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Richard Chernick, Esq.

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Los Angeles ADR Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2011

Recognized as a Best Lawyer, Alternative Dispute Resolution Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2012

Recognized as a Best Lawyer, Southern California's Best Lawyers, 2012

Selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2010-2012

Recognized as a Top California Neutral, Daily Journal, 2003, 2006-2010, and 2012

Recognized as One of the 500 Leading Judges in America, Lawdragon Magazine, 2006

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Theresa ("T.C.") Canett
JAMS
707 Wilshire Blvd.
46th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
213-253-9706 Phone
213-620-0100 Fax
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Richard Chernick, Esq., Vice President and Managing Director of JAMS' Arbitration Practice, is a nationally recognized expert in the resolution of complex and multi-party matters. Mr. Chernick has conducted hundreds of large and complex arbitrations and mediations employing various rules and before all major administering institutions, both nationally and internationally.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

  • Mediator and arbitrator of complex disputes including commercial, real property, employment, entertainment, intellectual property, technology, construction, and public law matters, full time since 1994
  • Frequently serves as chair of tripartite panels of arbitrators or as party-appointed arbitrator
  • Consultant on dispute resolution issues, including clause drafting and dispute system design
  • ABA's Advisor to the drafting committee for the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act

Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

  • Los Angeles Mediation Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2013
  • Los Angeles ADR Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2011
  • Recognized as a leader among world's commercial arbitration specialists, Global Arbitration Review, 2013
  • Recognized as a Best Lawyer, Alternative Dispute Resolution Category, Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2012
  • Recognized as a Best Lawyer, Southern California's Best Lawyers, 2012
  • Selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2010-2012
  • Recognized as a leading practitioner, Alternative Dispute Resolution Category, Who's Who Legal: California, 2009
  • Recognized as a Top 50 California Neutral, Daily Journal, 2003, 2009, 2010, and 2012 
  • Recognized as a Top 40 California Neutral, Daily Journal, 2007 and 2008
  • Selected as an entertainment law "Power Mediator," Hollywood Reporter, 2007 
  • Recognized as a Top 30 California Neutral, Daily Journal, 2006
  • Recognized as One of the 500 Leading Judges in America, Lawdragon Magazine, 2006
  • Peacemaker of the Year, Southern California Mediation Association, 1999
  • Griffin Bell Volunteer Service Award, Dispute Resolution Services, 1994
  • Bernard E. Witkin Amicus Curiae Award, California Judicial Council, 1994
  • Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Responsible Use of ADR, American Arbitration Association, 1993
  • Presidential Award, Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, 1993
  • Legal Services Leadership Award, Western Center on Law and Poverty, 1993
  • Norma Zarky Memorial Award, Beverly Hills Bar Foundation, 1991
  • Board member: California Dispute Resolution Council; Western Justice Center
  • Former Chair of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section and of its Arbitration Committee
  • Founding President of the College of Commercial Arbitrators
  • Founding Chair of the ADR Committee of the State Bar of California
  • Past president, Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and past Chairman of the Board of Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., the dispute resolution program of the Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • Co-presenter, "Drafting and Enforcing Effective ADR Provisions," State Bar of California 84th Annual Meeting, 2011
  • Author or co-author of leading texts on ADR, Employment ADR, and international arbitration and mediation; frequent trainer and lecturer on arbitration and mediation topics. Author of monthly ADR Practitioner column in Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal
  • Received detailed training in CLE Workshop “Net Profits and New Media: The Future of Entertainment Litigation”
  • Daily Journal ADR Profile, April 2009
  • Arbitrator, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre's Panel of Arbitrators

Background and Education

  • Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 1977-1994; (associate, 1971-1976); specialized in commercial litigation and domestic and international arbitration
  • Law Clerk, Donald R. Wright, Chief Justice of California, 1970-1971
  • J.D., University of Southern California (USC), 1970 (Order of the Coif, Articles Editor, S. Cal. L. Rev.)
  • A.B., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), (English), 1967
 
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