MAP Background Information provided
| Name: | Stanley W. Smith | ||||
| Address: | 425 California Street, 15th Floor | ||||
| San Francisco, CA 94104-2118 | |||||
| Telephone: | (415) 981-5451 | Fax: | (415) 433-5439 | ||
| Email: | law@nivensmith.com | ||||
| Fees: | $300 per hour | ||||
| Other Costs: | None | ||||
| BAR Number: | 0072728 | ||||
| Attorney: x | Non-Attorney Professional Mediator/Arbitrator: Retired Judge/Justice: | ||||
| Mediation Experience: | In excess of 100 mediations conducted in areas of real estate, broker and legal malpractice, construction, patent infringement, business and partnership disputes, commercial lease disputes, partition actions, and mortgage brokerage claims. |
| Mediation Training: | Comprehensive 40-hour mediation training; American Arbitration Association basic arbitration training. |
| Arbitration Experience: | Arbitrations conducted in areas of real estate, construction and broker malpractice. |
| Neutral Evaluation Background: | |
| Settlement Conference Experience: | |
| Subject | Personal Injury: | Employment: | Business: | x | Real Estate: | x | ||
| Matter: | Legal Malpractice: | x | Public Agency: | Probate: | Construction: | x | ||
| Medical Malpractice: | Environmental: | Insurance: | Securities: | |||||
| Product Liability: | Landlord-Tenant / Neighborhood: | Dental Malpractice: | ||||||
| Foreign Language(s): | Intellectual Property/High Technology: | x | ||||||
| Accoutings: | Conservatorships/Guardianships: | Wills/Trusts: | ||||||
| Other: Real estate broker and sales transaction litigation. | ||||||||
| Other Education: |
Stanford University, BA Hastings College of the Law, J.D. |
| Mediation Approach: |
An evaluative/directive approach is used to guide parties to a resolution. |
| Arbitration Approach: |
A structural procedure is followed in both presentation of materials before and in the course of the arbitration hearing. |
| Neutral Approach: |
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| Other Information: |
Court-appointed referee in real estate litigation, San Francisco County Superior Court. |
| Brief Thumbnail: |
I am one of the founders of the law firm of Niven & Smith, and since 1977 have maintained a multi-faced civil litigation practice in the areas of real estate, complex construction defect, professional malpractice, securities and consumer class actions, commercial leasing and product liability. In this period, I have additionally served as Judge Pro Tem and court-appointed referee in the San Mateo and San Francisco County Superior Courts, and have been a member of continuing education panels in the areas of residential home defect litigation, real estate, brokerage litigation, damages and remedies in real estate litigation and elder abuse. Since 1999, I have also maintained an active mediation practice. My training includes Mediation and Conflict Resolution training (40 hours) and American Arbitration association arbitration training (10 hours). In the course of my mediation practice I have assisted parties in reaching settlements in matters involving real estate sales contracts, real estate broker and mortgage broker claims, partition and specific performance action, sales of business opportunities, partnership dissolution, attorney-client fee disputes, commercial contract claims, commercial leasing disputes, complex construction defects in both residential and commercial properties, and real estate non-disclosiue actions. |