Michael McCabe, Esq.
Work History
Michael McCabe, Mediator, since 1995.
McCabe, Schwartz, Evans, Levy & Dawe, PLC 1969-1995.
Hoberg, Finger, Brown & Abramson, 1965-1969.
Legal Experience
Over 30 years experience as business counsel and civil trial lawyer. More than 50 trials tried to jury verdict, including real estate and commercial disputes, employment disputes, construction disputes, and environmental disputes. Experienced in personal injury / products liability / governmental agency / wrongful death / medical malpractice and other professional negligence disputes. In the last several years before becoming a full-time Mediator, was general counsel to a group of waste-management companies, active in negotiating governmental contracts and in public policy and environmental issues.
Mediation Experience
After commencing full-time mediation practice in 1995, earned a Masters Degree in Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Brings insight, structure, and process to help people hold confidential conversations and craft creative solutions - sometimes beyond what might be done through the courts. Mediates between 60 and 80 matters per year. Principal areas in which his assistance is sought: Conflicts involving Commercial and Residential Real Estate; Conflicts involving Business and Commercial Relationships; Family Conflicts involving Estates, Trusts and Conservatorships; Conflicts involving Personal Injury, Products Liability, Wrongful Death; Insurance; Professional Malpractice; Sexual Harassment; Civil conflicts involving Church and Clergy.
Court and Governmental Appointments
Court-connected Mediator: Alameda , Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano, and Sonoma County Courts. Governmental Programs: California Department of Insurance; United States Postal Service, REDRESS Program (EEOC Claims).
Teaching & Coaching Experience
University of San Francisco; California State University, Sonoma; Steven Rosenberg Mediation Training; John Paul Jones Group and Nancy Yeend Mediation Training; Principled Negotiation Mediation Training; Association for Conflict Resolution; the Mediation Society; Contra Costa County Bar Association; Sonoma County Bar Association; First District Court of Appeal.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Training
More than 200 hours of formal mediation training, including: Commercial Mediation (Nancy Yeend and John Paul Jones, Esq. -- 40 hrs.), 3/95; Litigation Risk Management (Bruce L. Beron, Ph.D., 8 hrs.), 12/96; Mediation and Conflict Resolution ( Steven Rosenberg, Esq., 40 hrs.), 3/97; Mediation for the Professional (U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal., Linda R..Singer & Michael K. Lewis, 14 hrs.) 4/98; Advanced Mediation Skills (U.S. Postal Service, 20 hrs), 4/98; Public Conversations Project (Robert R. Stains & Sallyann Roth, 16 hrs) 4/99; Center for Mediation in Law (Gary Friedman, Esq., 34 hrs.) 3/00; Victim-Offender Mediation (Eric Gilman, Eric Stutzman, David Gustafson, Sandy Bergen, 24 hours), 10/01; Facilitating Diologues in Crimes of Severe Violence (California Department of Corrections, David Doerfler, 48 hrs), 7/03. Other relevant training includes courses in Organizational Behavior and Communications given at the St. Mary's College Executive M.B.A. Program, Moraga, Ca. (circa. 1987), and courses in human behavior, motivation, and psychology given at the Graduate Theological Union, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, Ca. 1995-1997; special training in the fields of Sexuality, Power Relationships, and Alcoholism and Addiction
Professional Licenses & Bar Admissions
State Bar of California (#34727), 1964; U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1964; 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1964; U.S. Supreme Court, 1975; U.S. Tax Court, 1982; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 1992; 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1992.
Professional Associations
Association for Conflict Resolution, The Mediation Society, Real Estate Neutrals, American Bar Association, Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF), Alameda County Bar Association, Contra Costa County Bar Association, Sonoma County Bar Association, the Association of Independent Mediators (AIM).
Education
University of San Francisco School of Law (J.D.-1963); Graduate Theological Union, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (M.T.S.-1997).
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