Jeffrey P. Palmer, Esq.

Case Manager: Malcolm Kao
Tel: (213) 683-1600 Ext. 35

Jeffrey P. Palmer, Esq.

Degrees and Licenses

  • MBA    Pepperdine University, 1985
  • JD        University of Maryland, 1973
  • BA       University of California, 1968

Experience and Background

  • Hundreds of mediated and arbitrated cases: Employment, closely-held business, partnerships, commercial, construction, professional liability, real estate, personal injury.
  • Admitted to California Bar in 1973. Litigation practice.
  • Owner and operator of manufacturing company, 1978-1992.
  • Captain, U.S. Army 1970-71, Viet Nam veteran.

Additional Information

  • President, Mediation Specialists, Inc., Pasadena.
  • Mediator/Arbitrator, Arbitration and Mediation International, Sacramento.
  • Mediator, California Department of Insurance, Earthquake Claims
  • Settlement Officer, Los Angeles County Bar Association, D.R.S.
  • Arbitrator/Mediator, Los Angeles Superior Court.
  • Arbitrator/Mediator, Ventura Superior Court.
  • Arbitrator, San Bernardino Superior Court.
  • Arbitrator, National Association of Securities Dealers
  • Judge Pro Tem, Los Angeles Municipal Court.
  • Judge Pro Tem, Pasadena Municipal Court.
  • Trainer, California Mediation Institute.
  • Regular and Sustaining Member, Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
  • Board Member & Treasurer, Southern California Mediation Association.

Brief Biographical Sketch Including Areas of Expertise

  • Jeffrey P. Palmer is an attorney and a businessman. He has specialized in arbitration and mediation since 1992. He had a general litigation practice for 5 years before managing an aerospace tool and die manufacturing company for 14 years. He also has a Masters Degree in Business Administration.
  • Mr. Palmer's mediation and arbitration practice has included more than 200 cases (100-mediation, 100-arbitration) in construction contract, construction defect, employment law, contract, fraud, negligence and professional malpractice and personal injury.
  • Mr. Palmer regularly presents mediating and arbitration classes on ethics, negotiations and procedures.

Classroom Training

  • PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, INSTITUTE FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION
  • "Mediating the Litigated Case." Forty-two hours of lectures and role-plays focused on litigated cases, Irvine, CA 1/19/96.
  • ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ASSOCIATES, Nancy Yeend, John Paul Jones, Trainers
  • Forty hours of lectures and role-plays focused on COMMERCIAL MEDIATION, Palo Alto, CA (1992).
  • THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MEDIATION, D.B.A. THE MEDIATION CENTER
  • Thirty hours of lectures and role-plays, MEDIATION TRAINING FOR VOLUNTEERS Irvine, CA (1992).
  • THE RUTTER GROUP
  • "Settling P.I. Cases" Six hours of lectures, Los Angeles, CA (1995).
  • FIRST MEDIATION CORPORATION
  • "SCMA Employment Dispute Seminar" Six hours of lectures, Santa Monica, CA (1995).
  • LOS ANGELES COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES
  • "Advanced Mediation" Six hours of lectures, Los Angeles, CA (1994).
  • CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS-ARTS ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION SERVICE
  • Seven hours of lectures and role-plays, Santa Monica, CA (1993).
  • VENTURA COUNTY SUPERIOR AND MUNICIPAL COURTS DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAM
  • Four hours of lectures, Ventura, CA (1993).
  • LOS ANGELES COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION, SUPERIOR COURT ARBITRATOR TRAINING, Los Angeles, CA (1993).
  • ORANGE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION, SUPERIOR COURT ARBITRATOR TRAINING, Santa Ana, CA (1993).

Published Articles

  • "What to Expect in your First Court Mediation" Orange County Lawyer Magazine 4/94
  • "Mediation for Human Resources Professionals" PIHRA Conference (1995)
  • "Mediation in the Northeast District" Pasadena Lawyer Referral Service (1996) pending

Presentations

  • Negotiation Skills" California mediation Institute (1996)
  • "Active Listening Skills " California Mediation Institute (1996)
  • "Legalese for Mediators" Southern California Mediation Association (1996)
  • "Mediation Case intake I & II" California Mediation Institute (1996)
  • "Conciliation and Mitigation" California Mediation Institute (1996)
  • Orange County Board of Supervisors-Financial Roundtable Select Panel for Economic Recovery July 1995
  • PIHRA Legal Update 1995
  • Orange County Mediation Week Conference, 1994 and 1995
  • Orange County Mediation Week Conference, 1994 and 1995
  • California Arts Council Taxes for the Independent Contractor 1994
  • The Mediation Center, Costa Mesa, California, Basic Mediator Training 1993
  • Various bar association Mediation, Arbitration & Litigation 1993-1995
  • Various service clubs Preventive laws and Mediation, 1994
  • Various real estate brokerages Mediation in R E Transactions 1994-1995

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