2010 CDRC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 Jennifer BullockPhone: 650-513-0330 x302 E-mail: jbullock@pcrcweb.org JENNIFER BULLOCK is the Executive Director of the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center in San Mateo, CA where she has been on staff for over 8 years. Jennifer's background is in community mediation including multi-party, complex situations. She has worked with city governments to design and facilitate public meetings, with businesses to provide training in communication skills for staff, and with groups of neighbors, co-workers, business professionals, community members and civic leaders to help them work through their disputes. Jennifer has also provided numerous hours of training to PCRC's volunteer mediators and facilitators. Jennifer earned a BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College in 1994 and an MA in Conflict Resolution from the McGregor School of Antioch University in 2001. Jennifer has taught an undergraduate course in conflict management at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. She is a founding member of the coordinating committee of the California Coalition for Community Mediation. |
| Richard Collier Phone: 415-433-1900 E-mail: rcollier@cwclaw.com More information coming soon... |
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Timothy Dayonot More information coming soon... |
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FREDERICK J. GLASSMAN is a founding partner of Mayer & Glassman Law Corporation in Los Angeles ; a veteran of 35 years of litigation, he now focuses his practice on resolution-oriented approaches to family law disputes. He is the President of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association. Fred has authored local and national articles and teaches courses for the UCLA Extension Department of Legal Programs on Collaborative Practice and Mediation. He continues to present his protocol for enrolling the client to collaborative practice groups throughout California . Fred has appeared on the Time Warner Public Television Shows “Changing the Face of Divorce – New Century, New Beginnings”; “What is Collaborative Law?”; and “Collaborative Practice: the Sensible, Safe and Sensitive Way to Divorce”. He is a frequent speaker and panel member for the American Bar Association Family Law and Dispute Resolution Sections annual conferences as well as the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals annual forums. California appears as the leading article for the September, 2007 issue of LexisNexis-Matthew Bender California Law Monthly. Fred wrote a feature article on collaborative practice entitled “Advocacy Redefined” for the January 2008 issue of LawDragon, a national publication. Fred serves on the Board of Directors for the California Dispute Resolution Council. He is an Official Observer to the Drafting Committee on the Uniform Collaborative Law Act for the Uniform Law Commission, and authored the article entitled “The Uniform Collaborative Law Act – Today and Tomorrow” for the Winter 2010 Family Law News – Official Publication of the State Bar of California Family Law Section. He is a recipient of the 2008 State of California Collaborative Practice Eureka Award for distinguished service. Fred has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America ® and named in Southern California ’s Best Lawyers 2009 and 2010 edition for family collaborative law and mediation. He is listed in Martindale Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers with their highest AV-rating in legal ability and ethical standards. Fred’s complete curriculum vitae is available on his website: www.mglawcorp.com. He may be reached by email at fglassman@mglawcorp.com. |
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MICHELLE KATZ is certified as a specialist in family law by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization and devotes her practice exclusively to mediation, mediation-related services, and collaborative law in family law cases. Her office is in Los Angeles, California. She is the former chair of the State Bar Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hills Bar Foundation and the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hill Bar Association. Michelle also served as a member of the ADR Consulting Group to the Board of Legal Specialization of the California State Bar. Currently, she is chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Family Committee and is on the planning committee for that section’s annual conference in April, 2007 in Washington D.C. Listed in Martindale Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, she currently carries their AV rating. She is one of the founders of the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association. Michelle has been named as a 2006 Southern California Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Los Angeles Magazine. She has trained with Gary Friedman, Esq. at the Center for Mediation in Law in Mill Valley, California, and with Roger Fisher and Robert Mnookin at Harvard, and has received training from Chip Rose and Susan Gamache/Nancy Cameron in Collaborative Law (through the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association). She is a frequent speaker on the use of alternative dispute resolution processes in family law. She can be reached at KatzMedi8s@aol.com. |
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BROHNE LAWHORNE, J.D., is a graduate of the University of California and Santa Clara University School of Law. He is the Director of Dispute Resolution Programs for the County of Santa Clara and the Ombudsman for the County Department of Family and Children’s Services and Department of Environmental Health. Brohne has been a full time practitioner of dispute resolution since 1999 and has mediated or facilitated more than 1721 disputes. Brohne teaches dispute resolution, communication, negotiation, public speaking, and writing for persuasion at several Bay Area colleges and universities including Stanford University, the University of California, the State University system, and the Monterey Institute for International Studies. Janet Martinez Phone: 650-723-4457 E-mail: janetmartinez@gmail.com More information coming soon... |
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CANDACE L. MATSON is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP. A member of the firm's Construction Law Group, she has focused her practice on construction law for over 20 years. Candace represents owners, contractors, subcontractors, lenders and others in a wide range of private and public contexts, from the preconstruction phase through project close-out, including serving as an advocate in the litigation, arbitration and/or mediation of disputes. She is a former Chair of the Construction Subsection of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, a former Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Associated General Contractors of California ("AGCC"), has served on the Los Angeles District Board of the AGCC, is a former Director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction, and a former member of the Board of Women Construction Owners and Executives (Los Angeles). Candace has published numerous articles on topics relevant to construction law and is a frequent speaker on such subjects. Candace also serves as a construction arbitrator and mediator, both privately and under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association and the Arbitration Mediation Conciliation Center. Candace has been the Treasurer of CDRC for the past three years.
HON. KEVIN MIDLAM (Ret.) was appointed to the San Diego Superior Court in 1988. Prior to his appointment, he had practiced law in San Diego, California, since his graduation from Willamette College of Law in Salem, Oregon, in 1963 and his admission to the California Bar in 1964. He retired from the Bench in 1995 and has been an active neutral with Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS), handling hundreds of arbitrations and mediations, with an emphasis on construction-related matters and complex litigation. He has been a frequent lecturer, speaker, and panelist for numerous trade and professional groups and has participated in the advanced programs on Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Strauss Institute at Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, California, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the CDRC.
MILICA NOVAKOVIC is currently the San Diego Superior Court’s Mediation Program Coordinator and Staff Member of the court’s ADR Committee. As Mediation Program Coordinator, Ms. Novakovic is working to improve and expand the court’s Civil Mediation Program and to develop mediation programs relative to other case types. After graduating from Rutgers School of Law in 1993, Ms. Novakovic practiced in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a litigation associate for firms specializing in railroad defense, product liability and medical malpractice defense. After relocating to San Diego in 1998, she joined Sempra Energy’s Litigation Division and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1999. This litigation experience also provided her with the opportunity to participate in various ADR processes, including mediations, arbitrations and settlement conferences. Ms. Novakovic began her career with the Superior Court as a Staff Attorney in 2001 and had been assigned to various independent calendar, probate, and civil departments in the Central Division, and also participated in specific court projects, including Temporary Judge Administration and a review of the Court’s administrative and operational policies and procedures. Since 2004, Ms. Novakovic has also been a volunteer mediator in victim-offender and family mediations through the Restorative Justice Mediation Program, which subsequently partnered with the Pro Bono Mediation Program of the Legal Aid Society of San Diego. David Pauker More information coming soon... |
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GERALD F. PHILLIPS is an attorney full time mediator and arbitrator with an office in Century City Los Angeles. He specializes in resolving complex litigation and entertainment controversies. He was recently listed as one of the 50 Top Neutrals in California. Gerry is a member of the Board of Director of CDRC and is on its 10th Anniversary Planning Committee. He is a founding member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. He is an adjunct professor at Pepperdine School of Law where he teaches ADR in the Entertainment Industry. He was a vice present of United Artists Corporation. Gerry is past chair of the State Bar Committee on ADR and the Beverly Hills Bar Association ADR Section. He was founder of the State Bar Business Law ADR Section. He is on the AAA, IFTA and CPR panels of arbitrators. He received the DRS 2004 Griffen Bell Volunteer Service Award. |
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MICHAEL R. POWELL is Vice President of the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) Los Angeles Regional Office. He is primarily responsible for the promotion of the AAA’s domestic and international arbitration and mediation services to the legal and business communities. In addition, he is responsible for the recruitment and training of the Los Angeles Roster of Arbitrators and Mediators. He has worked extensively with the AAA General Counsel’s office, serving as a liaison for California legislative issues. He is a frequent speaker and trainer, and has written several published articles in the Alternative Dispute Resolution field. Michael serves on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., and the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA). |
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RONALD ROSENFELD is a partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Leeds, Wender and Rosenfeld LLP. His practice includes divorce mediation, collaborative divorce, divorce litigation, living-together agreements, prenuptial agreements, and postnuptial agreements. Ron is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” and “Martindale-Hubbell Bar register of Preeminent Lawyers”, AV-rated. Ron chairs the Collaborative Law Legislation Committee. |
Karen Smith, 2010 President KAREN SMITH is the CEO of the Arbitration Mediation & Conciliation Center (AMCC), a full service dispute resolution firm headquartered in California . Karen is a twenty year veteran of the ADR industry, and enjoys providing education opportunities for lawyers, claims professionals, consumers, practitioners and students on the practical and legal considerations inherent in dispute resolution. As a facilitator, she has gained unique insight into the process from the perspectives of the parties, counsel and ADR professionals.
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Michelle Katz
Brohne Lawhorne
Hon. Kevin Midlam (ret.)
Ron Rosenfeld
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Eric van Ginkel, LL.M. is an experienced arbitrator and mediator in California and internationally. He is Assistant Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and an Adjunct Professor of Law, at Pepperdine University Law School . From 1999 until 2006, he was Counsel to the Los Angeles office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. He is a former Chair of the ADR Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Bar Association (until September 2008) and former Senior Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IBA (until December 2007). He serves as arbitrator and/or mediator for the ICC, ICDR, AAA, WIPO, ACICA, NAF and IMAC. In addition to intellectual property matters, he also has extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, hi-tech joint ventures, and licensing and distribution agreements. Mr. van Ginkel is a frequent speaker and trainer on ADR-related subjects. He has published articles, inter alia, in Mealey’s Arbitration Journal, The Journal of International Arbitration, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Journal, the IBA Newsletters for both the Arbitration and Mediation Committees, and The Negotiation Journal. He holds Juris Doctor degrees (or equivalent) from the Law Faculty of Leiden University in the |
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CATHERINE WARD, J.D. is the Lead Mediator and ADR Program Coordinator for the Lake and Mendocino Superior Court. She is also the Director of RECOURSE Mediation Services, the community based mediation non-profit organization in SonomaCounty. Since 1992, she has mediated well over 4000 community and litigated cases, as well as trained community and court connected mediators for over ten years. She is a member of the ADR Committees for the Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Superior Courts. Catherine has also received the Sonoma Superior Court’s Pro Bono Services Award and an award from the Sonoma Bar Association for her mediation work at the Sonoma Court. In addition to her work as a mediator, Catherine has spent over 30 years committed to improving access to justice for all people. Specifically, she has worked as a developer and supervisor of clinical legal programs targeted to help self-represented litigants: she started the Workers’ Rights Clinic for The Employment Law Center in San Francisco; she developed tribal court systems for the Native Americans of Nevada; she supervised students in the Community Legal Information Centeras a faculty member at Chico State University. Catherine has also taught law at JFK, Golden Gate and New College Law Schools; at St. Mary’s College and in the Sonoma State University ’s Conflict Resolution Program. |
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Hon. Alexander Williams III (ret.) More information coming soon... |
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MAURY ZILBER is a full time neutral and has over 25 years of experience as an arbitrator and mediator. He has arbitrated over 150 domestic and international commercial and consumer disputes over a wide range of business, intellectual property and public utility issues. In addition, he has mediated disputes relating to software development, rights to copyrighted designs, zoning violations and sales representation agreements. He serves as a member of a number of panels of the American Arbitration Association, FedArb, Inc. and the Mid-Continent American Power Pool, and serves on the panel of mediators for the California Court of Appeals, First Appellate District Mediation Program. He is a member of the Mediation Society of San Francisco, a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, former Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University Law School. Maury practiced business, public utility and intellectual property law with the Boston office of Nixon Peabody LLP for 35 years. He is the Immediate Past President of the California Dispute Resolution Council. More information may be found at http://www.adrresolutions.com. Maury is also a Managing Director of Maurice L. Zilber & Associates LLC, a management consultancy for professional firms. |
Maurice L. Zilber, 2010 Immediate Past President