Seth has been ranked by Chambers USA for 20 years. He was twice named California Securities Litigation Attorney of the Year by Benchmark Litigation; a “Top 100 Lawyer” by the Daily Journal; and recognized by Best Lawyers in America in four categories: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy), and Litigation – Securities, and named Los Angeles Lawyer of the Year three times. He was recognized by Who’s Who Legal: California as one of the top 34 commercial litigators in California; by the Daily Journal as one of the top 30 securities litigators in California; and Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and “100 Securities Litigators You Need to Know.”

Seth is the author or co-author of numerous articles and handbooks, including the definitive treatise “Shareholder Derivative Actions: From Cradle to Grave.” Seth has been a frequent moderator and panelist for Practising Law Institute; American Bar Association; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; and Federal Bar Association. Seth took the baton from Hon. Stanley Sporkin and has moderated the annual “Ethics for the Securities Lawyer” program of the Los Angeles County Bar Assoc. Securities Regulation Institute for the past several years.

A recognized leader in the legal community, Seth has served as the President of Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Association of Business Trial Lawyers and Chancery Club of Los Angeles. He has served on the boards of Loyola Law School and UCLA School of Public Affairs. Seth was heavily involved in the creation of the Los Angeles Superior Court Complex Courts, serving as the initial Chair of the LA County Bar Assoc. Complex Courts Committee. Seth also established the O’Melveny & Myers Scholarship at Loyola Law School for deserving students who might not otherwise afford a legal education.

Seth argued and won a US Supreme Court victory in a much-watched class action case, obtaining a unanimous Court decision that significantly narrows the tolling provisions established decades ago in the Court’s landmark American Pipe decision. China Agritech v. Resh, 2018 WL 2767565 (June 11, 2018).

In November 2021, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, the oldest and largest legal aid organization in California, honored Seth with its Maynard Toll Award for Distinguished Public Service. This award honors members of the bar whose exemplary record of public service and commitment to legal services for the poor are in the best traditions of the legal profession.

Seth previously volunteered his time as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association. Throughout his career, Seth has been praised for designing creative settlements of complex cases.

Seth received his B.A. from Ohio University and his J.D. from Loyola Law School. While in high school Seth worked evenings and weekends as an usher at Carnegie Hall. Seth was on the boxing and lacrosse teams at Ohio U. During his college summers he was a beach lifeguard in Virginia Beach, VA.

Seth and his wife Valerie currently reside in Newport Beach, California. They have three grown sons and two grandchildren, all of whom reside in Southern California. A noted car enthusiast, Seth can be spotted driving the canyons and coastline of California and on his annual pilgrimage to Monterey Car Week.

Judge Bonner is currently engaged in ADR services, including mediation and arbitration. Judge Bonner is affiliated with Phillips ADR’s distinguished panel of neutrals. He is also a member of the American Arbitration Association’s Master Mediation Panel.  He is a member of the American Arbitration Association panel of neutrals as well as FedArb’s former federal judges panel of arbitrators.  Judge Bonner is a former partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he specialized in high stakes and complex civil litigation.

Besides serving as a United States District Judge, Judge Bonner’s government service includes heading several federal agencies, including Commissioner of U.S. Customs Service and, following the homeland security reorganization, as the first Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for securing the United States’ borders. Prior to that, Bonner was the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

In private practice, Bonner engaged in a wide array of civil litigation matters, ranging from commercial and contract disputes to antitrust, securities, construction, intellectual property and environmental litigation. He co-chaired Gibson Dunn’s white collar practice group and was involved in defending individuals and corporations being investigated by government authorities.

Judge Bonner has arbitrated and mediated a wide variety of disputes, including securities, antitrust, contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and intellectual property issues.

Judge Bonner is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of Caltech’s Board of Trustees and the Chair of its Audit and Compliance Committee. He is the former chair of the California Commission on Judicial Performance.

Judge Bonner received his B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Maryland and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Before embarking on his legal career, Elliot received his A.B. degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1985 where he was a John Harvard Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was awarded a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities to continue his studies in the philosophy of science in Princeton University’s doctoral program.

In graduate school, Elliot was introduced to game theory and the early works of Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on bargaining and cognitive bias. Those studies sparked his enduring interest in the empirical study of decision-making and bargaining, a field that he has found to be an invaluable source of tools for resolving complex disputes.

After obtaining his MA in 1987, Elliot left Princeton for Harvard Law School. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and a research assistant for Dean Robert Clark. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1990.

Elliot subsequently clerked in S.D.N.Y for the Hon. Pierre N. Leval (now on the Second Circuit), a renowned scholar of U.S. copyright law and author of the transformative fair use test adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following his clerkship, Elliot joined Irell. He became a partner in 1996, and the firm’s managing partner in 2009.

Elliot has represented plaintiffs, defendants and third-party intervenors in disputed matters involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, rights of publicity, idea theft, and unfair competition as well as in matters involving business torts, antitrust, and breach of contract. His clients have ranged from Fortune 50 technology companies, movies studios, major record labels, and the world’s top video game companies to privately held startups, law firms and individuals. He has led matters in federal trial and appellate courts around the nation, in California’s state courts, in ITC proceedings and in ICC and AAA arbitrations. He has handled numerous matters involving business and consumer software, semiconductor design and packaging, video games, consumer electronics, advertising, motion pictures, search engines, social media sites, music, publishing, non-operating entities, memory and storage, fine art, medical devices and pharmaceutical delivery systems.

While he was his firm’s managing partner, Elliot assumed additional responsibility for his firm’s business including strategic and financial planning, a technology overhaul, lease negotiations, risk management and insurance matters, lateral acquisitions and expansion, and alternative fee arrangements. He was the firm’s designated tax partner and “client” in firm-related legal matters. During his tenure, Irell was named to Amlaw’s A-List in recognition of the firm’s financial performance, pro bono work, associate satisfaction and diversity.

Elliot’s professional accolades include being recognized by Best Lawyers in America in the areas of IP litigation, Patent, and Copyright law (since 2006) and being named as a California Super Lawyer (since 2004). In 2017, Best Lawyers named him the Los Angeles Copyright Lawyer of Year.

Elliot has taught at numerous CLE events and has done presentations on IP law and the business of law firms at Harvard Law School. He recently co-taught the advanced copyright seminar at UCLA Law School with Professor David Nimmer. He has periodically acted as a legal consultant on motion pictures including Runaway Jury and Fair Game.

Throughout his career, Elliot has volunteered substantial pro bono time to help veterans, victims of domestic violence, and the elderly poor. He has been a member of the board of the LA Legal Aid Foundation for over a decade.

In 1988, Greg moved his practice to the Securities Litigation Group at Weil Gotshal & Manges and became co-head of the Group in 1998. At Weil, he continued to litigate M&A cases around the country, including high-profile Delaware matters from Blasius, to Macmillan, to CBS. He also handled large securities class actions and SEC investigations, defending among others, GE (in more than a dozen securities class actions and derivative cases in multiple state and federal courts), Campbell’s, and Genworth. Greg served on the Management Committees at both Kramer Levin and Weil Gotshal.

During his time at Weil, Greg also represented and counseled boards, audit committees, and special board committees at some of the country’s largest corporations, including General Motors, American Express, Qualcomm, JP Morgan, Sears, Massey Energy, and many others, in addition to counseling and litigating on behalf of Weil’s most significant corporate and private equity clients in connection with securities law and fiduciary duty issues, including those arising in connection with financial distress and bankruptcy.

Greg looks forward to working with counsel to resolve complex securities class actions, fiduciary duty and M&A cases, as well as cases involving financial distress.

After four years as a litigation associate with Jones Day Reavis & Pogue in Los Angeles, Judge Feess served with distinction in the United States Attorney’s Office from 1979 to 1989 in its Criminal Division. During his tenure he served as Assistant Division Chief, Major Crimes, Assistant Division Chief, Major Frauds, First Assistant Division Chief, Chief Assistant United States Attorney and, in 1989, Acting United States Attorney. As an Assistant United States Attorney he investigated and prosecuted major mail fraud, wire fraud and securities fraud violations, public corruption matters, criminal tax cases, and serious street crime cases including several involving assaults using improvised explosive devices. He tried more than 35 cases to verdict achieving convictions in all but one of them.

From 1990 to 1992, Judge Feess was a partner with Jones Day LA, where he was the head of the litigation group. During that period, he also served as Deputy General Counsel to the Christopher Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department and participated in drafting the Commission’s final report to the Mayor, City Council, and Chief of Police. From 1992 to 1996, Judge Feess was a litigation partner at the then-recently formed law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Oliver. At both firms, he was lead counsel on major business litigation for corporations such as TRW Inc., Hughes Electronics, and Parsons Engineering. A major portion of his practice was devoted to the defense of False Claims Act litigation brought under the Act’s qui tam provisions.

In 1996, Judge Feess was appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court where he served for three years. In 1999, he was nominated by President Clinton to serve as a United States District Judge in Los Angeles, California. During his more than 15 years on the federal bench, Judge Feess presided over several hundred criminal prosecutions and more than 6,000 civil lawsuits, including many disputes involving intellectual property rights, securities and corporate governance, and rights under government contracts. For ten years, Judge Feess presided over the implementation of the federal consent decree that mandated substantial reforms of the Los Angeles Police Department, and handled more than 200 federal civil rights actions arising from the Rampart Division Scandal. During his nearly 19 years of service as a judge on the state and federal courts, Judge Feess presided over between 200 and 300 trials.

Judge Feess has been active in the Judge Paul R. Michel Intellectual Property Inn of Court since its inception. He served as its Counsel in 2011, and its President in 2012 and 2013. He has served on several panels dealing with current issues in patent litigation. Judge Feess has presided over hundreds of intellectual property disputes, including cases involving patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks. He has handled patent cases involving mobile wireless networks, forensic software, complex movie camera systems, laser dental technology, devices used in ophthalmological surgery, and business methods with implications under the Hatch Waxman Act.

In the copyright arena, Judge Feess presided over disputes regarding ownership and copyright infringement issues relating to major motion pictures, including Watchmen , We Are Marshall and The Dukes of Hazard , and numerous television programs including The Biggest Loser, Big Brother, Heroes and Vegas. Judge Feess also handled many trademark infringement and counterfeiting cases including suits brought by Chloe and other luxury brand owners against a Saudi Arabian business catering to manufacturers of so-called “replica” products, and a series of 1400 lawsuits brought by Altria Group over the manufacture and sale of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes.

During his tenure on the district court, Judge Feess also presided over two MDL air crash cases – the crash of Singapore Airline Flight 006 during takeoff from Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2000, and the Spanair crash of flight 5022 on takeoff from Madrid, Spain, in August of 2002. In addition, he also presided over a series of consolidated cases involving a helicopter crash in the Idaho wilderness in 2010 during a wildlife survey.

Judge Feess received his B.A. from Ohio State University cum laude and with distinction in history in 1970. He was the recipient of a University Fellowship in history in 1970 at the University of California, and received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 1974, where he was a member of the Law Review from 1972 to 1974. Judge Feess is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif honorary societies.

Known for his preparation, detail-oriented analysis and interactive approach to resolving tough cases, Judge Garcia now focuses his legal practice in the area of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration, in-depth case evaluation, and mock trial services.

Judge Garcia had eighteen years of litigation experience before being appointed to the bench in 2002. This experience includes significant trials in the New Mexico District Court, as well as appeals before the New Mexico Court of Appeals and New Mexico Supreme Court. He also practiced before the federal district court in the district of New Mexico, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Tax Court. As lead counsel, he tried cases in the areas of civil and criminal tax liability, contested will and probate administration, real estate disputes, business transaction disputes, and felony criminal defense.

After appointment to the trial court bench in 2002, Judge Garcia presided over hundreds of civil and criminal trials. The majority involved felony criminal trials, including one death penalty prosecution. The balance involved civil litigation. In the civil docket, Judge Garcia presided over numerous major trials, including high-profile cases involving wrongful death, personal injury, product liability, major catastrophes, and class action lawsuits.

After appointment to the court of appeals in 2009, Judge Garcia authored hundreds of majority opinions, including numerous Fourth and Fifth Amendment cases and other felony criminal appeals. Noteworthy opinions authored on the civil calendar included bad faith insurance claims, civil rights claims, workers’ compensation claims, state and federal constitutional interpretations, remittitur of large jury verdicts, the unconscionability of nursing home contracts, and the strict standing requirements for enforcing foreclosure lawsuits.

Judge Garcia also sat by designation on the New Mexico Supreme Court to address two cases: an administrative utility appeal from the Public regulation Commission and a sovereign immunity appeal under the New Mexico Tort Claims Act.

Judge Garcia also has a life-long background in the sport of tennis. He competed in college at the University of New Mexico where he achieved All-American honors and later played as an ATP touring professional before entering law school in 1981. He also assists the United States Tennis Association in numerous capacities, including serving as the chairman over the administrative hearing and grievance process before the USTA Grievance Committee in 2013-14. He also served as Southwest Section president in 2016-17, and two terms as a national counsel chair for youth tennis in America from 2015-present. Judge Garcia is a designated arbitration panel member for USTA arbitration cases.

A seasoned trial lawyer, Andra’s practice encompassed a wide range of complex business litigation matters, with an emphasis on class action defense and professional liability defense. Her extensive trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts also extends to commercial, wage and hour, employment, business torts, insurance coverage, real estate, lender liability, executive compensation, environmental issues, securities litigation,, white collar criminal claims and all types of intellectual property litigation. Andra frequently represented other lawyers and law firms when they needed counsel.

Andra’s victories on behalf of her clients have led to such accolades as being named one of the “Top Women Lawyers in California” by the Daily Journal five times. In 2018, the Orange County Women Lawyers Association named her Attorney of the Year. She was also recognized as the “2018 Orange County Bet-the-Company ‘Lawyer of the Year’” by Best Lawyers in America. In 2017, Andra was honored with the Marcus Kaufman Jurisprudence Award from the Orange County/Long Beach region of the Anti-Defamation League. In 2016, Andra was named among the “Top 50 Women Lawyers” in the nation by the National Diversity Council.
Andra has spoken or presented at numerous CLE programs on trial practice, class action litigation and settlement, professional liability and gender issues in the practice of law. Andra also periodically teaches an advanced seminar on successfully litigating class actions in federal court at UC Irvine School of Law. She has published numerous articles on trial practice, class actions, professional responsibility and gender and the legal profession.  She co-edited the book The Woman Advocate, published by the American Bar Association.

Throughout her career, Andra has volunteered substantial pro bono time, particularly on behalf of the homeless. In 2010, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California awarded Andra and her team the 2010 Social Justice Award for their outstanding pro bono work securing a major victory on behalf of the local homeless community. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Public Law Center.

Andra has held leadership positions in numerous professional organizations.  For example, she is a past president of the Federal Bar Association, Orange County Chapter, a former Co-Chair of the Central District of California Lawyer Representatives, and a past member of the Council of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association.

Andra graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a degree in Economics.  Andra received her law degree from Harvard Law School.  Following her graduation, Andra clerked for the Honorable Catherine B. Kelly, District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Andra then spent four years at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Washington, D.C. before heading west to join Irell & Manella.

An avid fitness enthusiast, Andra is a registered yoga instructor.  She especially enjoys teaching yoga classes to members of the legal profession. Andra and her husband have four grown children, one granddaughter, and two Siberian Huskies.

Before joining Phillips ADR, Mr. Helm was a nationally-recognized trial lawyer and appellate advocate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. He specialized in complex disputes involving asset management firms and their portfolio companies; entertainment and intellectual property; trade secrets and employee mobility; claims against law firms; and the duties of directors, officers, and shareholders. His wide-ranging practice over the years also included antitrust, mass torts, environmental law, insurance, and investigations, and he once served as outside general counsel for a public company. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Helm was co-managing partner of the firm, and he was named in 2008 as one of Lawdragon’s “100 Managing Partners You Need to Know.”

Mr. Helm is the immediate past chair of the board of directors of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles and is president of the board of directors of the Ojai Playwrights Conference. He is a former co-chair of the ABA Litigation Section’s Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, a former chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee, and a former adjunct professor at Loyola Law School. Active for many years in efforts to diversify the legal profession, he was on the team of lawyers who developed the “Mansfield Rule” for the Stanford Law School Women in Law Hackathon in 2016. More recently, he served as an NGO observer of terrorism prosecutions before the Military Commission at Guantanamo Bay on behalf of the Pacific Council on International Policy, of which he is a member.

Mr. Helm clerked for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger on the United States Supreme Court and Judge Carl McGowan on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before attending law school, Mr. Helm worked for a year as the political speechwriter for Mayor Kevin H. White of Boston.

Mr. Helm graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review and received the Sears Prize. He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude in government, where he received the Wendell Phillips Award for oratory, the Detur Book Prize, and the John Harvard Scholarship.

A lover of jazz and blues music, Mr. Helm has regularly attended the New Orleans Jazz Festival for over a quarter century, and he plays jazz piano with more enthusiasm than ability. He has grown twin daughters, one an actor and television writer in Los Angeles and the other a fiction writer and podcast host in Brooklyn. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Cathy, also a lawyer, and their two dogs.

He served on the firm’s Management Committee, as Co-Chair of its Litigation Department for twelve years, and as Chair of its Ethics Committee for twenty-seven years. His client representations embraced a broad range of commercial litigations, arbitrations, mediations and internal investigations, including disputes relating to contracts, purchases and sales of businesses, corporate governance, derivative and class action claims, international treaties, securities claims, patents and other intellectual property, consumer fraud, accountant liability and mass torts.

Numerous publications have recognized John as a leading disputes lawyer. Chambers USA has described him as “an extraordinary commercial litigator” whose “instincts and analysis are always spot-on” (2021). Clients have praised his “great judgment” (2010) and recognized him as “technically excellent” (2009), “incredibly creative,” “great when put in front of a board of directors” (2012) and a “superb litigator” (2011). Peers have described him as “an extremely bright, first-class litigator, thinker and colleague” (2008) and a “superstar” who applies a “deft touch rather than a sledgehammer” in commercially sensitive matters (2007). Clients have also said he is “very balanced, and has real gravitas. He’s as cool as can be in incredibly intense situations” (2020). In addition, IFLR Benchmark Litigation Guide has ranked John among the leading commercial litigators in the United States and in New York each year since 2010 and noted “his extensive experience and breadth of knowledge.” The Legal 500 US (2017) has recognized him as a leading securities litigator, and numerous other “Best Lawyers” publications have identified him as a leading litigator for commercial matters or alternative methods of dispute resolution.

John is the Board Chair of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and Co-Chair of the Inner City Scholarship Fund, Lawyers Division. He has also chaired the Boards of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), Legal Services-New York City, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Volunteers of Legal Service, the Justice Resource Center and the New York City Bankruptcy Assistance Project (which he co-founded). He has additionally served as a director or trustee of the City Bar Justice Center, New York Alliance for the Public Schools, Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, United Way of Pelham, NY, the Pelham Art Center, the Federal Bar Council, the Village Board of Pelham Manor, the International Senior Lawyers Project and the Point O’Woods, NY Association. He served for 15 years as a volunteer coordinator for the AmeriCares/HomeFront home rehabilitation project, and for 28 seasons as a travel soccer coach.

John’s public contributions have included service as President of the New York City Bar Association, Village Trustee and Mayor of Pelham Manor, New York, Chair of the New York Chief Judge’s ADR Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of the Chief Judge’s Task Force on Hurricane Disaster Relief, and member of the NYS Permanent Commission on Access to Justice, the NYS Commercial Division Advisory Council, the Chief Judge’s Committee on Non-Lawyers and the Justice Gap, and the Legal Services Corporation‘s Leadership Council and Disaster Task Force.

John has spoken at numerous seminars and written numerous articles on substantive issues in litigation, approaches to resolving complex disputes and discovery. He is the co-editor of The Litigation Manual (ABA, 3rd ed., 1999) and a contributing author of the “Contracts” chapter of New York Business Litigation (ALM 2014) and the “Mediation” chapter of Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (Thomson Reuters, 4th ed., 2015). He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at New York University Law School.

John received his B.A. in 1976 magna cum laude from Harvard and his J.D. in 1980 magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. From 1980–81, he served as a law clerk to Hon. Walter R. Mansfield, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Greg was born and raised in California. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating summa cum laude in 1975. He majored in economics with a focus on law and economics. He continued his studies at the University of Chicago Law School, where he worked closely with renowned professor (now Judge) Richard Posner. He received his J.D. degree in 1978, and returned to California.

Greg joined Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles in June, 1978, and spent the next thirty years of his career with the firm, becoming a partner in 1986 and ultimately serving as the Managing Partner of the San Francisco office for seven years. He also served two terms on the firm’s Global Executive Committee.

At Latham, Greg specialized in complex litigation, handling major matters in a wide array of substantive areas, including antitrust, unfair competition, business torts, securities fraud, intellectual property, real estate and employment law. He tried more than 30 cases and was elected to the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1998. Among many courtroom accomplishments, he was co-lead counsel in the landmark case, United States v Oracle Corporation, which the National Law Journal selected as the “Defense Verdict of the Year” for 2004. He was named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” each year for more than a decade.

In 2008, Greg retired from Latham and joined his longtime client, The Irvine Company, as General Counsel. Over the next four years, his duties expanded to include responsibility for all administrative functions of the company, including Legal, Finance and Accounting, Tax, Information Technology, Human Resources, Risk Management, Marketing, Communications and Strategic Planning.

Throughout his tenure at The Irvine Company, Greg served as a member of the four-person Office of the Chairman, which oversaw the entire operations of the company. Finally, he acted as a Corporate Secretary and the primary liaison with the Board of Directors and the Audit, Governance and Compensation Committees. Greg retired from The Irvine Company at the end of 2011.

While in private practice, and later as a general counsel, Greg was an active proponent of alternative dispute resolution, participating in dozens of mediations and arbitrations. His commitment to the efficient out-of-court resolution of business disputes prompted him to become a full-time alternative dispute resolution professional in 2012. After completing training with Pepperdine/Straus Institute and the International Institute for Conflict, Prevention and Resolution (CPR), he gained extensive experience participating in public service ADR programs for the Superior Courts of San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Solano Counties and ultimately the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2012, he affiliated with Judicate West and proceeded to develop a statewide practice in California, specializing in business and commercial matters.

Greg joined Phillips ADR at its inception in November, 2014, and has built a national mediation practice specializing in complex litigation, including antitrust and unfair competition, securities, intellectual property and commercial disputes. He has mediated more than 250 cases, achieving settlements in excess of $100 million in many matters. A representative sampling of public settlements mediated by Greg during his tenure at Phillips ADR is attached.

Prior to joining Phillips ADR, Niki served as Vice President Client Strategy & Development of a national class action claims administrator. Prior to that position, Niki worked with a national class action law firm, where for nearly 15 years she litigated and resolved some of the firm’s most notable securities fraud and complex commercial cases.

As counsel in several high-profile and ground-breaking matters, she assisted in structuring and obtaining court approval of settlements nationwide. Her career includes representing defendants in insurance and employment litigation in both Hawaii and California, and serving as a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, in which she earned the Distinguished Service Award.

Niki graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Oregon School of Law, in which she served as Managing Editor of the Oregon Law Review. Niki is a frequent invited speaker and author, and she serves in various volunteer roles and board positions.

As Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of the NBA, Mr. Mishkin oversaw every aspect of the NBA’s legal affairs, including all litigation, labor relations, commercial transactions, legislation and enforcement of the league’s intellectual property rights and its anti-drug program, personally trying and arguing the NBA’s most important cases. He was involved in every round of collective bargaining negotiations between the NBA and the union and directed the NBA’s legal effort in its 1998-1999 labor dispute with NBA players.

At Skadden, in addition to representing the NBA, Mr. Mishkin’s practice expanded to include representation of the PGA TOUR, National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, National Collegiate Athletic Association, United States Tennis Association, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Collegiate Licensing Association, Madison Square Garden, New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets, Bostin Celtics, Phoenix Suns, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, St. Louis Cardinals and many other sports organizations. Mr. Mishkin also represented high-profile athletes, including the then number-one-ranked golfer in the world in a dispute against his former sponsor.

In addition to representing entities and individuals in sports-related disputes, Mr. Mishkin has served as an arbitrator and mediator of disputes involving all aspects of sports law, including business and commercial disputes, employment matters, eligibility issues, and matters involving the interpretation of various sports organizations’ rules. He has served for many years as an arbitrator on the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the leading international arbitral forum for sports-related legal issues. In 2022, Mr. Mishkin was appointed as one of eight arbitrators to hear doping disputes in U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Sport, and he previously served as Chair of the Arbitration Panel for the 35th American’s Cup. He also has experience mediating disputes involving sports organizations, athletes, and sports agents.

Mr. Mishkin is recognized as one of the most preeminent sports practitioners in the United States and around the world. He has been listed repeatedly for sports law in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America, including being named 2020, 2018 and 2012 New York Sports Law Lawyer of the Year. He also was named as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal 2023, as a Sports MVP by Law 360 in 2015, as a leading lawyer in The Legal 500 in 2015 and 2016, and as a Power Player in sports law in 2016 by Sports Business Journal. He was named as one of the Most Highly Regarded Individuals by The International Who’s Who of Sports & Entertainment Lawyers 2013 and was included in Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.

After graduating number one in her law school class at University of Toledo College of Law, Amanda began her legal career in private practice. She represented domestic and Bermuda insurance companies before moving in- house to join the claims team of a large, international insurer specializing in directors’ and officers’ liability, professional liability, and other specialty liability lines of business. Amanda ultimately advanced to the position of Vice President, overseeing, and directly handling, claims against financial firms and commercial entities of all sizes, from small, family-owned enterprises to Fortune 500 clients and large private equity firms. In that role, Amanda was involved in many high-profile litigation matters. She has been an active participant in hundreds of mediations and resolved hundreds of claims and coverage disputes through direct party-to-party negotiations.

Amanda brings to Phillips ADR specialized knowledge in securities litigation, Delaware derivative and corporate governance-related litigation, corporate bankruptcy/ adversary litigation, insurance coverage litigation and arbitration, and complex settlements, along with excellent communication skills and a tireless work ethic. As a senior insurance executive, she regularly collaborated on litigation management and settlement strategy with defense firms nationwide and built lasting relationships with major financial lines insurance brokers and policyholder counsel. She has been a frequent speaker at Professional Liability Underwriting Society and ARIAS U.S. events and insurance broker conferences.
Amanda was born and raised in upstate New York. She received a BA in International Relations from the University of Toledo, where she was a full-tuition National Merit scholarship recipient. She currently lives in West Hartford, Connecticut with her daughter and son.

Representative settlements include, among many others:

• a patent case between Blackberry and Facebook;
• a youth marketing dispute between a foreign tech company and
  the State of New Mexico;
• a patent case between a leading research university and a
  major pharmaceutical company;
• a federal class action antitrust case against one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies;
• a dispute between a software developer and a major tech firm;
• several disputes over rep-and-warranty insurance in corporate
  acquisitions;
• a federal class action case against a leading life insurance provider over cost-of-insurance adjustments to life insurance premiums;
• a federal class action securities case against a leading public utility company arising out its delayed construction of a major power plant;
• a federal class action securities case against another public utility arising out of losses incurred by energy traders hedging West Coast electricity pricing;
• a class action wage dispute in the fast-food industry;
• a bankruptcy-related dispute arising out of the Madoff fraud.

David regularly mediates federal class action securities law cases, shareholder derivative suits, as well as breach of fiduciary duty and corporate control cases. At any given time, he has a significant number of Delaware Chancery Court cases on his mediation docket.

In addition, David is retained to serve as a neutral monitor for complex, executory settlements — most recently, as the monitor under a settlement agreement between Standard Amusements and Westchester County involving the development and operation of Rye Playland.

Over his three decades at Wachtell, Lipton, David handled federal securities and derivative litigation, antitrust litigation, contests for corporate control, breach of fiduciary duty and corporate governance disputes, as well as contract, tort and high-stakes defamation cases. He also specialized in defending white-collar criminal investigations and often represented companies and individuals before the DOJ, SEC, Federal Reserve, OCC, NASD and state attorneys general.

While at Wachtell Lipton, David negotiated several key aspects of the landmark national tobacco settlement with the state attorneys general. Later, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, he counseled major financial institutions and individuals before an array of prosecutors and regulators and also before Congress and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). On several occasions, he was specially retained to conduct internal corporate investigations at the request of federal bank regulators, including the Federal Reserve and OCC. He also led international internal investigations into potential violations of the FCPA, US sanctions and anti-money laundering laws, the USA Patriot Act and US antitrust laws. David has litigated and arbitrated cases in more than two dozen states.

An honors graduate of Yale College, David received his law degree from the University of Chicago, where he won the annual Hinton Moot Court, Thomas J. Mulroy Prize for outstanding oral advocacy, and Joseph Henry Beale Prize for legal research and writing.

After law school, he clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Chief Judge Charles L. Brieant of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

An avid racing sailor since childhood, David and his family reside in Rowayton, Connecticut.

Prior to joining Phillips ADR, Miles was a nationally recognized trial, appellate, and settlement lawyer for more than 40 years.  He is the former Global Chair of Latham & Watkins LLP’s Litigation & Trial Department, featured in the legal press as a “legendary litigator,” “one of the nation’s top trial lawyers,” “known for his decency, integrity, and humanity.” He retired fully from Latham at the end of 2021, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York Law Journal, in which he was praised as a “legendary force in the securities and class action litigation fields,” combining “sheer brilliance” with “warmth and respect for others.” Miles has been recognized in numerous other legal publications, including the Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame; Chambers USA (“Miles brings a blend of intelligence, knowledge of the law, sophistication and humility which makes him a formidable force in securities litigation. He has a great perspective. What he has really perfected is how to be smart and know all of the different angles, but at the same time be low-key and calm.”); and Best Lawyers in America where he has been named New York City’s Lawyer of the Year in both Securities Litigation and Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement.  Miles’ skills in economics and mathematics have been helpful in analyzing complex damages and accounting and other issues, as well as in developing innovative settlement models and structures. In addition to his high-profile successes at trial and on appeal, he has handled dozens of mediations and arbitrations, and has negotiated ground-breaking settlements in a variety of contexts, including what was then the largest class action settlement in mass tort history.

Miles clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the United States Supreme Court and for Judge Carl McGowan on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He graduated first in his class from Yale College in 1973, summa cum laude, with Departmental Honors in Economics and Mathematics, and from Harvard Law School in 1976, magna cum laude, where he served as Developments Editor on the Harvard Law Review and edited Developments in the Law — Class Actions, which has been widely cited including by the United States Supreme Court. Miles has taught numerous courses and written articles on securities, class actions, professional liability, antitrust, and ethics. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the New York, California, and DC Bars. He practiced for several years in DC and more than 25 years in Los Angeles, before moving full-time to New York in 2011. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Legal Aid Society of New York and the Lawyers Alliance for New York, and was an inaugural recipient of the Robert M. Dell Prize for Extraordinary Pro Bono Service.

Miles lives in New York City with his wife Catherine Schreiber, who is an award-winning theater producer on Broadway and in London. They have two children, both of whom are doctors. Miles is an enthusiastic golfer, but not good enough to want to play golf full-time.

He has more than 35 years of state and federal trial experience in a variety of subject matter areas, including consumer fraud, False Claims Act and FCPA cases, internal investigations and corporate governance, international dispute resolution, securities class actions, product liability and toxic torts, trade secrets, employment, wage and hour class actions, insurance, antitrust and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Woodsome has significant appellate experience in both state and federal courts throughout the United States as well as business counseling experience for multinational corporations doing business in the United States. Mr. Woodsome has extensive mediation and arbitration experience both as a practitioner and as a neutral. He has participated in public service ADR programs, including the mediation panel for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Mr. Woodsome’s clients have included leading firms in the transportation, airline, banking and financial services, publishing, real estate, technology, aerospace, oil and gas, entertainment and consumer products industries. He served for more than twenty years as U.S. national litigation counsel for one of the world’s largest logistics companies, whom he represented in a number of arbitrations, as well as trial and appellate matters throughout the United States. He has also represented that firm in many parts of the world, including Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, in a wide range of complex litigation matters. Mr. Woodsome also served for many years as U.S. Litigation counsel for one of the world’s largest air carriers, based in the Middle East, in numerous litigation and regulatory matters.

Mr. Woodsome has conducted international investigations at the request of the Boards of Directors of both public and privately held companies. These matters have involved a variety of sensitive topics, including sexual harassment, criminal fraud and money laundering.

Mr. Woodsome is a frequent author and lecturer on complex business litigation, international dispute resolution, class action litigation and employment relations issues. For many years he served on the Southwestern Law School Board of Trustees. He has been on the boards of several non-profit organizations, most recently as CEO of Operation Walk, which provides free orthopedic surgical procedures to those in need around the world, most recently Cuba.

Mr. Woodsome graduated summa cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross, where he was Valedictorian. He attended Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude, was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and received the Sears Prize for academic performance. Following law school Mr. Woodsome was a law clerk for the Honorable James R. Browning on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then served as an officer in the United States Navy. Mr. Woodsome is admitted to practice in California, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

As a neutral, Michelle has previously primarily worked with former Judge Daniel Weinstein and the Weinstein Team. She has been involved in successfully mediating and managing multi-party and multi-faceted cases, with an aggregate settlement value of billions of dollars, annually. She brings her comprehensive experience in ADR process design and mediation of issues in complex matters to Phillips ADR Enterprises.

She has been involved in the mediation of over five hundred disputes, involving a myriad of diverse matters, including financial and accounting cases, securities and derivative matters, insurance coverage, regulatory matters, professional liability, ERISA, and trustee issues. She is known for her ability to ascertain and comprehend legal and factual issues quickly, and she is particularly adept in managing large, complex ADR cases proficiently and objectively. She has been recognized for her resolute determination and equanimity in assisting the parties in evaluating and finding reasoned and practical solutions. Her cases have ranged from personal contractual disputes to multi-faceted disputes involving major NYSE and NASDAQ corporations.

Michelle has outstanding skills in building relationships of trust, candor, respect and productive interactions with mediation participants. Prior to becoming a neutral, Michelle was as a trial attorney in private practice, litigating complex business matters including contract, insurance coverage, intellectual property, real estate, regulatory and white collar matters. She also served as a Presidential Appointee, Legislative Director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She was General Counsel to the National Japanese American Citizens League from 2002 to 2012 and has participated in significant proceedings, in state court matters and to the U.S. Supreme Court. She received her juris doctor from Golden Gate University School of Law and her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Irvine.

Clarence studied at Arkansas Pine Bluff University where he was awarded a football scholarship and played for three years before transferring to Arizona State where he studied criminal justice.