Judge Michael Marcus (Ret.) has a well-deserved reputation throughout California as a skilled, personable, and forceful mediator and a fair and impartial arbitrator, having been honored by the Daily Journal as a “Top Neutral” for six years and as a “Southern California Super Lawyer” since 2008. He has mediated over 3,000 matters, arbitrated more than 100 cases, and brings an extremely broad legal background to his ADR practice. He was a judge, a successful trial lawyer, a former law firm partner, has taught evidence and trial tactics at law schools, and is a legal author.

Since 2002, Judge Marcus has successfully mediated employment (including discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, whistleblowing, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour, PAGA, and class action), commercial/business (including partnership disputes), legal malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death, real property, premises liability, product liability, construction defect, intellectual property, medical malpractice, eminent domain, police misconduct, and civil rights. He has also arbitrated employment, commercial, real property, partnership, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, personal injury, and fee disputes. Judge Marcus has been appointed by Judges of the Los Angeles and Orange County Superior Courts to resolve discovery disputes. He has served as a Judge of the California State Bar Court and Supervising Judge of the State Bar Court Hearing Department. In his six years on the State Bar Court, Judge Marcus presided over approximately 160 trials involving such issues as breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, conflicts of interest, failure to perform competently, misappropriation, and client abandonment; wrote lengthy decisions containing findings of fact and conclusions of law for each trial; and was involved in over 400 settlement conferences.

Judge Marcus can be reached through his Case Manager at ADR Services, Inc., Christie Woo, at christie@adrservices.com or (310)201-0010.