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Steven M. McCarthy has vigorously represented his clients in a variety of matters since 1979, from legal advice to negotiation, settlement, trial and appeal. His main practice areas include serious personal injury, wrongful death, property damage, vehicular and equestrian accidents, negligence, medical, legal, veterinary and other kinds of professional malpractice; dangerous premises, police misconduct, defective products, elder and fiduciary abuse, fraud, intentional physical violence by firearms, battery, and sexual harrassment; in addition to other areas of tort litigation, and misdemeanor and felony criminal defense.
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| Mediation and Arbitration |
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With ever-increasing costs, lengthy delays, limited judicial resources, and the loss of control of the outcome by submitting an issue to a judge or jury, litigation is often not the most productive way to resolve disputes. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) including mediation and arbitration, is thus the preferred road to expedient resolution unless money is simply no object. But there are problems and benefits with any dispute resolution process, which only substantial experience can identify and avoid.
For decades, Mr. McCarthy has devoted a significant amount of his career to providing fair, impartial, expedient, amicable, and successful conflict settlement services, both as a volunteer settlement commissioner in the judicial system and professionally to private individuals, business entities, and their lawyers. He started his service as a judge pro tempore in California in 1981, obtaining a solid foundation in judicial decisionmaking. With substantial trial, appellate, and life experience, he knows the workings of justice system in depth and what may happen to litigants in it. As a settlement commissioner and ADR provider, he has been able to employ that knowledge and insight to the advantage of all in facilitating meaningful settlements and resolutions, before the parties risk the costs and lose control of the outcome in the courtroom; very often saving substantial investments of time and resources.
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Mr. McCarthy is admitted to practice law in the Courts of the State of California (1979); the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1979); the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2002); and the U.S. Supreme Court (2005), and the State of Oregon (May, 2008).
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