GARY A. WEINER, ESQ.

ADR EXPERIENCE & SPECIALITIES

Gary A. Weiner serves as mediator and as arbitrator, as a negotiation coach, collaborative lawyer and settlement counsel, as special master and referee, as mediatior and mediation advocacy trainer, facilitator and dispute resolution systems design consultant. Mr. Weiner was the Director of the Sonoma County Superior Court office of Alternative Dispute Resolution from its inception through June 2004. For 4 1/2 years, he called the Case Management Conference calendar in every civil case in the Court and heard settlement conferences in innumerable cases. From the most complex construction defect, intellectual property and personal injury matters to the most intractable easement disputes to the simplest consumer collection cases, Mr. Weiner has helped counsel and their clients in literally thousands of cases get moving toward resolution.

Mr. Weiner's successful ADR practice includes resolving disputes in many areas of the law, i.e., hospital and healthcare issues, real property, family law, commercial, medical & legal malpractice, toxic torts, banking, employment, sexual harassment, discrimination, personal injury, family transactional disputes, as well as cohabitation arrangements and complex probate matters.

Hailed as a "pioneer" in bringing collaborative problem solving to difficult issues of broad public policy in Sonoma County, Mr. Weiner has the ability to recognize and adapt his ADR technique to provide the right kind of process for the parties. Equally comfortable with facilitation and evaluation, collaborative problem solving and adjudication, Mr. Weiner is an exceptionally versatile dispute resolution practitioner.

BACKGROUND

Mr. Weiner was in private practice as a sole practitioner beginning in 1984. His law practice included litigation of personal injury claims, environmental, commercial, construction, employment and real estate disputes and consultations with businesses, communities and individuals on a wide range of subjects from lease negotiations to estate planning and land use issues.

SPECIAL TRAINING

Arbitration training at Pepperdine University's School of Dispute Resolution; Lincoln Institute: Mediation of Land Use Disputes; Humboldt State University - Complex Public and Environmental Disputes; Advanced Healthcare Mediation Workshops - Harvard University Program on Negotiation through SPIDR; Certified Ethics instructor; Transformative Mediation of Employment Disputes for the U.S. Postal Service; Certified U.S. Postal Service Mediator

MEMBERSHIPS & CREDENTIALS

President of the Bd. of Directors of the North Bay Consensus Council; Appointed Member of ADR Committee of the State Bar of California; Adjunct Professor of Law at the Hastings College Center for Negotition and Dispute Resolution; Former Chair of the Sonoma County Bar Assoc. ADR Section; Panelist, First District Court of Appeals Mediation Panel; Kaiser Medical Negligence Arbitration Panel; Sonoma County Bar Assoc. Mediation and Arbitration Referral Service (MARS); Appointed Judge Pro-Tem and Discovery Referee for complex and multiple party lawsuits; Member, California Dispute Resolution Council, the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution.

EDUCATION

Licensed to practice law in California and U.S. District Court; B.A., Cornell University