Business/Commercial Dispute Resolution Experience...

Ms. Warren has extensive experience in the resolution and adjudication of complex and simple business and commercial disputes.  Ms. Warren's experience includes 18 years as a litigator handling business disputes of all sizes, including multi-jurisdictional class actions.  During her eight years as a full time panelist at JAMS, she has handled a large number of arbitrations and mediations involving multi-party complex business disputes, as well as smaller, two party business disputes.

Ms. Warren brings a strong analytical focus and business law background to her arbitrations and mediations.  She has a high resolution rate in mediations and ensures a fair and efficient hearing process when conducting arbitrations.  Ms. Warren is well trained in all aspects of dispute resolution, and the feedback from those who have engaged her services reflect the high quality of service she offers.

Ms. Warren is a frequent speaker on topics relating to the resolution of business disputes.  She has published a number of articles in the area.  Ms. Warren is based in Southern California and offers her services on a national basis.

Representative Matters:

• Attorney fee disputes
• Bad faith insurance claims
• Banking (see separate banking biography)
• Breach of fiduciary duty/fraud
• Business & Professions Code 17200 claims
• Business defamation
• Consumer Legal Remedies Act
• Contractual disputes
• Dissolution of business/partnership
• Distributorship agreements
• Forgeries
• Insurance coverage
• Joint venture agreements
• Lending disputes
• Mismanagement of trust assets
• Purchase and sale agreements
• Real Estate (see separate real property biography)
• Securities (see separate securities biography)
• Software/hardware agreements
• Trade secret agreements
• Unfair competition

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities:

• Bar Associations of Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties (Employment, Real Estate, and ADR section member).  She has attained the advanced practitioner certificate from the ADR section of the San Luis Obispo Bar Association.
• Medication Panels:  NASD panel member, Santa Barbara CADRE program, Ventura County Superior Court Mediation Panel.

Background and Education:

• 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

References
Email Ms. Warren to request a list of recent references at n.warren@verizon.net

JAMS Website:  http://jamsadr.com/