Welcome
Growth of ADR. The need for alternative dispute resolution services has been widely acknowledged and demonstrated by the legal profession’s acceptance of mediation as the preferred method of ending disputes, right behind direct negotiation, which, where feasible, is the best all around way to get the job done.
Obstacles in Negotiation. Often direct negotiation of an issue runs into such obstacles as lack of trust, widely different perceptions of what is fair, ethical or just, personality clashes, inequality of negotiating acumen, and a failure on one or both sides to appreciate fundamental interests and how best to realize or protect them.
Skill of Dave Finch Through training and experience over many years as a professional mediator, settlement conference judge pro tem, as a CLE provider on mediation and as an arbitrator, as well as a trial lawyer, Dave Finch has acquired the skills and understandings important to the job of assisting parties in dispute to overcome those obstacles by helping each to be heard clearly by the other or others, and thus by promoting understanding among or between them, by helping each to identify fundamental interests and the alternative ways to achieve or protect them, and by assisting in the formulation of resolutions which the parties can understand as superior to the alternatives. (For example see article on human nature.)
Useful clicks. Dave Finch has received high praise of his peers as reflected in his receiving the A-V rating of Martindale-Hubbell, the highest in legal skills and ethics, and by comments of those who have seen him in action. Click on Compliments On Our Work, to see a few such testimonials. Click on Curriculum Vitae to see a detailed listing of background experiences. And click on Mediation Experience to find cases recently handled by Dave Finch in the category to which your particular case might belong.
Available to You! Services are provided by Dave Finch across a wide swath of Northern California from Bay and South Bay Area Counties, across to Sacramento and Placer Counties, and up through Nevada County, over to Yuba and Sutter Counties, over the summit to Truckee and even down the eastern Sierra slope to Reno, Nevada. More remote locales across the state and the country are specially arranged with fee and expense agreements tailored to the specific requirements.