Description: We help parties settle cases in unlawful detainer, insurance coverage, real estate, personal injury, employment and other matters.
Since 2012, I have been helping parties settle cases in civil disputes, including landlord/tenant, insurance coverage, bad faith, ERISA, real estate, personal injury, employment and other matters. After being a civil litigator for more than 20 years, helping parties find mediated solutions to civil disputes is now my primary directive.
Our legal system assigns roles to the participants in litigated civil disputes. The lawyer’s job is to zealously represent the client’s interests, pursuing the best legal theories and deploying the most favorable strategy to maximize the client’s odds for, and extent of, success. Juries are — ideally — a cross-section of the community which assess factual allegations, make credibility determinations and apply the law to arrive at a result. Judges manage the process, make factual and legal determinatio
Settlement also deserves an advocate. As a neutral, my job is to be an advocate for closure and peace. My role is to help the parties, and their lawyers, assess the benefits of a settlement versus throwing the dice and going to trial. I get to champion the upsides of compromise to achieve closure and certainty. Peace needs a good lawyer, too.