When you are selecting a mediator or arbitrator, you need someone who will listen to and understand you as well as he understands the other side and the law.

With ten years' defense and twenty five years' plaintiff's side experience to go along with eight years working as a staff attorney for the courts writing rulings in cases just like yours, Jay Chafetz has the experience with people and the law to help you resolve your case in an even-handed and fair way.  He has litigated, tried to verdict, and settled numerous cases just like yours.

Plus with his experience working inside the courts on all types pretrial rulings, including numerous motions for summary judgment, and with his extensive experience handling discovery matters and being the lead author of the discovery facillitator rules in Contra Costa County, he has the knowledge and experience you look for in a retired judge, without the cost, but with understanding of the stresses and strains that litigants and counsel go through every day.

Finally, if you want to know how a judge would rule on your case, you have the comfort of knowing that in hundreds of rulings he has written, he has never been substantively reversed.

Primary focus areas:

• Any tort case
• Personal Injury
• Medical Malpractice
• Kaiser Arbitrations
• Legal Malpractice
• Elder Abuse
• Trust Disputes

Call today and get the mediator or arbitrator that is right for you.