Qualifications
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ADR services Jay Chafetz serves as a mediator and arbitrator in a wide variety of civil cases, with particular emphasis on the following:
He earns praise from the participants for his ability to quickly master complicated factual and legal arguments; establish rapport with clients and attorneys on both sides of the dispute; and achieve, in an efficient manner, resolutions that the parties did not think possible. In addition to his ADR work, he serves as a Discovery Referee and Facilitator. He was Principal Drafter of the Discovery Facilitator Rules for Contra Costa County Superior Court. Qualifications 10 years' experience in insurance defense 24 years' experience in plaintiff's personal injury, medical malpractice, elder abuse, and general civil litigation. 5 years' experience in trust and estate litigation 4 years' experience as Adjunct Law School Professor of Torts 8 years' experience with the Contra Costa County Superior Court, writing tentative rulings for the Civil Fast Track judges (including Judges Austin, Craddick, Fannin, Treat, Baskin, Weil, Maier, Goode, Devine, and Douglas). At the Court, he had an excellent record in over 600 matters for accurate and appellate-affirmed rulings in a wide variety of civil cases, including personal injury, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, government tort liability, defamation, miscellaneous tort, breach of contract, fraud, insurance coverage and bad faith, 17200, Brown Act violations, Publics Records Act, writs of mandate, and anti-SLAPP. Affirmed, published cases include (Fowler v. City of Lafayette (2020) 46 Cal.App.5th 360 (Brown Act); Manson Constr. Co. v. County of Contra Costa (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th 1079 (property taxes); Midwest Motor Supply Co. v. Superior Court (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th 702 (forum non conveniens; employment contract); Dean v. Friends of Pine Meadow (2018) 21 Cal.App.5th 91 (anti-SLAPP). Affirmed, unpublished ones include Gable v. Ivy Hill (4/24/20) (statute of limitations); R & J Construction v. Abadir (5/1/19) (breach of contract; statute of limitations); Moffett v. St. Vincent De Paul Soc'y of Contra Costa County (3/1/19) (FEHA); Kats v. Lodgepole Investments (10/31/18) (attorney's fees under CCP § 128.7; equitable indemnity); Dean v. Friends of Pine Meadow (9/27/18) (attorneys' fees). Education Hastings College of Law, JD., 1980 (Law Review, Order of the Coif) University of California at San Diego, 1976 (Summa cum laude) |
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