideline.
Urs M. Laeuchli Esq.
Arbitration Chambers
Email: mking@sfbar.org Website: www.sfbar.org/adr-services/mediation-panelists/laeuchli/ADR Services
Arbitration; Mediation.
Additional Services
ADR System Design; Collaborative Law; Conciliation; Consulting; MedArb; Negotiation.
Specialty Areas
Business; Civil Rights; Commercial; Education; Environmental; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Issues; International; Malpractice (Legal, Medical, etc.); Probate/ Trust; Real Estate.