BIOGRAPHY
My formal educational background is in business administration and law. I am a lawyer in good standing, licensed by the State of California in 1986. Since 1993, I have been building my mediation practice. I have resolved well over a thousand disputes for churches, nonprofit agencies, individuals and corporations and have more than 350 hours of formal mediation-related training. This includes active listening skills enhancement, interviewing techniques and mediation role-plays and simulations.
I have trained other lawyers and mediators, and I have led workshops for the public on how to resolve conflict. I have spoken at workshops attended by couples on mediation, gender reconciliation, and other subjects related to conflict resolution.
I believe that I have exceptional experience and skills in resolving conflict between men and women, including conflicts surrounding sexual harassment or misconduct.
Please contact us with your questions by calling (209) 834-5912.
SPECIAL MASTER AND ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE
- Lead Trial Attorney/Litigator
- 36 Jury Trials
- Dozens of Court Trials and Arbitrations
- Judge Pro Tem Superior Court
- Court Ordered Arbitrator Superior Court
- Practicing Attorney Since 1986
- Practicing Attorney Since 1986
FORMAL MEDIATION AND ADR TRAINING
- Effective Listening Course - Xerox (12 hrs)
- Commercial Mediator Training - ADRA (40 hrs)
- Mediation Training - Better Business Bureau (3 hrs)
- Communication Course - Process Therapy Institute (PTI) (4 hrs)
- Introduction to Process Therapy Training (PTI) (21 hrs)
- Advanced Process Therapy Training (PTI) (40 hrs)
- Co-Mediator Training - Dept. of Human Resources (40 hrs)
- Co-Creative Relationships - Hendrix Institute for Relationships (30 hrs)
- Advanced Training - Academy of Family Mediators (8 hrs)
- Mediation & Counseling - Santa Clara Law School (64 hrs)
- Special Master Training - Santa Clara Bar Association (8 hrs)
- Association of Unity Churches International -Peacekeeping & Mediation Training (75 hrs)
- AUCI-Credentialed Leader Minister/Ministry Review Process (20 hrs)
- Nonviolent Communication Trainings (various) (25 hrs)
- Other miscellaneous courses (excess of 130 hours)
MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION EXPERIENCE
Represented well over 200 Private Mediation clients.
Institutional Clients include:
- Santa Clara County Superior Court- ADR & Family Law ADR
- Northern District of California - Bankruptcy Dispute Resolution Panel
- Santa Clara County Small Claims Court ADR
- Program Department of Human Relations - Santa Clara County
- Legal Aid Society - Santa Clara County (landlord/tenant)
- Better Business Bureau (commercial disputes)
- Project Sentinel (real estate and landlord/tenant)
- Victim Offender Mediation Program (criminal restitution)
- Los Gatos Rental Dispute Resolution Program
- Association of Unity Churches Intl. Peacekeeper
- Miscellaneous other nonprofit organizations and churches
FORMAL EDUCATION
- B.S. Business Administration Indiana University 1976
- J.D. Santa Clara Law School 1985
- Dr. Div. Emerson Institute 2001
OTHER
- Professor, St. Mary's College, School of Extended Education
- Teacher of Nonviolent Communication, Spiritual Principles of
- Conflict Resolution, Authentic Community and so forth.