John Leo Wagner United States Magistrate Judge (Ret.)

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John Leo Wagner
United States Magistrate Judge (Ret.)
Judicate West Alternative Dispute Resolution
1851 E. First Street, Ste. 1450
Santa Ana, CA 92705

Phone: 1-800-488-8805
Fax: 714-834-1344
Email: jwagner@wagneradr.com
Other URL http://www.wagneradr.com

Judge Wagner has handled thousands of mediations and arbitrations over the last 20 years. These include business, intellectual property, class action, environmental, toxic and mass tort, and construction defect cases. He also handles professional malpractice cases, catastrophic injury cases, employment cases, insurance coverage disputes and bad faith claims.

Types of Cases Mediated
	Business	Commercial
	Construction	Employment
	Environmental	Insurance
	Intellectual Property	Personal Injury
	Professional Malpractice	Securities

MEMBER: 2000

Background John Leo Wagner is a former United States Magistrate Judge, serving from 1985 through 1997 in the Northern District of Oklahoma. He has been listed as a Southern California Super Lawyer in the field of ADR in 2007 and 2008, and has been included in the the 2007 and 2008 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the Speciality of Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 1997 he left the bench to head the ADR practice group at Irell & Manella LLP, a 225 attorney Los Angeles-based law firm. There, he founded and served as the Director of the Irell & Manella ADR Center and practiced as an ADR neutral. In 2005, he left Irell & Manella and became an independent, full-time ADR neutral working exclusively through Judicate West Alternative Dispute Resolution, based out of Orange County, California. While on the bench, he was appointed by then Chief Justice Renquist to the Court Administration and Case Management Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference and served on its ADR Task Force. He has extensive trial experience, both on and off the bench. He currently serves on the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution's Panel of Distinguished Neutrals. He was a member of the CPR - Georgetown Commission on Ethics and Standards of Practice in ADR. He is a Fellow of both the ACCTM and the International Academy of Mediators.

Education/Training Judge Wagner received his JD from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1979. He received Advanced Mediation Training while on the federal bench through the Federal Judicial Center and Endispute, Inc. He attended the Harvard University Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers. He has since served as an ADR instructor and trainer for many distinguished organizations, including the International Academy of Mediators, the Federal Judicial Center, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Pepperdine University's Strauss Institute of Dispute Resolution and the American Bar Association.

Fees Judge Wagner mediates nationwide. He does not charge for non-working travel time. A fee schedule is available upon request.

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