Mediator Profile

Professional Experience

• Admitted to State Bar of California December, 1987;

• Practice focused on real estate nondisclosure and related litigation since 1991;

• Represented buyers, sellers and brokers in hundreds of litigated and pre-litigated matters;

• Participated in hundreds of mediations either as a party representative or as a neutral since mid-1990s;

• Provide risk management advice to numerous real estate brokerages in Southern California

Education / Experience / Affiliations

• Georgetown University, Washington DC, BS Linguistics and French

• University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA, JD

• Mediation training: Strauss Institute; California Association of REALTORS®

• Martindale Hubbel AV rated continuously since 1997;

• Listed to Super Lawyers since 2013

• Member San Diego Association of REALTORS® Risk Management Committee 2015 – Present;

• Member California Association of REALTORS® Strategic Defense Counsel Panel from its inception to its dissolution

Specialty Areas in Real Estate Disputes

• Pre-litigation contractual mediation;

• Litigated  matters: nondisclosure, statutory violations, standard of care violations, breach of contract, procuring cause, earnest money disputes, rescission claims, dual agency claims, listing agreement disputes, contractual indemnity, construction defect claims, etc.;

• Risk management counseling;

• Contract preparation and review

Service Areas

• California

Philanthropy

• Member, Board of Directors, Resounding Joy, a nonprofit organization providing music therapy services to persons who cannot afford to pay for them privately;

• Have served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for a young man in foster care

 
Rates (Split between the parties)

• Full day: 10-hour minimum (including two hours review of exhibits and briefs, pre-mediation calls with counsel, and eight hours of session time): $4,500

• Half day: 5-hour minimum (includes one hour review of exhibits and briefs, pre-mediation calls with counsel and four hours of session time): $2,250

• Hourly rate for additional time: $450 in increments of .5 hour