Norman Brand

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NormanBrand
150 Lombard Street, Suite 3
San Francisco, CA 94111

Phone: 415-982-7172
Fax: 415-982-8021
Email: nb@normbrand.com
Other URL http://www.normbrand.com

Since 1983, Mr. Brand has been engaged full time in dispute resolution. A former negotiator and law professor, he has a varied national practice, ranging from arbitrating high profile individual disputes such as hockey player Petr Nedveds eligibility to play in the IHL, to mediating high stakes public disputes such as the nations first pay for performance contract in the Denver City School District.

Mr. Brand has arbitrated and mediated cases involving complex issues of law and large dollar amounts. His largest arbitration award resulted in payments of approximately $40 million.

He has served as sole arbitrator in a $50 million biotech case, and in many multi-million dollar pension cases. He mediated the model annual maintenance agreement between Sacramento Delta Reclamation Districts and the California Department of Fish and Game and a dispute over remediation of 9 Superfund sites involving 19 parties. He mediates discrimination claims for the EEOC and has mediated and arbitrated executive compensation, discrimination, and wrongful termination disputes involving Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Brand has engaged in med-arb under statutory procedures involving state and federal entities, as well as in trust fund and trade secret cases. His primary practice has been in labor and employment law, but he has also served on specialized panels requiring scientific literacy in biochemistry, medicine, and psychiatry, as well as an understanding of research and laboratory procedures.

Types of Cases Mediated
	Business	Civil (general)
	Contracts	Discrimination
	Employment	Environmental
	General Mediation	Harassment
	Health Care	Labor Management
	Medical	Organizational

MEMBER: 2005

Background Mr. Brand is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, past President of the California Dispute Resolution Council, a panelist for ADR Services, Inc., and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is on the American Arbitration Associations Employment, ERISA/MPPAA, Commercial, Large Complex Case, and other panels. Among his recent publications are: How ADR Works (Washington: BNA, 2002), Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration, (Washington: BNA, 1998), and When Experts Testify: Exploiting the Advantages of Arbitration, 4 ADR Currents 1 (Fall 1999). He is a contributor to ADR and Settlement, in California Practice Guide Employment Law (Rutter Group:2001) and Designing Integrated Conflict Management Systems, Cornell Studies in Conflict and Dispute Resolution, 2001. Mr. Brand has a Ph.D. and has taught arbitration, negotiation, and mediation. He has taught neutrals for the American Arbitration Association, judges at the National Judicial College, and students as a Professor at Albany Law School and as an Adjunct Professor at Hastings College of the Law.

Education/Training J.D. University of California, Davis, June 1975

Ph.D. Arizona State University, January, 1971, English

M.A. Arizona State University, January 1969, English

B.A. Harpur College, State University of New York, Binghamton, June 1966 (Biology/English)

Practicing in California

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