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| Name: | Mark F. Katz | ||||
| Address: | 1221 Broadway, 21st Floor | ||||
| (see bio for San Mateo location information) | |||||
| Oakland, CA 94612 | |||||
| Telephone: | (650) 996-4792 | ||||
| Email: | mark@katzmediation.com | ||||
| Website: | www.katzmediation.com | ||||
| Fees: | $375 per hour | ||||
| Other Costs: | No other costs. | ||||
| BAR Number: | 0069060 | ||||
| Attorney: x | Non-Attorney Professional Mediator/Arbitrator: Retired Judge/Justice: | ||||
| Mediation Experience: | Have mediated over 150 cases since 1997, focusing on business, real estate and employment matters, including cross-cultural disputes. |
| Mediation Training: | 30 hours initial training by USDC in San Francisco (in 2000), plus morethan 15 hours of Advanced Training from USDC; original training in 1997 by First Mediation Group (30 hours). |
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| Subject | Personal Injury: | Employment: | x | Business: | x | Real Estate: | x | |
| Matter: | Legal Malpractice: | Public Agency: | Probate: | Construction: | ||||
| Medical Malpractice: | Environmental: | Insurance: | Securities: | x | ||||
| Product Liability: | Landlord-Tenant / Neighborhood: | Dental Malpractice: | ||||||
| Foreign Language(s): | x | Intellectual Property/High Technology: | x | |||||
| Accoutings: | Conservatorships/Guardianships: | Wills/Trusts: | ||||||
| Other: Cross-Cultural disputes | ||||||||
| Other Education: |
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1971; Princeton University, A.B., Special certificates from Woodron Wilson School Program in International Relations and Asian Studies Program. |
| Mediation Approach: |
Facilitative. |
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| Other Information: |
***My San Mateo office is located at 1840 Gateway Drive, Suite 200, San Mateo, CA 94404. I conduct mediations there, but receive mail at my Oakland office. Please see my website at www.katzmediation.com. I mediate cases only once per week, which enables me to be avaialble to work with counsel before the session to prepare for a successful mediation. |
| Brief Thumbnail: |
Have 35 years experience as M&A, corporate, finance securites and real estate attorney, including with international cross-cultural matters. Experience includes serving as general counsel for E*Trade International, as senior partner of Kinsella, Boescut, Fujikana & Towle in LA (A Gibson Dunn spin-off) for 15 years (1984-99) and with White & Case, a Chinese firm in Singapore; and as clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Have presented cross-cultural negotiation programs to over 1000 attorneys within past 3 years, featuring humorous mock negotiations between U.S., Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Turkish, Mexican and Spanish business people. Have found that my cross-cultural negotiation experience has frequently been quite helpful in resolving business disputes here in California. |