Rebecca Westerfield

Practice Areas

• Accounting/Finance

• Arbitration

• Banking

• Business/Commercial

• Civil Rights

• Class Action/Mass Tort

• Cybersecurity & Privacy

• Employment

• Entertainment and Sports

• Environmental

• Estates/Probate/Trusts

• Federal Law

• Financial Markets

• Franchise

• Governmental/Public Agency

• Health Care

• Insurance

• International & Cross-Border

• Life Sciences

• Personal Injury/Torts

• Professional Liability

• Real Property

• Securities

• Technology

Career

Rebecca Westerfield is a founding member of JAMS and has been a full-time neutral with JAMS since 1992. She has mediated and arbitrated thousands of complex U.S. domestic and cross-border civil disputes.

Judge Westerfield is widely known as a tenacious and effective mediator. Counsel have been impressed with her patience, analytical ability, clarity, flexibility, and determination.

She has presented at numerous international programs on mediation in Asia, Europe and Latin America, taught as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and lectured at Stanford University Law School. She is particularly interested in the use of mediation skills and techniques in the making of public policy and in cross-cultural communication.

Professional Memberships

Active Member, State Bar of California

Member, ArbitralWomen, 2019

Advisor; Center for Advanced Mediation Practice; Bangalore, India; 2018