Hon. James Lambden
California Court of Appeal, (Ret.)
First District, Division Two
Mediator • Arbitrator • Discovery Referee • Appellate Consultant
Justice James Lambden brings to his ADR practice nearly four decades of experience as a trial lawyer, trial court judge and Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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ADR Profile
Justice Lambden authored over 1,000 opinions during his 17 years on the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco; and he joined in hundreds of other published opinions authored by his colleagues. More than 100 of his opinions resolved important civil issues; and several of those resulted in new law, either by subsequent legislation or as affirmed precedents.
Justice Lambden has been a national leader in developing strategies to improve access to justice. Since 1997 he has been first a founding member, then chairman and now an ex officio member of the California Commission on Access to Justice. He served on the Board of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness. For 9 years he chaired the Access and Fairness Advisory Committee of the California Judicial Council (the constitutional governing body of the California court system). And in 2013 he received the Benjamin Aranda Award in recognition of his life-long work to remove barriers to access to justice.
- Appellate
- Business-Commercial / Consumer Contracts
- Cannabis disputes
- Class Actions
- Consumer Credit
- Construction & Land Use
- Disability & Discrimination
- Employment
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Insurance Code §2071 Appraisal Arbitrations
- Medical Malpractice
- Personal Injury/Torts
- Probate, Estate & Trusts
- Product Liability
- Professional Malpractice
- Real Property
- Trade Secrets / Intellectual Property