Barbara Reeves

Barbara A. Reeves, Esq., CEDS

JAMS Mediator, Arbitrator, Referee/Special Master, Neutral Evaluator

Case Manager
Joshua Kroll
T: 310-309-6206
F: 310-396-7576
1925 Century Park East, 14th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067
JKroll@jamsadr.com

Biography

Barbara A. Reeves, Esq., CEDS (Certified E-Discovery Specialist) has arbitrated and mediated a wide range of cases across the entire spectrum of law. She has been a full-time arbitrator and mediator with JAMS since January 2006.

Before joining JAMS, she handled numerous arbitrations and mediations on a part-time basis while in private practice. In addition to specializing in complex litigation while in private practice in Los Angeles, she worked as a prosecutor in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles with the Antitrist Division of the United States Department of Justice. She also served as associate general counsel and vice-president of Southern California Edison and Edison International. Her experience inside the corporate arena has given her first-hand insight into the problems and concerns of employees and employers, technology, energy markets, insurance coverage, regulatory issues, contracts, and intellectual property.

Ms. Reeves is regarded as tenacious and creative, demonstrating the ability to find solutions in even the most complex and emotional cases. She has arbitrated and mediated across the entire range of insurance disputes, drawing from her expertise while in private practice handling environmental coverage matters.

Representative Matters

  • Mediated disputes between medical provider groups and insurance companies involving insurance coverage for medical services provided to patients
  • Sole arbitrator in multi-state dispute between group of hospitals and insurance company
  • Arbitrated case between hospital and insurance company arising out of wage and hour litigation
  • Arbitrated and then mediated case involving environmental coverage issues
  • Mediated dispute between primary and excess carriers involving interpretation of horizontal stacking of primary policies
  • Mediated cases alleging bad faith failure to resolve actions arising from complex litigation involving construction defects and toxic torts
  • Mediated coverage disputes between law firms and their legal malpractice insurance carriers
  • Mediated numerous coverage disputes regarding contribution for defense costs of an underlying construction defect cases
  • Mediated numerous coverage disputes related to directors and officers liability insurance
  • Mediated cases between London market underwriters and California insureds involving theft of art works.
  • Mediated employment practices liability coverage dispute seeking recovery of defense costs pursuant to settlement of an employment class action
  • Mediated subrogation disputes arising out of fire, theft, and construction defects

Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS. 

Honors and Memberships 

  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Fellow and current Board Member and Officer, College of Commercial Arbitrators
  • Fellow, Academy of Court Appointed Masters
  • Arbitrator, Court of Arbitration for Sport
  • Certified Mediator with the International Mediation Institute
  • Certified E-Discovery Specialist
  • Board Member, California International Arbitration Council
  • Recognized, Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center (SVAMC)'s List of the World's Leading Technology Neutrals
  • "Nationwide Mediators" List, Chambers USA (2016-2022),
  • Former President, Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Los Angeles Chapter)
  • Former board member or chair: Antitrust Sections of the State Bar of California and Los Angeles County Bar Association; ADR Committee, LACBA; Trustee, LACBA, Women Lawyers of Los Angeles
  • Current and/or former board member of numerous public interest organizations, including Public Counsel, Western Center on Law and Poverty, and a Founder of the Alliance for Children’s Rights
  • Member, California State Bar and the Bar of the District of Columbia

Recent Publications and Speaking Engagements

  • 2022 - Speaker at ABA Dispute Resolution Section Spring Meeting; speaker at California International Arbitration Week; speaker at various programs on E-discovery; speaker on European webinar on Using Mediation to Resolve Business Interruption Disputes.
  • 2020 and 2021 – Speaker on webinars presented by the ABA, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law groups (WIPL, LAIPL).
  • Speaker at the Emerging Issues Conference of the ABA Health Law Section (2016-2019); California Society of Health Attorneys Annual Meeting (2016, 2017); ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Conference (2017-2019)
  • “Uprooting the Decision Tree,” Advocate Magazine, CAALA, September 2018
  • “How Third-Party Funders change the Chemistry of Settlements,” Advocate Magazine, CAALA, September 2017
  • “A Special Master’s Role in Hospital Merger Cases,” LAW360 (2016)
  • Author, Updates to Rutter Group Employment Law Treatise, ADR chapter, 2012-2016
  • "Whose Arbitration is This, Anyway?", JAMS Global Engineering and Construction Newsletter, Fall 2013
  • "Litigation Solutions: Referees and Special Masters," Daily Journal, June 13, 2012
  • "It’s Time to Fix Arbitration Discovery," Los Angeles Lawyer, January 2010
  • "Ordered to arbitration? Take advantage!" Advocate Magazine, CAALA, September 2010
  • "As the Economy Stumbles, Employment Discrimination Claims Climb," Employment Law Strategist, Law Journal Newsletters, December 2008
  • Author or co-author of leading articles of ADR, international and domestic commercial arbitration and mediation, and managing costs in ADR; frequent trainer and lecturer on arbitration, mediation and e-discovery

ADR Profiles

  • JAMS, 2006-Present
  • Associate General Counsel and Vice President, Southern California Edison and Edison International, 1999-2005
  • Partner at major international law firms (Morrison & Foerster; Paul Hastings; Fried Frank), 1981-1999
  • United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division: various positions including Chief of the Los Angeles office, Trial Attorney, and Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General
  • Law Clerk to Judge Alfred T. Goodwin, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
    • Editor, Harvard Journal on Legislation
  • BA, Economics and Mathematics, New College

Counsel Comments

    • Recognized as "an excellent mediator and a great listener."

      - Chambers USA, 2021
    • Recognized as "very capable and very responsible."

      - Chambers USA, 2016
    • “The breadth of her experience prior to becoming a mediator gives her a sense of how clients react to things.”

      - Prominent Attorney
    • “You walk in and right away, you know she’s ready to roll up her sleeves and get into a case with you.”

      - Prominent Attorney
    • “She understood and tackled [the issues] quickly. She was very efficient.”

      - Prominent Attorney
    • “Thank you for your dilligent work and follow up on this case. Your continued dedication and effors went well above and beyond of what we typically receive from a mediator.”

      -       Prominent Attorney

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