Richard Chernick, Vice President and Managing Director of JAMS' Arbitration Practice, is a nationally recognized expert in the resolution of complex and multi-party matters.
Representative Arbitrations
- ADA claim by warehouse employee of blood processing company
- ADEA claim by employee of blood processing business
- Claim against agricultural employers by multi-employer pension trust under ERISA
- Claim that executive's demotion was improper in connection with alleged interference in sexual harassment investigation
- Construction defect claims (residential; shopping center; public works; hotel)
- Contract and billing disputes between hospital and contract emergency room group (med-arb)
- Contractual (partnership) dispute between doctor and medical group
- Contractual and billing disputes between hospitals and medical insurers (various)
- Contractual dispute between blood products company and European distributor (ICC; tripartite)
- Contractual dispute between medical billing company and medical group
- Coverage dispute regarding malpractice/wrongful death claim between doctor and mutual insurer (tripartite; chairman)
- Disposition of a large contingent fee between present and former partners of a law firm
- Dispute between developer of convenience center and restaurant complex and general contractor
- Dispute between excavation subcontractor and prime contractor on large public works project (tripartite)
- Dispute between international partners of film production and distribution business
- Dispute between major electrical contractor and estimator (SFO expansion)
- Dispute between professional sports teams involving a player trade
- Dispute between residential real property developer and landscape contractor
- Dispute between school district and prime and subcontractors regarding construction of middle school
- Dispute over the terms of a major shopping center lease and related damage claims
- Disputes between competing CLEC and ILEC under Telecommunications Act of 1996 Interconnection dispute between regional and national carriers
- Dissolution and post-dissolution trademark and contractual claims among members of musical group
- Dissolution of a family partnership operating a large paper distribution business (tripartite)
- Dissolution of medical partnership and related medical testing company
- Dissolution of real estate limited partnership including valuation of residential real property holdings
- Dissolution of technology joint venture (tripartite) (see Ajida Technologies, Inc. v. Roos Instruments, Inc., 87 Cal. App. 4th 534 (2001))
- Fraud claim involving the sale of a 205-unit apartment house (AAA; sole arbitrator)
- Homeowner Association dispute with Developer (construction defect issues)
- Homeowners Association dispute with Management Company (contractual and management issues)
- Hostile work environment, sexual harassment and age discrimination claim by architecture school administrator against school and Dean
- Hotel management dispute
- Insurance policy benefits disputes (definition of coverage); experimental/appropriate treatments/medical necessity
- International arbitration of claims of U.S. pilots of non-U.S. airline regarding taxation of foreign-based earnings and alleged recruitment fraud
- International licensing dispute in winter sports industry
- Legal malpractice and fee dispute between former client and law firm in multi-million dollar family law representation
- Medical billing disputes involving insurance coverage issues
- Mobile Home Park lease dispute
- Periodic rental adjustment under long term lease (sole arbitrator and tripartite)
- Post-acquisition accounting dispute between web-hosting company and internet service provider (tripartite)
- Public works project: dispute between prime contractor and drilling subcontractor
- Racial discrimination claims by nurses against health care company
- Real estate partnership dispute regarding disposition of proceeds of sale of assets
- Residential construction defect claims (multiple)
- Sale of residential real property: disclosure and fraud issues re land subsidence
- Sexual harassment and wrongful discharge claims against adult magazine publisher
- Sexual harassment and wrongful discharge claims against publisher
- Shareholder dispute over ownership of software development company (see Hightower v. Superior Court (O'Dowd), 86 Cal. App. 4th 1415 (2001))
- Title insurance coverage dispute (tripartite; commercial property)
- Title insurance dispute (sole arbitrator; residential property)
- Wrongful discharge and contractual claims by high-level executive of concert promoter
- Wrongful discharge claim by magazine executive against major entertainment conglomerate
- Wrongful discharge of an entertainment industry executive holding stock options in employer
- Wrongful termination claim by musician against Network
