Hon. John A. Flaherty (Ret.) served over 20 years on the Santa Clara County Superior Court before joining JAMS. He applies his extensive experience from the bench toward the resolution of a variety of cases. Judge Flaherty's expertise, persistence, and patience have made him an accomplished mediator, arbitrator, and discovery referee.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
- Business/commercial transactions
- Complex construction defect
- Construction accident
- Employment
- Environmental
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Personal injury
- Product liability
- Real estate
- Toxic tort
Representative Matters
- Mediated and arbitrated multi-million dollar securities, business, and real estate disputes
- Mediated and resolved an estate matter where beneficiaries disputed the loan and gift of real property
- Successfully mediated several multi-million dollar toxic tort disputes
- Served as court-appointed referee on many high-profile cases involving trade secrets and class action litigation
- Mediated and settled a $12 million catastrophic personal injury case involving an accident between a school bus and a pedestrian rendered quadriplegic as a result
- Successfully mediated many business and employment cases
- Successfully mediated numerous employment disputes involving allegations of discrimination, wrongful termination, theft of trade secrets and employee benefits issues, including ERISA
- Successfully mediated complex intellectual property dispute over the confidential coding and algorithms for software that provides an automated valuation model for real estate appraisals; the case involved complex issues of patent infringement and theft of trade secrets
- Successfully resolved breach of contract and fiduciary duty disputes related to real estate loans arising from the financial crisis and recession