CLAYTON E. CLEMENT, ESQ.

ADR EXPERIENCE AND SPECIALITIES

Mr. Clement has been actively engaged in ADR for more than 15 years, conducting many mediations and arbitrations in the areas of business, real estate, construction, contract and professional liability. He has served as settlement judge pro-tem and has been appointed pro-tem trial judge in court and jury cases for the Sonoma County Superior Court.

Mr. Clement takes an active, business-like approach to his ADR practice and brings an astute understanding of the underlying issues, while being sensitive to the litigants' needs, in order to bring about a satisfactory resolution.

BACKGROUND

Clayton Clement is the senior partner of Clement, Fitzpatrick & Kenworthy, and one of the preeminent business litigators in the North Bay. He has broad business litigation experience, including cases involving real estate, oil and gas, contract, professional liability and unfair business practice. Mr. Clement has handled billion-dollar disputes over the value of geothermal properties, refineries, large apartment houses, shopping centers, residential property, ranches, development property and commercial property. He has represented wineries, grape growers and wine distributors in transactions and litigation, including arbitrations and mediations. He has handled numerous jury and court trials as well as arbitrations and mediations for both plaintiffs and defendants.

MEMBERSHIPS & SPECIAL HONORS

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; Member, American Board of Trial Advocates; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; and ABA Committee on Condemnation Law. Instructor, Hastings College of Trial Advocacy (Business Litigation); Western States Petroleum Assn. Property Tax Seminar; Sonoma State University; and Santa Rosa Junior College - Real Estate Law.

EDUCATION

J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

AB with honors, University of the Pacific