Arbitration Experience

Ms. Warren has extensive experience arbitrating business, banking, securities, partnership, real property, employment, personal injury, and fee disputes as a single arbitrator and as a member of an arbitration panel. She has also presided as a privately compensated temporary judge pursuant to California Rule of Court 244 and provided advisory opinions. She offers a well defined arbitration process appropriate to the scope of the dispute and the needs of the parties. Ms. Warren's arbitration awards are well reasoned and issued promptly after the conclusion of the hearing.

Representative arbitrations and temporary judge trials include the following.

• Business/Banking/Securities/Partnership
  • Breach of contract claim by one oil company against another claiming failure to follow well abandonment schedules
  • Claim exceeding $5 million by prominent movie director against large broker/dealer firm for failure to supervise, churning, and unauthorized trading (including trading on margin)
  • Claims for competing security interests in large equipment
  • Claim by a textile manufacturer against wholesaler for breach of contract
  • Breach of contract in connection with sale of an automobile dealership
  • Claim for breach of contract in connection with alleged default on loan guarantee agreement
  • Suit to recover alleged damages incurred when Bank offset sums due it against claimant's deposit accounts
  • Claims and counterclaims relating to alleged fraudulent charges on bank credit card account
  • Allegations of fraud and breach of contract in connection with respondent's use of stock as payment for securities offered pursuant to confidential offering memorandum
  • Claim for damages for breach of equipment leasing agreement
  • Dissolution of real estate asset management partnership
  • Breach of contract claim by Human Resources Consulting firm against employer client
• Class Actions
  • Civil Rights: Ms. Warren currently serves as one of the lead adjudicators for more than 25,000 individual cases in the African American Farmers nationwide class action settlement
  • Special Rates Settlement Adjudication: Ms. Warren adjudicated and supervised adjudication of hundreds of claims arising out of the settlement of the National Treasury Employee Union's case against the government for failure to fully pay special salary rate federal employees
• Employment
  • Claims and counterclaims by and against doctor for breach of employment contract, confidentiality and trade secret agreement, and interference with prospective advantage
  • Claim by employee of large movie producer for breach of written employment agreement
  • Claim by law firm against terminated lawyer for interference with contract, breach of loyalty, and recovery of fees
  • Claim against health care provider employer for wrongful termination of employment based on public policy violation and intentional infliction of emotional distress
  • Claim against title company employer for fraudulent inducement of employment, wrongful termination in violation of public policy, and emotional distress damages
  • Individual adjudication of claims included in class action wage and hour suit against athletic shoe retailer
• Fee Disputes
  • Dispute between accountant and client regarding amount of fees to be charged in connection with accounting services rendered
  • Dispute between attorney and client regarding amount of fees incurred in child custody action
• Real Property
  • Suit by homeowner association against developer/owner of non-annexed property to determine timing and reasonableness of fee assessments
  • Suit against owner of adjoining property for declaration of easement created through adverse possession
  • Misrepresentation/failure to disclose by buyer against seller and real estate brokers in connection with sale of residential real estate
  • Dispute regarding value of claim against insurer for destruction of real property
  • Claim for return of good faith deposit in connection with aborted sale of real estate
  • Claim against real estate broker for failure to adequately represent buyer in connection with purchase of real property
  • Claim by tenant against landlord for breach of lease agreement in connection with high-end real property lease
  • Claim by landlord against NBA basketball player tenant for damage to real property during tenancy

• Bar Associations of Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties (Employment, Real Estate, and ADR section member).
• Mediation Panels: NASD panel member, Santa Barbara CADRE program, Ventura County Superior Court Mediation Panel

• Vice President and Senior Litigation Counsel, Great Western Bank (subsequently acquired by Washington Mutual) handling local and national cases in employment, securities, banking, real estate, personal injury, and class actions, 1985-1997
• Litigation Counsel, Bank of America, 1980-1985
• J.D., cum laude , Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 1980
• B.S., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1973