Hon. Charles A. Legge (Ret.), U.S. District Judge Northern District of California, has developed a reputation for fairness and has proven ability to adjudicate and settle complex disputes involving a wide range of civil and governmental litigation issues.
Judge Legge brings a wealth of talent from his 17 years on the federal court and from his practice as a full time arbitrator and mediator with JAMS since 2001.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
- Conducted over 500 settlement conferences and mediations in all types of litigation including business, contracts, securities, intellectual property, governmental, casualty, insurance, and labor/employment, and class actions
- Particular expertise in complex business litigation and intellectual property cases
- Appointed as Special Master and Referee by several courts
- Over 150 published opinions available in the Federal Supplement and on the Internet
Representative Matters
Judge Legge has presided over more than 5,000 cases, including the following:
- Accounting and finance
- Airline disasters
- Anti-trust
- Attorneys' fees
- Banking
- Bankruptcy
- Biotechnology
- Business disputes
- Class actions
- Discovery
- Employment and labor
- Environmental disputes including EPA’s approval/disapproval of new pesticides for agriculture, Clean Water Act cases, cases involving the clean up of commercial properties, EIR’s, and environmental easements
- Finance
- Governmental
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- International disputes including anti-trust, foreign tort and maritime, patents and licensing, contracts, extradition
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Oil and gas
- Patent, intellectual property, copyright, trademark, trade secret
- Professional liability
- Securities and securities regulation
- Wage and hour