Zela Claiborne

Full-time neutralSINCE 1998 specializing in the resolution of complex domestic and international business disputes including Business and Commercial, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Construction, Employment, Energy, Environmental, Health Care, Insurance, and Professional Liability. See www.jamsadr.com/Claiborne for a list of cases handled.

Experience

Full-time neutral specializing in the resolution of domestic and international disputes including Business and Commercial, Intellectual Property, Real Estate and Construction matters, Employment, Energy, Environmental, Health Care, Insurance, Professional Liability, and International. Please see detailed information about each of these areas, including representative cases, at www.jamsadr.com/Claiborne. MORE INFORMATION available from Kathleen Hanley, Case Manager, KHanley@jamsadr.com. As attorney, specialized in commercial and construction litigation. Jury trial experience. Extensive experience in mediation and arbitration as both advocate and neutral. Judge pro tem, San Francisco Superior Court. Visiting speaker at Stanford Law School, University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and Hastings College of the Law. Member of Mediation Panel, US District Court, Northern District. JAMS panelist since 2008; member of CPR panel, ICC;, AAA and ICDR panels of mediators and arbitrators since 1991. Former member of AAA Board of Directors. Alternative Dispute Resolution Experience: Experienced mediator for a variety of matters, including complex, multi-party cases, ranging in value up to many millions of dollars. Successful handling of international mediations. Has mediated hundreds of cases with a high settlement rate. Has served as an arbitrator-- as sole arbitrator, chair of a panel, or panel member--on hundreds of matters since 1991. Frequently speaks and writes nationally about ADR, and has been on the faculty for various national mediator and arbitrator training programs.

Work History

May 2008 to present: on JAMS arbitration and mediation panels. 1998-2008, full-time independent Mediator, Arbitrator, and Special Master; 1982-1998, General Partner/ Associate, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon LLP.

Cases

Please see bios at www.jamsadr.com/Claiborne for descriptions of representative cases handled, both arbitrations and mediations .

Training

Attended numerous JAMS arbitrator training sessions, April 2008 to present. Served as faculty for in-house JAMS training sessions on arbitration best practices, 2009 to present. Faculty, USC/JAMS Advanced Professional Arbitration Institute, 2016 Co-Chair and Faculty, ABA Arbitration Institute, 2009-2014.

License(s)

CA Bar, 1982 Faculty, ABA Arbitration Institute, San Francisco, 2009. Faculty, ABA Arbitration Institute, Washington D. C., 2010. Faculty and Co-Chair, ABA Arbitration Institute, Los Angeles, 2011; Philadelphia 2012; Washington D.C. 2014. Faculty, USC/JAMS Advanced Professional Arbitration Institute, 2016-2017 AAA trainings: AAA Arbitrator Update, 2006; faculty, AAA Neutrals Conference, 2005; AAA arbitrator Update, 2005 & 2001; International Arbitration Symposium, 2004; Neutrals Conference, 2003; Safeguarding, Deciding & Writing Awards, 2003; Advanced Case Management Issues, 2002; Forum on International ADR, 2002; Presenter, AAA Mediation Conference Workshop, Chicago, 9/00; AAA International Training, San Francisco, 3/00; Presenter, AAA National Mediator Conference, Denver, 3/00; AAA Board Retreat on Business ADR, 4/99; Commercial Mediator Training, New York, 11/97; Large and Complex Case Training, Black Point, Maine, 9/97; Faculty, Construction Arbitrator Training, Jackson Hole, ’97; Faculty, National Construction Arbitrator Training, 1996-1997; Faculty, National Arbitrator Training, Boston, 8/96; Large and Complex Case Mediator Training, 10/94; Large and Complex Case Arbitrator Training, 5/94; Arbitrator Training, San Francisco, 11/91.

Education

UC Berkeley Law JD 1982

Publications

See list at www.jamsadr.com/claiborne Profile: ’The Experience Curve’ Daily JOURNAL 2015. Available on JAMS bio.

Awards

Recognized as a Super Lawyer in ADR, 2005-2017; listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2008-2017; East Bay’s Best; ’Who’s Who Legal’ California. Judge pro tem. IMI Certified mediator.

Panels

JAMS, CPR , DPR Hawaii, ICC

Associations

.Panelist : JAMS (since 2008); International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) and CPR China panel ; DPR (Hawaii). Former member AAA Board of Directors; AAA mediation and arbitration panels including large and complex case panels and ICDR

Miscellaneous

College of Commercial Arbitrators (Board of Directors); American College of Construction Lawyers (former); Governing Committee of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry (former). IMI CERTIFIED.