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Mr. McCauley is a full-time Mediator and Arbitrator, and an Adjunct Professor (Pepperdine Law School, Loyola Law School, UMKC Law School). He came to this profession more than 10 years ago from a background as a Harvard Law educated, AV rated, "Big Firm" trial and appellate advocate, handling complex, and sometimes precedent-making, commercial, employment, and real property matters including class actions. As a neutral, he has a reputation as a "quick study," able to use his broad legal background and his analytic abilities to find simplicity and bring conceptual organization to seemingly complicated disputes, and has been entrusted with resolving hundreds of such matters throughout the state, including multiple matters ranging in value from $10 million more than $1 billion. He finds special satisfaction in finding options to resolve cases thought to be intractable. Mr. McCauley has written and spoken extensively on the topic of negotiation dynamics in challenging cases and his efforts have brought recognition from his peers; he is listed as a "Southern California Superlawyer" and is listed in Best Lawyers in America for Alternative Dispute Resolution, as well as in the Martindale-Hubbell Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
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Areas Of Practice |
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Accident / Personal Injury |
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Arbitration |
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Civil |
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Commercial |
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Defamation |
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Employment |
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Environmental/Public Policy |
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Financial Services |
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Franchise |
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Franchising |
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Government |
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Home Owners Associations |
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Insurance Bad Faith |
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Insurance Claims |
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Intellectual property rights |
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International |
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Landlord/Tenant |
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Professional Malpractice |
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Real Estate |
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Representational Legal Practice |
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Rights of Way, boundaries and Adverse Possession |
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Securities |
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Shareholder disputes |
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Wills, Trusts & Estates |
IAM Member since
1999
Background
Mr. McCauley brings to mediation the benefit of his two decades of experience in complex Business, Employment and Real Estate litigation. His Business litigation has included securities fraud class actions, corporate and partnership dissolutions, business valuation, intellectual property, unfair competition, covenants not to compete, theft of trade secret, environmental, insurance coverage, breach of contract and business tort actions. His Employment litigation has included wrongful termination, sex, race and age discrimination, and sexual harassment actions, as well as wage & hour class actions. His Real Estate litigation has included deed of trust, judicial foreclosure, commercial unlawful detainer, breaches of real property sales agreement, brokerage commission and real property valuation actions.
Education/Training
Harvard Law School (JD, cum laude, 1980)
University of Pennsylvania (MA, 1974)
UC Irvine, (BA, 1971)
Fees
$6,000 per day inclusive of preparation time
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