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Current Position & Background

Ruth Glick combines a business and legal background to provide unique and pragmatic skills to facilitate settlements between parties. She is a full time neutral mediator and arbitrator in the San Francisco Bay area where she specializes in commercial, business contract and tort, securities, financial, venture and hedge fund investment, labor and employment, technology, real estate and medical malpractice disputes.

Ms. Glick served as adjunct professor of Arbitration and ADR Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law for ten years and was a judicial extern for the Honorable William A. Newsom, First District, California State Court of Appeal. She has authored several book chapters on arbitration, articles for law reviews and professional publications and has made numerous presentations on ADR topics to bar and other professional associations.

Ms. Glick's prior financial background augments her legal experience. As a currency and financial instruments trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's International Monetary Market in Chicago and as executive vice president of a foreign exchange arbitrage firm, Ms. Glick mediated very large monetary disputes among traders and institutional market participants. As the host of a daily television program showcasing top business and government leaders. Ms. Glick gained the reputation of a fair and impartial moderator who carefully evaluated the issues and built a consensus among disparate participants.

A member of the California Bar, she is on the arbitration and mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, Distinguished Panel of Neutrals of CPR, Office of the Independent Administrator (Kaiser Healthcare) as well as a number of court, industry, labor and government panels. She earned a B.A. degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and a law degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. For more information see www.ruthvglick.com

Main Mediation Practice Areas

Ruth Glick mediates disputes involving business contract and tort, partnership, securities, financial instruments, commodities, venture fund, hedge fund, labor and employment including discrimination and compensation, real estate, including commercial leases and development, medical malpractice, technology, trademarks and trade secrets.

Mediation Experience

Ruth Glick has been a lawyer/mediator for commercial, business and employment disputes for over 15 years and has mediated hundreds of cases. Some representative cases she has mediated include:
Nationwide class action sexual harassment lawsuits involving large securities brokerage firm
Venture capital and angel investment disputes
Derivative, commodities and other financial instrument disputes
Executive compensation and stock option exercise
Wage and hour individual and class actions
Partnership dissolutions
Software development contract disputes
Trademark uses on internet
Distribution of proceeds from recovered paintings
National sports franchise employment dispute
Real Estate issues involving development, commercial leases, partition and defect disclosure, shopping centers
Minority shareholder stock valuation
Hedge Fund distributions
Business purchase contract dispute
Medical records business contract dispute
Health care claims between providers and insurance companies

Mediation Style

Facilitative but flexible depending on demonstrated and stated needs of parties. Evaluative to at least communicate strengths and weaknesses of case. Common sense and pragamatic approach geared to narrowing issues and seeking solutions.

Code of Ethical Conduct

IMI Code of Professional Conduct
ABA/AAA/ACR Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators

Complaints Process

IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process

Professional Indemnity Insurance

Complete Equity Markets , Inc., 1190 Flex Court, Lake Zurich, IL 60047 (847) 541-0900
Coverage $250,000/$500,000

Feedback Digest

Reviewer: Judith Meyer ( judith@judithmeyer.com )
Latest Update: 1 Aug 2009 21:07

Four mediation participants reflected on Ruth Glick’s skills in mediation.

Her feedback comes from trial counsel in business and employment disputes. She is viewed as a very efficient and effective mediator, knowledgeable of case-specific facts and the applicable law. Ms. Glick has a “calm and cordial demeanor” and “relates personally to litigants.” She has the ability to put everyone at ease and couples that with “sharp insights that help a party assess the strengths and weaknesses of its case.”

She has a “keen understanding of both the substantive and procedural issues unique to employment litigation,” coupled with a keen intellect which makes her able to sort out the “compelling” arguments from the “posturing “ ones. Ms. Glick has the ability “to keenly and astutely size up the actual objectives of the parties at mediation in order to get the parties to become more realistic regarding the strengths and weakness of their case.” She is also “tenacious” about pursing settlement and helping the parties focus on their ultimate goals.

Counsel who have worked with Ms. Glick, enthusiastically recommend her to their colleagues, who report that they are also well-pleased with Ms. Glick’s work.

Her four feedback providers are willing to serve as references.
• Daniel L. Feder, Esq., 807 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94133 Tel. (415) 391-9476.
• Stacey Jue, Esq., Federal Express Corporation Legal Department, 2601 Main Street, Suite 340, Irvine, CA 92614, Tel. (949) 862-4605; Email: stacey.jue@fedex.com
• Laura E. Innes, Esq., Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi, PC, Tel. (650) 615-4860; Email: LInnes@sgijlaw.com
• Swain Wood, Esq., Wood Jackson PLLC, Tel. (919) 829-7394; Email: swood@woodjacksonlaw.com

Professional Affiliations

American Arbitration Association-Arbitration and Mediation panels
CPR-International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution - Arbitration and Mediation panels
Office of the Independent Administrator -Kaiser Healthcare Arbitration panel
FINRA Securities Arbitrator and Mediator
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service - Labor Arbitrator
California Mediation and Conciliation Service - Labor Arbitrator
U.S. District Court, San Francisco - Mediator
San Mateo Superior Court Mediation Panel
San Francisco Superior Court Mediation Panel
Santa Clara Superior Court Mediation Panel

American Bar Association - Secretary, Dispute Resolution Section; Conference Co-Chair of 2009 annual meeting in New York and 2010 meeting in San Francisco
The Mediation Society of San Francisco (Former President)
Distinguished Fellow, International Academy of Mediators (IAM)
College of Commercial Arbitrators - Fellow and former board member
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ADR Committee
California Dispute Resolution Council (Former President)
California Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (Diplomat Member)
Super Lawyer, Northern California 2011

Fee Rate

U.S. $450/hour

References

• Stacey Jue, Esq., Asst. Gen. Counsel, ABM Industries, Tel. (949) 585-5912; Email: stacey.jue@abm.com
• Laura E. Innes, Esq., Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi, PC, Tel. (650) 615-4860; Email: LInnes@sgijlaw.com
• Swain Wood, Esq., Wood Jackson PLLC, Tel. (919) 829-7394; Email: swood@woodjacksonlaw.com

Mediation Education and Training

Harvard Law School, Program of Instruction of Lawyers, Mediation Workshop 1994
Advanced Mediator's Forum, JAMS/Endispute and Pepperdine University 1997
Master's Forum, Pepperdine University 2003

Awards:
"Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Mediation Award" by The Mediation Society of San Francisco, 2008.
Robert C. Barrett Award for Outstanding Service in the Field of ADR, 2003, CDRC
Super Lawyer, Northern California 2011

Mediation Teaching and Mentoring

Adjunct Pofessor, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, "Arbitration and ADR Law" ( including U.S. Law on mediation) 1995-2005

Instructor and Presenter:
"Current Mediation Trends, Strategies and Techniques,", The Mediation Society Education Day 2008
"Discuss it with the Mediator Roundtable," Employment Law Section 25th Annual Meeting, State Bar of California, 2007
"Mediation for the Non-Litigator", State Bar of California annual meeting 2007
"Med-Arb: Practical Panacea or Ethical Sandtrap", California State Bar, 2006
Instructor, Advanced Mediation Institute, ABA, Philadelphia, Oct. 2009

Mediation Publications

"Was it Mediation or Arbitration? Be Sure Everyone is on the Same Page", Business Law News, State Bar of California, Issue 2, 2006

"Was That Mediation or Arbitration? Two New California Cases Beg the Question Again",
Business Law News, State Bar of California, Issue 3, 2006

Case Law Commentaries, California Civil Litigation Reporter, Volume 27/Number 4, 2005

Book Chapters:

"Ethics in Contractual Arbitration, A Litigator's Guide to Effective Use of ADR in California", CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar) 2005-8

"Arbitrator Ethics and Disclosure", California ADR Practice Guide-Matthew Bender, Lexis Nexis 2004

"Appointment Disclosures and Disqualification of Neutral Arbitrators," A Guide to Best Practices for Commercial Arbitrators, College of Commercial Arbitrators, 2005 (co-author).