Tecopa Arbitration & Mediation Lawyers
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Employment and IP
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Arbitration & Mediation, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Construction and Elder
Certified - Pepperdine University - Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
Arbitration & Mediation
I graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Philosophy from TCU and later from Harvard Law School in 1965. Since becoming a member of the State Bar of California in 1966, I have operated my own law firm focusing on general business, estates, probate, and trusts. In 1996 I received my first mediation certificate from Pepperdine Straus Institute and, in 2004 after training with Dr. Robert Cialdini, I became the only attorney certified to conduct his principles of persuasion workshops. I have presented numerous one hour presentations for lawyers, bar associations and business organizations
Since 1996, I have been...
Arbitration & Mediation, IP, Patents and Trademarks
Before law school I earned an Engineering Degree which has facilitated my ADR practice which is focused on IP and technology disputes.
In addition I am an attorney Registered and specially qualified/allowed to Practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In addition I am an attorney Registered and specially qualified/allowed to Practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Landlord Tenant and Real Estate
We have a civil law practice which focuses on business transactions and litigation, including contract formation, dispute resolution and all types of real estate matters. The Principal, Michael Isaac Shokrian, is a licensed real estate broker. We provide legal counsel to many small businesses as well as mid- and larger sized businesses. Our focus is on preemptive transactional guidance for the purpose of navigating around and avoiding/preventing litigation, not moving toward it. However, we are an aggressive and full service litigation office if and when necessary. We work and associate with experienced attorneys up and down the West Coast and...
Arbitration & Mediation, Consumer and Employment
Zev J. Eigen is a labor/employment and entertainment litigator with more than a decade of substantial experience handling complex negotiations, alternative dispute resolution and general contract law. Eigen has developed a particular background in representing clients in the entertainment industry and the restaurant and hospitality industry. He previously served as Senior Counsel to Twentieth Century Fox, where he represented Fox in all facets of its relationships with the entertainment industry labor organizations such as the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild. Prior to joining Fox, Eigen worked as an associate with the law firm, Littler Mendelson,...
Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Family
EXPERTISE IN CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION
Mari Frank is an attorney, mediator, Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), author, professor, and radio show host in private practice in California and Florida. She worked in the District Attorney’s Office, practiced insurance defense law, and had a general civil law practice. She has successfully resolved thousands of disputes as a neutral since 1985.
Ms. Frank was the founding President of the Orange County Chapter of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution-Orange County, California. She served for three years as founding Chair of the State Bar of California Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee She is a...
Arbitration & Mediation, Appeals, Business and Communications
John A. Case, Jr. is a Los Angeles business lawyer and an active member of the State Bar of California since 1986. He is a graduate of Columbia University, Stanford Law School, and the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. After practicing with major law firms such as O'Melveny & Myers and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, he opened his own law office in 1996. He has guided clients through all kinds of business problems and disputes for more than 30 years.
Arbitration & Mediation, Appeals, Insurance Defense and Legal Malpractice
Arbitration & Mediation
Layn R. Phillips, founder of Phillips ADR Enterprises (PADRE), is a former U.S. Attorney and U.S. District Judge. Appointed at age 35 by President Reagan, he presided over 140+ trials in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas, and sat by designation on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Earlier, Judge Phillips served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, and at age 31, was nominated as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. After leaving the bench, he spent 23 years at Irell & Manella, focusing on complex civil litigation, internal investigations, and alternative dispute resolution.
He later founded PADRE, specializing...
Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
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Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Collections and Consumer
James graduated from California State University Northridge with honors and a B.A. in Electronic Media Management. He received his Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the State of California and the State of New Jersey.
After admission to the State Bar of California, James served as General Counsel for various entities. James
has significant knowledge in the development and implementation of legal protocols and processes geared for the development of small to medium sized businesses. His experience in business law, employment law, tax,
contracts, acquisitions, risk prevention and general...
Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
Arbitration & Mediation, DUI & DWI, Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
Arbitration & Mediation, Appeals, Divorce and Family
Breanna Cornwall is the firm’s founder and managing attorney. Since going into private practice, she has focused on representing clients involved in family law matters including divorce, military divorce, child custody, and spousal support. She also represents clients in obtaining (and defending against) domestic violence restraining orders and civil restraining orders such as civil harassment restraining orders, workplace violence restraining orders, and private postsecondary school violence restraining orders.
Prior to starting her own firm, she had an extensive background as a business owner and entrepreneur. She started and managed a staffing agency and a real estate brokerage. Her business and...
Prior to starting her own firm, she had an extensive background as a business owner and entrepreneur. She started and managed a staffing agency and a real estate brokerage. Her business and...
Arbitration & Mediation, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Divorce and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Landlord Tenant and Real Estate
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Health Care and IP
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Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Construction and DUI & DWI
Our driving belief is based on old-fashioned advocacy. We are a small Westlake Village-based firm and recognize the importance of being accessible to our clients. We believe in personal attention, and our clients have direct, responsive contact with us. At the Law Offices of Richard J. Uss, we take particular pride in the quality of service that our clients receive. We believe in forming relationships.
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Real Estate and Stockbroker Fraud
Arbitration & Mediation and Real Estate
Karen Matcke Crosby Attorney / Mediator P.C. 35+ years of legal practice and 15+ years as a mediator.
WHY MEDIATION CAN BE SUPERIOR TO COURT
By Karen Matcke Crosby (2021)
Court litigation exposes parties to great public exposure, expense and long delays in court proceedings. Litigants have little or no control over the procedural process. How a dispute arose in the first place, is given short shrift, failing to consider the parties’ intentions, experience in negotiations (or lack thereof), personality, ego, culture, norms, morals, bullying, customs, or values. What is heard in court is the representing attorney’s version of his client’s legal...
Arbitration & Mediation
Arbitration & Mediation, Employment and Real Estate
Arbitration & Mediation, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Real Estate
Arbitration & Mediation, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Elder
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
Arbitration & Mediation, Business and IP
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Products Liability and Real Estate
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Divorce and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Divorce and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Legal Malpractice and Securities
Seth Aronson joined Phillips ADR in 2023, mediating disputes up to ten figures in securities, consumer class actions, privacy, false claims, shareholder derivative, antitrust, RMBS fraud, and complex litigation. He serves on the ADR panel for the U.S. District Court, Central District of California.
Retiring from O’Melveny & Myers LLP in 2022 after 40 years as a trial and appellate lawyer, Seth was managing partner of O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office and chaired its Securities Litigation practice. Ranked by Chambers USA for 20 years, he was named California Securities Litigation Attorney of the Year twice by Benchmark Litigation, a “Top 100 Lawyer”...
Arbitration & Mediation
Arbitration & Mediation
Margaret B. Seymour, a retired U.S. District Judge (District of South Carolina, 1998–2022), was the first African American woman federal judge and chief federal judge in South Carolina. She served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge (1996–1998) before her district court appointment.
Over 26 years, Judge Seymour presided over complex securities, contract, class action, commercial, banking, bankruptcy, employment, discrimination, and environmental cases, as well as criminal matters like drug conspiracies, white-collar crime, and Ponzi schemes. She sat by designation on the Fourth Circuit and participated in two three-judge-panel redistricting cases. She served twice on the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of...
Arbitration & Mediation, Consumer, Divorce and Family
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