Since joining JAMS in 1998,
Hon. John A. Flaherty (Ret.) has arbitrated hundreds of cases. He is known for his fair hearings, and well-reasoned awards. Prior to being a full time neutral at JAMS, Judge Flaherty gained experience handling a wide variety of complex civil cases during more than two decades on the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
Judge Flaherty’s arbitration experience includes professional liability cases, employment cases, business disputes in the high tech industry as well as the finance industry and real estate disputes.
Representative Matters
- Tripartite arbitration regarding real estate lending dispute between real estate developer and lender
- Arbitration involving accounting between joint venture partners
- Arbitration involving dissolution of partnerships and distribution of assets to limited partners
- Arbitration involving attorney fee dispute between real estate investor and law firm
- Arbitration dispute between CEO of three entities that did business internationally and owner of holding company that controlled the entities
- Arbitrated workplace discrimination based on race, worker’s comp injury and retaliation for violation of public policy against large multi-state based defendant
- Arbitrated dispute between partner and firm involving allocation of law firm distributions
- High-tech products manufacturer vs. distributor contract disputes (International Chamber of Commerce)
- Land valuation for ground lease of major shopping center
- Law firm partnership dissolutions
- Telephone rate dispute involving state and federal legal issues
- A case involving Chief Technology Officer/Vice President of a high tech company who allegedly breached an employment contract
- A multi-million dollar bankruptcy claim by trustee of defrauded high tech company against its former auditor
- A real estate valuation dispute between a large uni-trust and a beneficiary
- Commercial real estate dispute between partners in a professional building
- Corporate dissolution of a major real estate securities firm
- Dissolution of a securities firm involving valuation of securities and employment issues
- Matters between buyers and sellers of real property
- Tripartite arbitration dispute between international bank and a multi-millionaire family over a loan agreement
