Malcolm Sher, Mediator, based in Walnut Creek, California.

Mediation

Med-Arb

Early Neutral Evaluation

Fact Finding

Special Master

Mediation Training/CLE

Serving the following Counties:
Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, Yolo

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Commercial/Business [ 1 ]*

Condominiums

Construction [ 2 ]*

Consumer Fraud

Contract Disputes [ 1 ]*

Cross Cultural [ 1 ]*

Debt/Foreclosure

Employment

Family Businesses

Insurance [ 1 ]*

Landlord/Tenant

Legal Malpractice

Libel & Slander

Non-profit Organizations

Partnerships

Personal Injury

Premises Liability

Probate [ 3 ]*

Product Liability

Professional Fees

Professional Liability

Professional Malpractice

Professional Negligence

Real Estate [ 10 ]*

Torts

Trusts / Estates

Wrongful Death

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Malcolm Sher has experience in settling the following family law matters:

Biographical Notes:

For forty years I practiced law in California and the United Kingdom before transitioning to full-time mediation and arbitration in 2009. I have represented plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of real estate, landlord/tenant, business, commercial and partnership, probate, trust and common law/same-sex property disputes, professional liability claims against brokers, attorneys and CPAs, employment, and personal injury disputes.

I have learned that litigation is time-consuming, unpredictable, expensive and stressful for clients, witnesses, even jurors and is an inefficient way of resolving disputes.

Therefore, I developed a successful full-time mediation and arbitration practice helping other lawyers and their clients curtail or even avoid litigation completely by shaping creative solutions to their disputes through the mediative process and through arbitration.

With well over one hundred hours of formal mediation and arbitration training, I use my negotiating skills and years of legal and life experiences both here and abroad in bringing real value to the process of dispute resolution. I recognize the intensely personal interests and cultural differences that often underlie many disputes and that can get in the way of resolving them.

I believe that if disputants are treated with dignity and respect and their points of view heard, they are empowered to fashion their own "win-win" solutions. As a mediator, I have a reputation for treating counsel and clients with respect, courtesy and care, which I believe promotes the trust and confidence a successful mediator must earn. In addition to being a "good listener," and facilitator, I am willing to be "evaluative" if the parties so wish, since I believe that, in choosing a mediator, counsel and clients look for someone who is willing and able to explore the "what-ifs" and identify risks and benefits while gently encouraging the parties to face reality.

I am dedicated to walking the extra mile to achieve an environment where options can be identified, creative solutions reached and cases settled.

ADR Training and Teaching:
Steven Rosenberg, "Mediation Training", (2002) and "Advanced Mediation Training", (2003); multiple seminars and workshops given by ADRNC, Hastings Center for Dispute Resolution and American Arbitration Association, International Academy of Mediators at Harvard University, (April 2006), arbitration training courses and seminars given by AAA, Contra Costa, Alameda and San Francisco Bar Associations and State Bar of California.

Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators:
Contra Costa, Alameda, San Mateo, San Francisco, Sonoma, Solano and Yolo Counties.

Bar Admissions:
California State Bar, 1976; U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of California, 1976; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, 1990; Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of England and Wales, 1972.

Publications:
"Real Property Remedies Practice" (CEB) annual Supplement 1985-2002; Co-authorof ADR section, 2005, 2011.

Rates: $400 per hour for two parties and $450 per hour for three or more parties, split equally. This includes study time and pre-mediation telephone conferences with counsel. There is a six hour minimum charge for the mediation session itself. I honor the "free time" requirements of court ADR programs I do not charge administrative fees, believing that parties' financial resources should be spent to facilitate productive negotiations.

Payment: It is anticipated that a deposit for 6 hours of time will be sent no later than 72 hours prior to the first mediation session and that mediation briefs will be submitted at the same time.

Cancellation Policy: A 6 hour minimum will be charged for mediation sessions cancelled on less than 48 hours notice.

AVAILABILITY & BOOKING INFORMATION

Calendar Last Updated: 25 Apr 12

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Malcolm Sher's scheduling staff
(malcolm@sher4mediatedsolutions.com)