Judge Bond has over twenty years of dispute resolution experience as a sitting judge and joined JAMS immediately following her retirement from the Sacramento Superior Court. Since joining JAMS in 2000, she is involved in both mediations and arbitrations. Her arbitrations have involved complex civil litigation often involving multi-party cases. As a trial judge, she has presided over numerous complex civil court trials and writ adjudications which required written determination of complex legal and factual issues involving virtually all areas of civil litigation. Judge Bond is committed to providing an impartial hearing to all parties and timely and reasoned decisions based on the evidence and the law.
Agricultural
Attorney fee disputes
Business and contractual dispute litigation
Construction defect, contract delay
Partnership dissolutions
Estate/probate
Elder abuse
Employment: wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, defamation, and wage and hour
Federal Employees Labor Act (FELA) cases
Fraud, misappropriation, trade secrets, and unfair competition
Gas and oil
Insurance coverage, bad faith, and fee disputes\
Managed healthcare: fees for services, provider vs. provider, hospital disputes, reimbursements
Medical, dental, and legal professional negligence
Personal injury and wrongful death
Real estate contract and disclosure issue
Toxic hazards, environmental issues, and CEQA, CERCLA challenges
Representative Matters
- Adjudication of environmental impacts and sufficiency of a county general plan, as well as decisions regarding other environmental and toxic hazards
- Agricultural dispute involving sale and distribution of land and estate issues
- Issues of elder abuse and false imprisonment
- Issues relating to insurance coverage, scope and meaning of policy language and exclusions in cases involving financial transactions, pollution and fire damage
- Issues relating to managed healthcare, billing practices, and scope of insurance coverage and fees for services
- Issues relating to apportionment of attorneys fees between counsel
- Issues relating to unfair competition, trade secrets, and misappropriation of ideas, designs, customer lists and products
- Issues with respect to contract interpretation, damages, restitution and specific performance in business disputes
- The interpretation, effect and scope of a professional partnership agreement which had implications for numerous similar entities statewide. Decision affirmed on appeal
