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61==Name: Stanley W. Smith
Address: Niven & Smith, LLP
  505 Sansome Street, Suite 450
  San Francisco, CA 94111
Telephone:(415) 981-5451Fax:(415) 433-5439      
Email: law@nivensmith.com
Fees: $400 per hour
Other Costs:  None
BAR Number:0072728
Current Status: Attorney
Subject Matter:
  • Business / Breach of Contract
  • Construction
  • Intellectural Property / High Technology
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Real Estate / Eminent Domain
  • Other: Real estate broker and sales transaction litigation.
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.
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.
Other
Information:

 		 Court-appointed referee in real estate litigation, San Francisco County Superior Court.
Brief
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 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.
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