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259==Name: Frank Burke
Address: Frank Burke Mediation & Arbitration, P.C.
  201 Spear Street, Suite 1100
  San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone:(650) 351-2321        

Email: frank@burkemediation.com
Website: https://www.burkemediation.com/

Fees: $550 per hour
Other Costs:  Half day rate is $2250; Full day rate is $4500; Administrative fee is $250 per party for a
mediation and $500 per party for arbitration. Full payment required for cancellation within 14 days of the hearing.

BAR Number:0075970

Current Status: Attorney

Subject Matter:
  • Business / Breach of Contract
  • Class Action / Complex Litigation
  • Employment
  • Environmental
  • Intellectual Property
  • Landlord / Tenant
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Personal Injury / Auto
  • Personal Injury / Other
  • Real Estate / Eminent Domain
  • Securities

Mediation
Experience:


 
I have mediated hundreds of matters focused on contracts, business, commercial, real estate, landlord/tenant, technology, trade secrets, intellectual property, corporate governance, partnership and LLC dissolutions, employment, personal injury and professional malpractice matters. Since 2017 I have also served on mediation panels in the Santa Clara and Contra Costa Superior Courts, the Bay Area Mediation Services Panel of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the National Rosters of Arbitrators and Mediators of the American Arbitration Association, and on the panel of ADR Services, Inc.





Mediation
Training:


 
Advanced Mediation Skills, Pepperdine Law School, June 21-23, 2018 (17 hours); Advanced Mediation Institute, ABA Dispute Resolution Section, October 19-20, 2017(12 hours); ABA Dispute Resolution Section, Annual Conference, April 20, 2017 (2.5 hours); Association for Dispute Resolution, Northern California Chapter, Annual Conference, March 25-26, 2017 (12 hours); Mediating the Litigated Case, Pepperdine Law School, August 1-6, 2016 (40 hours).

During 2018 I chaired and taught programs on mediation advocacy in employment litigation and in technology litigation, focused on trade secrets and patents.






Settlement
Conference
Experience:

Pro Tem Mandatory Settlement Conference Judge, San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties, 2017-present

Other
Education:


 
Cornell University, A.B. 1972 Magna Cum Laude in Economics;
Harvard Law School, J.D. 1975
Mediation
Approach:


 
I use facilitative and evaluative techniques depending on the type of case, the situations of the parties, and discussions with counsel. I seek to understand the parties' views, motivations, wants and needs, then help the parties resolve their conflicts in a fair, creative and cost effective way through creative approaches and relentless follow-up, in a framework of trust and civility.
Other
Information:


 
Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation 2007-present; Super Lawyers, Securities Litigation and ADR, 2007-present; Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers, 2007-2012
General Commercial Litigation; Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent.
Brief
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I mediate contracts, business, commercial, real estate, landlord/tenant, technology, trade secrets, intellectual property, corporate governance, partnership and LLC dissolutions, employment, personal injury and professional malpractice matters in offices in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland using my 42 years as a business trial lawyer. During my career I tried 22 jury trials as lead counsel. I work with individuals as well as small, medium sized and large businesses including family businesses. A complete list of representative matters is shown on my website. Mediation time slots can be scheduled with my Case Manager Katy Jones at 415-772-0900.

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