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Hon. Demetrios P. Agretelis (Ret.)

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My approach to ADR is to be patient, to listen carefully to the parties, to help them identify what is actually in their best interest - especially with creative "outside the box" suggestions- and to help them arrive at a mutually acceptable agreement.

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Cindy Cravalho
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1255 Treat Blvd.
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Walnut Creek, CA 94597
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Hon. Demetrios P. Agretelis (Ret.) is widely respected for his fairness, tenacity, and efficiency in successfully resolving even the most complex cases. His twenty years on the Alameda County Superior Court, as well as his six years as a full time ADR practitioner, have provided Judge Agretelis with varied background in a wide range of disputes, as well as the practical experience to handle anything from simple to complex matters.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

  • Conducted mediations, arbitrations, trials, case management and settlement conferences and acted as discovery referee in a wide variety of areas including:
    • Class actions
    • Complex business/commercial
    • Employment discrimination and wrongful termination
    • Fraud
    • Insurance coverage and bad faith
    • Partnership dissolutions
    • Personal injury
    • Product liability
    • Professional liability (legal and medical)
    • Public entity construction
    • Real property
    • Securities fraud
    • Trust contests
    • Will contests
    • Wrongful death

Representative Matters

  • Alleged medical malpractice resulting in wrongful death
  • Dispute between attorneys regarding division of fees and alleged misappropriation of professional opportunities
  • Real estate option to purchase dispute between governmental entity and private property
  • Dispute between homeowners association regarding eminent domain and alleged nuisance and trespass caused by construction project
  • Employment disputes regarding racial and gender discrimination and wrongful termination
  • Insurance coverage disputes regarding assignment of liability among multiple insurers for wrongful death
  • Dispute between inventor and manufacturer about the terms of a patent assignment and manufacturer’s suppression of product in the market

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

  • Trial Judge of the Year, Consumer Attorneys of California, 1998
  • Trial Judge of the Year, Alameda-Contra Costa County Trial Lawyers Association, 1996
  • Faculty, California Center for Judicial Education and Research, 1983-1992
  • Panelist, Rutter Group, Civil Law and Motion

Background and Education

  • Steven Rosenberg Private Mediation Training
  • AAA Arbitrator Training I and II
  • Judge, Alameda County Superior Court, 1979-1999; (Civil Jury and Non-Jury Trial Judge, 1992-1999; Presiding Judge, 1990-1991; Supervising Judge, Southern Division and Civil Law and Motion Judge, 1988-1989; Family Law Judge, 1982-1987; Criminal Law Judge, 1979-1981)
  • Private Practice, Berkeley and Oakland, 1965-1979
  • Law Clerk, Hon. Alfonso J. Zirpoli, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1964-1965
  • L.L.B., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, 1964
  • B.A., with honors in Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, 1960