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Louise LaMothe
Ms. LaMothe's experience
in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) spans
over twenty years, and includes service as
a mediator, arbitrator and advocate. She
has presided over a wide variety of cases.
She has published
and taught extensively on the subject,
and has developed videotaped materials
for training lawyers in mediation skills.
Ms. LaMothe brings
extensive and varied "real world" experience
to the Dispute Resolution process.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
- Professional Neutral/Mediator and Arbitrator
- American Arbitration Association--Large,
Complex Case, Employment Law, Commercial,
NRE, and Class Action Panels
- CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, Los Angeles Region Panel
- USDC Central District
of California, Attorney Settlement Officer
- Santa Barbara CADRe (court-connected ADR
program)
March 1996-March 1999
Of Counsel
BIRD, MARELLA, BOXER & WOLPERT
(Formerly
BIRD, MARELLA, BOXER, WOLPERT & MATZ)
Los
Angeles , California
Business litigation
in a variety of subject matter areas
in state and federal courts, at trial and
appellate levels, including: derivative, securities
class action and broker/dealer litigation, accountants'
professional negligence defense, business
torts, entertainment industry transactions, insurance
bad faith, representation of guarantors
and creditors in bankruptcy matters, antitrust,
probate, contractual disputes, including contracts
for goods and services, real property leases
and lending agreements, partnership disputes,
fraud, products liability and defamation claims.
Representation of management in employment litigation
and related matters, including investigation
of allegations of harassment due to sex and sexual
orientation.
August, 1992-March, 1996
RIORDAN & MCKINZIE
(now BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP)
Los Angeles , California
Senior Litigation Principal
August l974 - August,
1992
IRELL & MANELLA
Los Angeles , California
Partner from l978
June l97l - July l974
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW
SCHOOL
Lawrence , Kansas
Assistant Professor
and Associate Professor
Faculty Director,
Legal Aid Clinic
EDUCATION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - J.D.
197l
Palo Alto , California
Activities: Note
Editor, Stanford Law Review,
Legal Aid
Society, Juvenile Defender Project,
and
indigent criminal representation.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - A.B. 1968
History (with
distinction)
BAR MEMBERSHIPS
- Los Angeles, Santa
Barbara and Ventura County Bar Associations
- American Bar Association
- The State Bar of California
- California Women Lawyers
- Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
- Santa Barbara Women Lawyers
- Federal Bar Association
- The State Bar of Kansas (inactive)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Chair, 1992-1993, Section
of Litigation, American Bar Association;
Council, l986-1989; other Section
positions, 1981-1991; member, ABA House
of Delegates, 1993-1998; member, Dispute
Resolution Section; member, Senior Lawyers Division, Chair ADR Committee, 2008 -
- State Bar of California , Board of
Legal Specialization, Labor and Employment
Law Consulting Group, 1998-
- Member, The American Law Institute,
1993-
- Member, College of Commercial Arbitrators,
2001- ; Board Member, 2008-
- CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution,
Los Angeles Regional Panel of Neutrals,
1996-1999, Fair Housing Panel, 1998-1999: 2004-,
Securities Panel, 1999
- Member, Southern California Mediation
Association, 2000-
- Member California Dispute Resolution
Council, Qualifications and Standards
Committee, 2001-2002
- California Judicial Council, 1990-1992;
member, Advisory Committee on Implementation
of Gender Bias Recommendations, 1991-1994
- Volunteer mediator/arbitrator, Los
Angeles Superior Court, 1994 -1999
- Chair, Lawyers Support Committee, Los
Angeles Legal Aid Foundation Annual
Fund Drive , 1994-95
- Los Angeles County Bar Association,
ABA Relations Committee, 1991-1995 ;
ADR Section, Executive Committee, 1994-1997
- Board of Trustees, Graduate Theological
Union , Berkeley , CA , 1995-2004
- Editorial Board, Western Legal History (1988),
Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society,
2000-
- Chair, ADR Committee, Santa Barbara
County Bar Association, 2006
- Board of Directors, The Alliance for
Children's Rights, 1993-1996
- Board of Directors, Inner City Law
Center, 1991-1996
- Board of Visitors, Stanford Law School
, l986-l988; 1989-1991; Executive Committee,
1989-1991
- Deputy General Counsel, Independent
Commission on the Los Angeles Police
Department, 1991
- Lawyer Representative, Ninth Circuit
Judicial Conference, l986 & l987,
1993-1995; alternate, 1992-1993
- Faculty member, National Institute
for Trial Advocacy, l973, l978- (national,
regional, specialized and teacher training
programs); Member, NITA Board of Trustees,
1991-2008; Chair, 2006-2008.
- Committee on Women in the Law, State
Bar of California, l985-88, Chair,
l987-88
- Board of Governors, Association of
Business Trial Lawyers, l982-l984
- Board of Directors, Public Counsel,
l980-l983
PUBLICATIONS
(Partial List)
- Business Litigation, California
Civil Practice (6 vols.) (Thomson/West)
(supplemented semiannually)
- Contributing Author, The College of Commercial Arbitrators Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration JurisNet (2006)
- Contributing Author, Alternative Dispute Resolution:
The Litigator’s
Handbook (ABA Section of Litigation)
(N. Atlas, S. Huber, E. Trachte-Huber,
Eds.) (2000)
- Book Review, Jurist (March,
1998)
- Contributing Author, The Woman Advocate: Excelling in the
1990's (Prentice Hall Law & Business)
(J. Snyder, A. Greene, Eds.) (1994)
- Thinking About Mediation , Litigation
(Summer 1993)
- Why the Task Force on Children? ,
Litigation (Spring 1993)
- Where Have all the Mentors Gone? ,
Litigation (Winter 1992)
- Where are We Going Anyway? ,
Litigation (Fall 1992)
- Women as Rainmakers , Litigation
(Spring 1991)
(with Jean Maclean Snyder
and Robin Page West)
- Endangered Species, Stanford
Lawyer (Spring/Summer 1989)
- Bar Watch, For Women Lawyers, It's
Still an Uphill Climb, California
Lawyer (Sept., l987)
- Women Under the Law: The Pedestal or
the Cage? , 43 Kan. B. J. 25 (l974)
- Roe v. Wade: The Right of Privacy Revisited ,
2l Kan. L. Rev. 527 (l973) (with S.L.
Kovar)
- Note, Community Controlled Renewal
in California
Some Proposals for Change,
23 Stan. L. Rev. l48 (l970)
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