Linda Bulmash, Esq.

Expert Mediator and Negotiator
Specializing in Resolving Highly Emotional Disputes

Ability. Determination. Success.

ADR Experience

With over thirty years experience as a businesswoman, lawyer and mediator, Linda Bulmash is a recognized expert in negotiation and mediation. She brings to mediations the energy, determination and know-how to get even the most highly emotional and contentious cases resolved. Having successfully resolved over 500 complex cases, Ms. Bulmash seamlessly blends her legal knowledge, trial background and understanding of human behavior to create a dynamic mediation process. Her unique talent for balancing legal, factual and emotional issues has made her an unflappable mediator who wins the trust of all sides and resolves even the most contentious disputes.

She is particularly adept at resolving complex and emotional disputes involving employment/workplace (including sexual harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues and ERISA claims) serious injury torts/product liability, professional liability, partnership dissolutions, business/contract issues, real estate, and insurance coverage matters.

ADR Training and Experience

Full-Time mediator since 1996
Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission Hearing Officer
Executive Committee, Labor & Employment Section, Beverly Hills Bar Association
Panelist, Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution/Pepperdine University Master's Forum (2002), "Mediating Complex Employment Disputes"
Chair, Practice Development Committee, American Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section
Monthly columnist: "Negotiate Like The Winners", Los Angeles Daily Journal
Faculty, American Bar Association, Mediation/Negotiation Training for Judges
Faculty, Los Angeles County Bar, Dispute Resolution Services, Mediation / Negotiation Training
Member, Los Angeles County Superior Court ADR Committee
Mentor Mediator - Los Angeles Superior Court Panel of Mediators
Contributor: Los Angeles Superior Court Volunteer Mediator Handbook.
Mediator, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Panel of Mediators
Judge pro tem, Los Angeles Superior Court
Chair, ADR Section, San Fernando Valley Bar Association

ADR Design, Implementation and Neutral Fact Finding

Linda Bulmash has been actively involved in neutral fact-finding and the design and development of ADR systems and negotiation programs since the early 1990s. She has been successfully retained for this purpose for trade associations, corporations and law firms. A sampling of her programs appears below.

Trainer, "Maximizing Your Client's Success at Mediation", Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2003, 2004

Faculty, American Bar Association, "Mediation Training for Judges", February, 2001

Trainer, "Negotiating Legal Disputes," Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1998, 1999, 2000

Panelist, "Negotiate Like the Winners," Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1998, 1999, 2000

Trainer, "Advocating Effectively for Your Client in Mediation," Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1999, 2000

Trainer, "Getting More 'Yes'," Society of Professionals In Human Resource (PIHRA), 40^th Annual Convention, 1997

Trainer, "Street Smart Deal Making," National Association of Women Business Owners, 1995

Sexual Harassment/Discrimination Prevention Training, various corporations, 1994 - present

Outstanding ADR Achievements

In 1999, she was recognized by the County of Los Angeles for her expertise and contributions in dispute resolution, which benefited the citizens of Los Angeles County. That same year she also received the Griffin Bell Award from Dispute Resolution Services of the Los Angeles County Bar.

Acknowledged as an expert in the field, the Los Angeles Daily Journal has engaged her to write a monthly column, Negotiate Like The Winners. Additionally, she is one of the few attorneys to be honored to sit on the ADR Committee of the Los Angeles Superior Court to help design the court program.

Since 1994, Linda Bulmash has been published numerous times primarily on the subjects of negotiation and ADR.

Education and Legal Background

During her legal career, Linda Bulmash has represented both plaintiffs and defendants litigating employment/workplace (including sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination); serious injury torts and product liability; partnership dissolutions, business; real estate; professional liability; insurance coverage and construction defect matters. She has argued three times before the California Court of Appeal.

University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., 1965

Whittier Law School, J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 1985 (Editor, Law Review; Moot Court Honors Board)

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