JAMS offers a respected panel of highly experienced, retired federal and superior court judges and attorney neutrals combined with a 45-year track record of successful dispute resolution. JAMS handles more than 10,000 mediations annually, including many of California’s most complex and important cases.
Complex mediations may involve disputes characterized by one or more of the following:
- A number (often large) of disputants with different goals
- A matter in which interpersonal events or other issues have impaired a rational economic resolution
- Complicated and/or novel legal issues that make it difficult to evaluate the risks and costs of litigation
- Dense subject matter and an enormous amount of documentary evidence
- Multiple jurisdictions
Our roster of more than 500 neutrals includes the state’s deepest bench of retired judges from both the Ninth Circuit Court and the California Superior Court’s complex litigation departments. Our panel also includes many of the region’s most accomplished attorney mediators, including former litigators, transactional attorneys and other eminent ADR professionals. Our panel is highly organized, well versed in state and federal laws, and has subject matter proficiency across a wide range of practice areas and industries. JAMS neutrals are known for being well prepared and are committed to successfully resolving your dispute, from early engagement with attorneys to creative problem-solving to persistent, rigorous follow-up.
As the world’s largest ADR provider, JAMS offers unparalleled services for complex case resolution, including extraordinarily skilled case managers backed by extensive administrative and settlement distribution resources. JAMS has handled thousands of complex mediations, including individual cases as well as class actions, mass torts and multidistrict-litigation (MDL), involving issues such as:
- AI and emerging technologies
- Construction, engineering and construction defect
- Employment
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
- Entertainment/Sports
- Environmental
- Health care
- Intellectual property
- Product liability
- Pharmaceuticals
- Securities
- Wage and hour and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA)
- Wildfires and other mass disasters