Band 2
Provided by Rebecca Westerfield
• Accounting/Finance
• Arbitration
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• Business/Commercial
• Civil Rights
• Class Action/Mass Tort
• Cybersecurity & Privacy
• Employment
• Entertainment and Sports
• Environmental
• Estates/Probate/Trusts
• Federal Law
• Financial Markets
• Franchise
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• Health Care
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• International & Cross-Border
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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.
Active Member, State Bar of California
Member, ArbitralWomen, 2019
Advisor; Center for Advanced Mediation Practice; Bangalore, India; 2018
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Rebecca has shown a great ability to manage difficult personalities and effectively cut to the chase when appropriate. She is excellent at reading the room.
Rebecca is always prepared, knowledgeable, experienced and patient.
Rebecca brings a warm gravitas and humor as well as a keen intelligence, wisdom and creativity. She is also patient, curious and empathetic.
Rebecca has shown a great ability to manage difficult personalities and effectively cut to the chase when appropriate. She is excellent at reading the room.
Rebecca is always prepared, knowledgeable, experienced and patient.
Rebecca brings a warm gravitas and humor as well as a keen intelligence, wisdom and creativity. She is also patient, curious and empathetic.