Lucie Barron: A Trailblazer in the Legal Industry, an Inspiration in Real Life Lucie Barron is the President and Founder of ADR Services, Inc., one of the leading providers of alternative dispute resolution services in California. Though a success in her field now, Lucie grew up in the face of... read more
“The Ethics of an ADA Compliance Complaint from Lease to Trial” Presented by the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Real Property Section Friday, March 26, 2021
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Join Hon. Elizabeth Feffer (Ret.) and an expert panel of lawyers and industry consultants as they discuss... read more
“What We Have Learned About Remote Presentations to Courts and Mediators One Year Into The Pandemic” Presented by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter Wednesday, March 17, 2021
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Join Roger J. Lewis, Esq., along with a panel of private judges... read more
The 2021 conference theme is “Agility, Disruption and Reinvention: ADR in a New World.” Our world faced many extreme challenges in 2020, including a deadly global pandemic requiring seismic shifts in our personal and professional lives. We have witnessed incidents of police killing black people and heightened awareness and denial... read more
“Parenting Coordination: The Swiss Army Knife of Custody Tools” Presented by the Bar Association of San Francisco, Family Law Section Wednesday, March 3, 2021
12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Parenting Coordinators, sometimes known as Custody Special Masters, provide an efficient and cost-effective tool for dispute resolution in cases... read more
Residential Landlord Tenant Actions: The New Senate Bill 91, and Updates on Unlawful Detainers, Rent Relief and Rent Collection Tuesday, February 23, 2021
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Join Frank Burke, Esq. and an expert panel of lawyers and Judges as they discuss the newly enacted California Senate... read more
ADR Services, Inc. is proud to announce the addition of Hon. Barbara R. Johnson (Ret.) to our panel of distinguished neutrals. Judge Johnson recently retired from the Los Angeles Superior Court after 27 years on the bench. She enjoyed a distinguished judicial career as a respected trial judge with an... read more
Published in the Lawyers Club of San Diego, January 2021 Newsletter] 2021 marks 30 years since the Honorable (Retired) Judge Patricia Cowett was elected by her colleagues to be the San Diego Municipal Court’s Presiding Judge in 1991. Judge Cowett was the second woman to serve in this position, following... read more
Resolving cases virtually during the continuing global pandemic is the new normal. With not much hope for in-person jury trials, litigants are left in limbo. Rather than wait an eternity for the resumption of traditional jury trials, counsel are choosing virtual mediations and arbitrations to bring their matters to closure.... read more
[Published in the January 2021 issue of The Advocate, the Journal of Consumer Attorneys Associations for Southern California] There’s a school of thought that teaches plaintiffs’ lawyers to call a defense witness as the first witness at trial because it makes the jury focus immediately on the bad acts of... read more
