“A balance point is very rarely, if at all, impossible; patience, discipline, and stamina are required.” – Michael Grab

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RÉSUMÉ

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Geri Lynn Green, Esq. is a certified mediator, arbitrator, and referee, highly skilled and experienced in both facilitative and evaluative dispute resolution styles. She provides face-to-face, virtual, and asynchronistic neutral services, specializing in complex high-conflict matters, with expertise in cross-cultural and cross-border disputes. In addition to three decades of courtroom experience, she has extensive training in crisis intervention, trauma, restorative justice, cross-cultural competence, and harm reduction, and is also a scholar of evidence and international law.

In 2013, Ms. Green began her dispute resolution practice after 30 years in private practice as a litigator and appellate lawyer, trying more than 100 state and federal cases to verdict and authoring over 150 civil, criminal, and quasi-criminal appeals in California and U.S. Circuit Courts. As an ADR professional, she has drawn upon her courtroom experience, academic background, and extensive training, along with her real-world business proficiency, to successfully resolve over 500 disputes. Ms. Green is known for her attentiveness to detail and her ability to break down complex legal issues and highly charged matters into manageable pieces. She is well-versed in working with families in crisis and with difficult personalities, including those suffering from substance abuse or mental health condition. She is respected by both plaintiffs and defendants, as well as families and businesses who choose to resolve their conflicts before commencing litigation.

Ms. Green has a keen understanding of governmental torts, personal injury, professional malpractice, employment, and law enforcement-related matters, from decades of work as a leading civil rights attorney and her work with the Department of Police Accountability and District Attorney’s Neighborhood Courts Program. She also possesses a breadth of experience with commercial disputes from her work as General Counsel for Devereaux Creek Properties, as well as experience in the fishing, farming, cannabis, golf, arts, and hospitality industries.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Personal Injury: Auto, Medical,& Dental Malpractice, Civil Rights, Government Tort, Insurance, Wrongful Death
Employment: Harassment, Discrimination, Wage & Hour
Business: Dissolution, Contract, Tort, Professional Malpractice, ADA
Real Estate:Landlord-Tenant (Business and Residential), HOA, TIC, Partition
Civil Rights: Law Enforcement/Public Entity, Fee Litigation
Family: Custody, Property Division, Partition, Cross-Border, High Conflict Dissolution, Elder Care
Discovery: Complex Cases, 5^th Amendment, Electronically Stored Information (ESI), Privileges &Trade Secrets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founding Attorney, Law Offices of Geri Lynn Green; Green & Green LLP (1987-Present)
Law Professor, Evidence, New College of California (1996-2001)
General Counsel, Ocean Meadows Golf Course/Devereaux Creek Properties (1994-2013)
Investigator, Mission Community Legal Defense (1979-1986)

EDUCATION

L.L.M., International Law, Golden Gate University School of Law with course work at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (2015)
J.D., UC Hastings College of the Law (1986)
B.A., University of California Santa Barbara (1977)
Strauss Institute For Dispute Resolution (2013)

AWARDS AND HONORS

Selected as a Super Lawyer annually since 2010
Rated Top Women Attorney in Northern California since 2010
Named to the Best Lawyers List for Civil Rights and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Eight-time honoree by the San Francisco District Attorney for her work as a Neighborhood Courts Adjudicator and outstanding commitment to improving the quality of life for San Franciscans

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND ADMISSIONS

California State Bar Arbitration/Mediation/Special Master
Certified Arbitrator (2018)
Certified Mediator (2013)
United States Supreme Court (1997) and various Federal Courts
California State Bar (1987)

ADR-RELATED APPOINTMENTS

Ms. Green serves as a Settlement Officer in the Superior Courts of San Francisco and Marin Counties; Mediator for the Superior Courts of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano Counties; Discovery Facilitator/Referee/Special Master for the State Bar of California, San Francisco and for Contra Costa County Superior Courts; Mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California; Mediator for the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District; Special Master for the California State Bar, Adjudicator for the San Francisco Neighborhood Courts; and serves on the ADR Administration Committee for the Alameda Superior Courts.

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION TRAINING

Ms. Green is a certified mediator and certified arbitrator, and a Special Master/Referee. She has completed over 300 hours of training in a wide variety of alternative dispute resolution disciplines, including specialized training modules in mediation, cross-cultural mediation, family mediation, techniques for conflict coaching, arbitration training, arbitration for intellectual property cases, mediation and arbitration of attorney’s fees, superior court settlement case officer training, advanced appellate mediation training, and international cross-border family mediation.

16-Hour International Cross-Border Family Mediation Training, Melissa Kucinski, UC Hastings, Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (June 29, 2021)
40-Hour Advanced Appellate Mediation Training – Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District Mediation Program, in conjunction with the National Conflict Resolution Center (May 22, 2021)
San Francisco Superior Court Settlement Case Officer Training
FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Arbitrator Certification Training
San Francisco Neighborhood Courts Mediation and Restorative Justice Skills Training – Continuous
Skills for Facilitative Leadership Training (PCRC)
20-Hour Arbitration Certificate Training (BASF)
Trauma and the Brain (DPA Mediation Program)
Non-Violent Communication (Oren Jay Sofer)
16-Hour Arbitration for IP Cases (California Lawyers for the Arts)
6-Hour Arts Mediation Training, (Cal Lawyers of the Arts)
16-Hour Conflict Coaching
16-Hour Techniques for Conflict Coaching (Advanced)
LEAP (Mental Illness) Communication (LEAP Institute/Xavier Amador) Forgiveness in Family Mediation: Healing Pain from the Past (Katharina Dress)
Adult Family Mediation: Transforming Family Feuds into Peaceful Partnerships (Katharina Dress)
40-Hour Basics of Mediation Certification (Community Boards)
40-Hour Alternative Dispute Resolution (GGU Law School)
40-Hour Cross-Cultural Mediation (Straus Institute/Pepperdine)
40-Hour Essentials of Mediation Certification (American Arbitration Association)
Annual Trainings in Crisis intervention (Bridgewatch Angels)

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

Ms. Green is a frequent guest lecturer to local bar associations, including the Bar Association of San Francisco and the Alameda County Bar Association, and law schools, including UC Hastings College of the Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, Stanford University School of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, and others. Ms. Green has also published articles in the Recorder, and authored reports and made presentations before the United Nations General Assembly and various treaty bodies. Ms. Green’s publications include:

• Reports and presentations to the U.N. General Assembly; Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice resulting in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 and the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in 2003.
• Demanding Our Rights, A Manual on Drafting United Nations Shadow Reports, co-author, 2007.
• The Quixotic Dilemma, California’s Immutable Culture of Incarceration, 2010, Pace Law Review.
• A Strike Against Qualified Immunity, October 1, 2010, The Recorder, co-authored with Sanford J. Rosen.

For a complete list of publications and press, please click here.

Professional Associations

Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM)
Alameda County Bar Association
Bar Association of San Francisco
American Bar Association, ADR Committee
California Lawyers for the Arts
Community Boards (Former Board President)
Peninsula Conflict Resolutions Center
San Francisco Pre-trial Diversion (Board of Directors)
The Doris Brin Walker Legislative Reform Committee, Conference of California Bar Associations
National Association of Drug Court Professionals