John Bates, Jr., Esq. has been practicing law since 1974 and mediating full time since 1991. Having litigated many complicated matters, including class actions, when he was a litigation partner at Cooley Godward in San Francisco, John is comfortable mediating large, complex, multi-party disputes. He splits his time between his family residences in Northern California and Hawaii.
Representative Mediations
- Class action consumer case involving airbags in vehicles, settlement
- Class action consumer dispute involving condition of 400,000 vehicles, settlement
- Class action involving disability access to college in California, settlement
- Class action toxic contamination dispute in Alabama, multi-million dollar settlement
- Class action wage and hour case in California, multi-million dollar settlement
- Class action business disputes in Missouri, $100 million settlement
- Class action employment dispute in Idaho, multi-million dollar settlement
- Class action invasion of privacy case in California, multi-million dollar settlement
- Environmental contamination dispute in California, multi-million dollar settlement
- Mass medical malpractice claims in Illinois and New York, $2 million settlement
- Class action deceptive advertising in California