MAP Background Information provided
| Name: | Jeffrey P. Blum | ||||
| Address: | 350 Cambridge Ave., Ste. 225 | ||||
| Palo Alto, CA 94306 | |||||
| Telephone: | (650) 322-2606 | Fax: | (650) 289-9093 | ||
| Fees: | $400 per hour | ||||
| Other Costs: | Expenses related to the matter such as filing fees, long distance telephone charges, copying costs, facsimile transmission costs, costs of experts, etc. | ||||
| BAR Number: | 0083301 | ||||
| Attorney: x | Non-Attorney Professional Mediator/Arbitrator: Retired Judge/Justice: | ||||
| Mediation Experience: | Over 30 years of experience as a family law attorney; extensive mediation during the past 20 years or more; private judging; serving as a Judge Pro Tem hearing family law cases in San Mateo County; serving as a facilitator on school site councils for several years; and serving as a Commissioner on the Palo Alto Human Relations Commission where I mediated disputes between the police and private citizens and was involved in organizing and conducting community forums on police/community issues such as racial profiling. |
| Mediation Training: | 3 day course taken 1998, numerous continuing education mediation classes taken prior to and since then, extensive reading on mediation techniques, attending facilitator retreats. |
| Arbitration Experience: | Estensive experience as attorney for a party arbitrating a dispute, served on family law arbitration panel of San Mateo County, private arbitrator for family law cases. |
| Other Education: |
Graduated from Rutgers University: BA in English; Golden Gate University: JD. | |||||||
| Mediation Approach: |
I am primarily facilitative in my approach. However when I observe that the parties are at an impasse that may endanger the entire process, I will offer suggestions. I am always sensitive to maintaining equity in the parties' bargaining positions. | |||||||
| Arbitration Approach: |
Issues should be briefed beforehand, brief opeining and closing statements are allowed, informal presentation of evidence is encouraged, timely dicisions are rendered. | |||||||
| Other Information: |
Clerked for a Judge of the Alameda County Superior Court. Authored various articles on the uses and benefits of mediation. | |||||||
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