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MEDIATION &
ARBITRATION
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Winer Meheula & Devens LLP has extensive experience representing
clients in mediation and arbitration proceedings. Over the
past several years, the firm members have participated in
well over one hundred arbitration and mediation proceedings
in cases involving motor vehicle accidents, construction defects,
premises liability, real estate contract disputes, real estate
agent and legal malpractice. In these cases, Winer Meheula
& Devens LLP has obtained numerous arbitration awards in
excess of $100,000 including a $1,800,000 arbitration award
in a construction dispute involving expansive soils and one
of Hawaii's largest punitive damages award in an employment
discrimination case. Furthermore, the firm has participated
in several mediations which have resulted in settlements exceeding
$1,000,000.
In addition to representing clients in mediations and arbitrations,
Andrew S. Winer has an active practice as a mediator and an
arbitrator. He has served on numerous arbitration panels in
cases involving employment law, commercial and real estate
disputes, construction law, medical malpractice, products
liability, premises liability and insurance coverage issues.
Mr. Winer has successfully mediated numerous commercial, real
estate, professional liability, personal injury and construction
suits, and he recently served on a Dispute Review Board for
construction issues involving the First Hawaiian Bank Tower.
Mr. Winer has a special interest in mediating wrongful discharge
and employment discrimination cases, and he has successfully
handled over thirty of these matters.
Mr. Winer serves as a neutral for the Distinguished Panel
of Neutrals for Dispute Prevention & Resolution (http://www.DPR4ADR.com),
the Hawaii Labor Relations Board's Arbitration Panel, the
Court Annexed Arbitration Program and the Fee Dispute Program
for the Hawaii State Bar Association. Mr. Winer has lectured
extensively on issues relating to alternative dispute resolution
to a variety of groups, he published "So You Really Want to
be an Arbitrator?" in the Hawaii Arbitration Law Program,
and he has successfully represented numerous arbitrators,
mediators and ADR providers in cases involving arbitral immunity
issues.
If you have any questions regarding the firm's representation
of clients in mediation or arbitration or Mr. Winer's availability
as a Mediator or an Arbitrator, then contact us at winer@pacificlaw.com.
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