Warren C. Conklin
Judge of the Superior Court (Ret.)
Biography
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
Member, American Arbitration Association National Panel of Commercial
Arbitrators and Southern California Large Complex Case Panel--
2002 to present
Special Master - Marin Superior Court - 1991 to 2001
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, Fifth Judicial District, 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
Founding Member - Center for Judicial Education
and Research (CJER) 1973 - 1976
Member, Continuing
Judicial Studies Program Planning Committee 1979 - 1981
Member, Judicial
College Committee 1981
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 350
different attorneys in resolving disputes.
Primary foci
have 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 workers compensation
offsets (approximately 1/4 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, until January of 2003, 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.
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