JAMS, The Resolution Experts, was voted “Best ADR Organization” by readers of the Bay Area legal newspaper The Recorder. Hon. Edward Infante and Hon. William Cahill were also voted “Best Individual Neutrals” in the same survey, which was published in December.

The publisher wrote: “Lawyers can be demanding clients, and businesses that earn their loyalty deserve special recognition.” JAMS is grateful for the recognition as “Best ADR Organization” and congratulates Judge Infante and Judge Cahill, who were singled out as exceptional neutrals in the “Individual Bay Area Mediator or Arbitrator” category. The Recorder’s poll of attorneys was conducted during the summer of 2008.

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JAMS, The Resolution Experts, the largest private provider of ADR Services in the United States, announced today that it has formed a Financial Markets Group, which consists of prominent mediators and arbitrators from the JAMS panel who are specially qualified to offer dispute resolution services for lawyers and their clients -- such as corporations and their directors and officers, banks and other lenders, investors, shareholders, borrowers and other parties -- involved in litigation stemming from the current credit and financial crisis.

The JAMS Financial Markets Group is headed by highly respected neutrals David Geronemus, Esq., Michael D. Young, Esq. and Hon. Daniel Weinstein (Ret.). The group includes some of JAMS’ most distinguished mediators and arbitrators from throughout the United States, including retired federal, state trial and appellate judges, and former litigators, all of whom have specific relevant dispute resolution and substantive experience.

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