Steven M. McCarthy
1265 Highway 51 |
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| Tort litigation including serious personal injury, wrongful death, professional malpractice including medical, veterinary, and legal; skilled care and elder abuse litigation, civil rights, public entity claims, products liability; and uninsured third party workplace, workplace harassment, structural pest control litigation plaintiff and defense; landlord-tenant torts, third party premises liability, some business torts, equine law, consumer fraud, mediation and ADR. I have substantial jury trial and appellate experience, and have lectured on third party premises liability. My practice includes criminal defense from municipal citations to serious felonies. |
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Approach to Practice / Form of Mediation |
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| I recognize that with ever-increasing costs, lengthy delays, limited judicial resources, and the loss of control of the outcome by submitting an issue to a judge or jury, mediation is superior to risks and costs of litigation. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) including mediation and arbitration, is the preferred road to expedient resolution unless money is simply no object. I tend toward a directive and evaluative approach to mediation, based upon my extensive experience as a settlement commissioner and pro tem judge, where expedience is often a principal consideration. I do not spend a lot of time handholding, and have a demonstrated proficiency in cutting to the chase and getting the proverbial horns quickly into the sand. | |
Background |
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| Hearing Officer, Oregon Department of Human Services, Mediator, Marion County Circuit Court, Oregon, Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Pro Tem Panel, EASE Program Evaluator (1993-2006), and Settlement Mentor (2002-2006); Small claims and traffic in all Alameda County Courts except Berkeley-Albany (1981-2006): civil court trials in Hayward; law and motion in Alameda and Oakland, criminal arraignments and sentencing in Alameda; Alameda County Bar Association Fee Arbitration Panel (1989-2006); Solano County Superior Court Domestic Violence Emergency Protective Order Judge (1994-1995), Arbitrator: Solano County Municipal Court (1994-1995), private or court appointed mediator in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Cruz, and Marin Counties. | |
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Continuing legal education and mediation training through various providers, including OMA. National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Diplomate, Fifth Advanced Session (1987), Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. Full Scholarship recipient. Golden Gate University Law School, Juris Doctor (1978); Law Review. California State University at San Francisco, Master of Arts in Philosophy (1975). Thesis subject area: Linguistic Epistemology. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Bachelor of Arts (197l). Philosophy major, religion minor. |
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| My basic hourly fee is $200 (usually born equally by the parties or otherwise as agreed), except court appointed matters, pro bono efforts. | |
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| English | |
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