Mediation Services
Joe Ramsey has mediated nearly 3,500 cases. He has accepted and continues to accept mediations of almost every type of civil dispute.
Between 1986 and 1997, Joe Ramsey was occupied primarily as a trial lawyer but was also accepting more and more requests to mediate civil disputes. In that time span, he estimates that he mediated between 150 and 200 cases. In addition, he served regularly as a volunteer pro tem settlement judge appointed by the Sacramento County Superior Court and helped resolve many cases for the Court. By early 1997, he was occupied nearly full time as a mediator or otherwise offering Alternative Dispute Resolution services and decided to devote his entire practice to ADR services.
Mister Ramsey has mediated a wide variety of civil disputes, including as examples:
- Agribusiness disputes
- Business disputes including typical contract and tort claims
- Construction defect claims based on contract, tort, and strict liability
- Employment claims of all types
- Environmental pollution
- Insurance coverage, duty to defend, and bad faith claims
- Intellectual property claims
- Landlord tenant
- Marital dissolution (money issues only)
- Personal injuries cases of all kinds (auto, premises, product liability)
- Probate and estate litigation
- Professional negligence of all kinds (accountant, architect, engineering, insurance agent/broker, legal, medical, securities dealer, realtor)
- Property claims including boundary, easement, and nuisance
- Real estate disputes (residential, commercial, light industrial)
- Sexual molestation and harassment
Mediation Training
In 1986, the American Arbitration Association invited Joe Ramsey to receive its training as a mediator of civil disputes. Within the next year, he received additional training from the AAA, and he began his mediation practice with referrals from the AAA.
In the early 1990s, the American Board of Trial Advocates conducted a two-day training seminar for the mediation of civil disputes which Joe Ramsey attended. Since then, he has attended periodic seminars on mediation offered by qualified California Continuing Legal Education providers.
In April of 2008, Joe Ramsey attended a two day advanced mediation training seminar in San Diego, California, provided by the Association of Attorney-Mediators (AAM), the only national organization of attorney mediators. He is a member of that organization. For more information about AAM, visit their web site.
In the Fall of 2009, he attended a 40 hour training seminar focused on Facilitative Model Mediation presented by The Facilitative Mediation Group. This model is especially helpful in resolving highly emotional disputes.
[top]