David has been a full-time mediator and arbitrator for the past 15 years and has presided over more than 1,000 mediations and arbitrations. He has handled disputes across a wide spectrum of business and tort areas including business/commercial and breach of contract, partnership matters, intellectual property, securities, employment, real property, construction defect, probate and trusts, insurance coverage/bad faith, fraud, embezzlement, and civil rights. He has served on the Board of Directors and as past President of the Mediation Society of San Francisco, has taught Negotiation and Settlement and other ADR seminars at Hastings College of Law, and has made a number of presentations on mediation to both mediators and attorneys. Prior to becoming a neutral, David represented both plaintiffs and defendants at Keker & Van Nest, where he handled an array of complex commercial matters. David adapts various styles and approaches to match the type of dispute and personalities of the parties and litigators. "I try to understand the particulars of a dispute to find how it can be settled," David says. One attorney said of him, "what I appreciate most about David is the devotion and persistence he brings to the task. He shares the same drive to settle the dispute that the parties themselves have." Another attorney noted, "David did a remarkable job in digesting a substantial amount of unfamiliar reading material, which enabled him to provide the parties with an analysis of the case and gave him a great deal of credibility with both sides." On another difficult case, an attorney said "David achieved a settlement ... under difficult and emotional circumstances. I appreciated his calm demeanor and fairness."
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