As a full-time neutral since 2000,
Hon. Read Ambler (Ret.) is a well known mediator and arbitrator with extensive experience resolving employment disputes, including cases involving discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues, sexual harassment, and retaliation. When the resolution of an employment case involves emotional and personal issues beyond monetary claims, Judge Ambler is adept at addressing those concerns in an appropriate and effective manner. Prior to joining JAMS, Judge Ambler served 20 years on the bench, including service as Presiding Judge, Civil Law and Motion Judge, and Civil Master Settlement Conference Judge, handling numerous employment disputes.
Judge Ambler has successfully mediated and arbitrated employment matters at JAMS involving the following issues:
Representative Mediations and Arbitrations
- Claims by employee of a hazardous waste disposal company discharged after complaining about allegedly racially discriminatory compensation and other employment practices
- Case involving claims of cover-up by large metropolitan Fire Department to hide discriminatory practices against women firefighters by conspiring to lie under oath and destroy evidence during pending litigation
- Case involving a claim of retaliatory discharge of employee for whistle-blowing and sexual harassment claims against CEO
- Wrongful termination case involving allegations of misappropriation of corporate funds and breach of fiduciary duty by CEO of industrial painting company
- Wrongful termination and breach of fiduciary duty claims arising out of discharge of founder and CEO of software company with major institutional investors
- Several sexual harassment suits against major university
- Coercion claims by employee who signed separation agreement and release
- Dispute over stock options and severance benefits of fired executive
- Ethnic discrimination claims arising out of termination of car salesman
- FEHA claims by allegedly disabled employee who was terminated
- FEHA discrimination and retaliation claims by technical marketing manager
- Gender discrimination claims by three laid off female employees
- Sexual harassment claims by graduate student against university professor; the student created dozens of false emails implicating the defendant which resulted in crime-fraud exception rulings
- Wrongful termination claim by bank president against investment bank he helped found
- Wrongful termination claim by founder and CEO of software company
- Wrongful termination claim by VP of international credit card company
- Dispute between senior chip architect and fab-less developer and producer of GPS integrated circuits
- Wrongful termination and fraud claims arising out of discharge of 49% shareholder by 51% shareholder in large national trade show exhibit company
- Wrongful termination claim by bank president against investment bank he helped found
- Wrongful termination involving failure to accommodate and retaliation claims against large residential real estate developer by sales manager sexually assaulted at work by a third party
- Wrongful termination involving whistle-blowing claims by founder of internet start-up
