WCRG Mediator

Hon. Don Armento, Ret.

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Hon. Don Armento Contact Case Manager Download CV Commissioner Armento has served the legal community as an attorney and judicial officer with passion and dignity for over 30 years. After nearly ten years on the bench, he retired from San Diego Superior Court in January 2018 and is now available to serve as mediator and ... Read more

Douglas H. Barker, Esq.

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Douglas H. Barker, Esq. Contact Case Manager Download CV Doug Barker was a very active and highly successful civil litigator from 1980 to 2014, both as a shareholder at San Diego’s largest law firm, and, thereafter, as the managing partner of a full service civil litigation firm. As a trial lawyer, he represented both plaintiffs ... Read more

Shaun K. Boss, Esq.

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Shaun K. Boss, Esq. Contact Case Manager Download CV Mr. Boss is a mediator, arbitrator and litigator using his experience of more than thirty years as a practicing attorney and real estate broker. Shaun also mediates and arbitrates business and construction disputes. He is a member of the San Diego County Superior Court mediation and ... Read more

Jim Chodzko, Esq.

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Jim Chodzko Contact Case Manager Download CV Prior to becoming a full time neutral in 2000, Mr. Chodzko spent 23 years as a civil litigator. His practice was devoted to representation of entities and individuals involved in, but not limited to insurance coverage, legal malpractice, serious personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, business, construction defect, ... Read more

Julie Cobalt, Esq.

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Julie Cobalt, Esq. Contact Case Manager Download CV Julie is an expert at mediating unconventional and unpredictable disputes, with over 25 years of experience resolving family, business and other relational conflicts. She is the mediator who lawyers and their clients rely on and trust to break the impasse and guide them to a satisfying result. ... Read more

Judy Copeland, Esq.

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Judy Copeland Contact Case Manager Download CV Judith (Judy) Copeland practiced law exclusively in the areas of probate, estate planning, trusts, conservatorships, guardianships, and elder law for 39 years. She authored two chapters of CEB’s California Will Drafting and has lectured extensively for a variety of legal organizations including CEB, the Rutter Group, the California ... Read more

Merrianne Dean, Esq.

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Merrianne Dean Contact Case Manager Download CV Merrianne Dean has nearly three decades of courtroom experience litigating probate and trust disputes, financial elder abuse matters, conservatorships and business disputes. She has served as a court-appointed attorney representing developmentally disabled and elderly individuals who are the subject of conservatorships before the probate court. She has been ... Read more

John Edwards, Esq.

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John Edwards Contact Case Manager Download CV John Edwards is a nationally recognized speaker and mediation trainer. An AV-rated trial lawyer for many years, John became a full-time neutral in 2014 and mediates cases throughout Southern California. During John’s mediation training at Harvard Law School, he was introduced to interest-based negotiating as articulated in “Getting ... Read more

Beth Golub, Esq.

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Beth Golub Contact Case Manager Download CV Ms. Golub has been a licensed attorney since 1986. She has substantial experience in litigating and trying cases in the areas of medical malpractice, employment, personal injury, elder abuse, and construction defect and homeowner association law. She has also successfully mediated and arbitrated numerous insurance related disputes in ... Read more

Robert J. Hanna, Esq.

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Robert J. Hanna, Esq. Contact Case Manager Download CV Robert J. Hanna, Esq. joins West Coast Resolution Group’s Real Estate Panel following a 45-year legal career focusing on real estate, construction, and title insurance litigation. Mr. Hanna is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law and recently retired ... Read more