Alternative Dispute Resolution Services
: Alternative Dispute Resolution in California:
When business owners and executives assess the benefits and risks of litigation, the impact on the bottom line can be a significant issue. If a favorable, yet rapid resolution is the goal, ADR is the technique to achieve it.
SmithTrager’s attorneys have significant ADR backgrounds and the experience to evaluate and discuss options with our clients. We have participated, whether as the litigating attorneys or as neutrals in innumerable mediations and arbitrations.
Diane Smith has been an active arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association for over twenty years, she serves on the national construction and environmental arbitration and mediation panels for the American Arbitration Association and the Center for Public Resources, Institute for Dispute Resolution. Laurel E. Adcock has served as a court appointed mediator and is on the OCBA Mandatory Fee Arbitration Committee.
SmithTrager attorneys have handled ADR disputes involving
- Environmental issues
- Construction defect cases
- Contractual disputes
- Real estate disputes
- Commercial contract disputes
- Landlord and tenant issues
- Ground leases
- Financing and security issues
- Broker commission disputes
- Tenant improvement disputes
- Title issues
- Land use planning and regulatory matters
- Unlawful detainer actions
- Commercial collections
- Judicial foreclosures on deeds of trust
- Property tax appeals
- Easements
- Eminent domain and inverse condemnation actions
- Misrepresentation and failure to disclose
- Partnership and joint venture disputes
- Disputes concerning the sale or purchase of a business
- Dissolutions of corporations and partnership
- Employment matters
- Business interruption lawsuits
- Insurance coverage litigation