Creative Dispute Resolution
Hon.
Warren C. Conklin
Education
Mediation, a Skills Based
Program, CJER, Continuing Judicial Studies Program January 2001
Mediation Skills, CJER, Continuing Judicial Studies Program, August 1996
University of California, Boalt Hall, J.D. Law 1964
University of California, Berkeley, B.S., Business
Administration (Finance) 1960
Judicial Experience
ADR Private
Practice (Mediator, Arbitrator, Special Master, Neutral Evaluator)
1996 to present
Special Master-Marin Superior Court-1991 to present
Monitoring the court settlement
in the Buck Trust Litigation
Judge of the Superior Court-San Luis Obispo
County-1982-1991
Presiding Judge 1984, 1985, 1989,
1990, 1991
Justice (pro tem) Court of
Appeal-Fifth District 1982
Judge of the Municipal Court-San Luis Obispo
County- 1975-1982
Presiding Judge 1975, 1977, 1980
Judge of the Justice Court- San Luis Obispo
County-1967-1975
Extra Curricular
Member – California Judicial Council 1971-1975;
advisory member 1990-1991
Member – California Judges’ Association
1975-present
President of CJA- 1990-1991
Secretary-Treasurer- 1989-1990;
1996-1997
Member, CJA Executive Committee-
1988-1991 (District VII);
1994-1997 (Retired judges)
Chair,Court Administration
Committee - 1987-1988
Chair, Education, Planning and Coordinating Committee - 1986 -1987
Member, Education, Planning and Coordinating Committee - 1984 –1986
Faculty-California
Judicial College (CJER) “Judicial Leadership and Responsibility” - 1991
“Court Administration and Calendar Management” 1978 - 1980
“Selected Subjects for Municipal and Justice Courts” 1974 - 1977
Faculty –
Continuing Judicial Studies Program (CJER) (Mid career judges’ college)
“Advanced Civil Law and Procedure – Legal and functional
issues pertaining to Settlement Conferences” 1995-1998 “Civil Settlement
Conferences” 1987-1995 “Civil Proceedings” 1986, “Civil Trials” 1984,1986
Author – CJER materials- “Tort liability and the
Law of Good Faith Settlements”; “Workers’ Compensation Issues in Settlement Conferences”’ and co-author of “Proposition 51 and the Developing Law of Joint Tortfeasor Liability”
Moderator –
Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) “Negotiating Favorable Personal Injury
Settlements” 1986
Since 1996, as an independent
neutral, Judge Conklin has worked with more than 300 different attorneys in
resolving disputes. In his private practice, about one-third (1/3) of the
matters Judge Conklin has mediated or arbitrated have involved construction,
real estate and business matter, one-third (1/3) personal injury and wrongful
death, and the remainder across a broad range of topics.
Judge Conklins primary focus has
been construction contract or defect issues, including case management
(approximately 1/3 of the caseload), personal injury and wrongful death actions,
including comparative fault analysis and worker’s compensation offsets
(approximately ¼ of the caseload), and business and contract matters, real
estate contract and development cases (approximately 1/5 of the caseload). He
has successfully mediated cases with disparate subject matters ranging from
private corporate dissolution to sexual harassment in an employment context.
Other dispute resolutions have involved such varied issues as governmental
activity, mobile home park law, estates, trusts and conservatorships.
Additionally, since he retired from the bench, he has
served as a trial judge in state court cases seeking petitions for a writ of
mandate invoking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). He was
assigned in 2001 as judge in a lawsuit petitioning for class action status in
San Luis Obispo County.
He served as Special Master in the Buck Trust litigation
in Marin County,
California from October, 1991 thru December, 2001.
