William A. Quinby, Esquire

Wulff Quinby & Sochynsky Dispute Resolution
1901 Harrison Street, Suite 1420
Oakland, CA 94612

Phone: 510-663-5220
Fax: 510-663-2226
Email: wquinby@aol.com
Other URL http://www.wqsadr.com

Mr. Quinby is a full-time mediator and arbitrator. He has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of domestic and international disputes involving complex commercial and interpersonal matters.
(A representative sampling of cases is below.)

Types of Cases Mediated
	Banking	Business
	Commercial	Construction
	Contracts	Discrimination
	Employment	Entertainment
	Environmental	Health Care
	Insurance	Intellectual Property
	International	Land Use
	Landlord - Tenant	Partnership Dissolutions
	Printing/Publishing	Probate
	Professional Fees	Professional Malpractice
	Public Policy	Real Estate
	Religious / Church	Securities
	Tax	Torts

MEMBER: 2005

Background Until July of 1996, Mr. Quinby was a shareholder and director of Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, a firm of over 200 attorneys, with offices in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. A member of the firms Business Litigation Practice Group, he also chaired the firms Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group, served as the chair of the firms recruiting and lateral hiring committees and as a member of the firms executive and compensation committees. His practice focused on the resolution of complex business and commercial matters, with an emphasis on contracts, business torts, wrongful termination and employment discrimination, construction, probate litigation, real estate, banking, legal professional liability, professional sports franchise, and class action litigation. His experience includes trials and alternative dispute resolution (as both neutral and advocate) of matters on behalf of individuals, small and large businesses, including public entities, national and local newspapers, national retailers, national manufacturers, banking institutions, national real estate brokers, rental car companies, a major national law firm, and others as both plaintiffs and defendants. While practicing law, Mr. Quinby enjoyed an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

He is a member of the American Arbitration Associations California Roster of Full-Time Neutrals, its Large Complex Case Program Panel, Employment Panel, Northern California Law Practice Dispute Resolution Panel and the Associations domestic and international mediation and commercial arbitration panels, the Center for Public Resources Panel of Distinguished Neutrals (San Francisco Panel), the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) mediation panel, the mediation panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, and the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Californias mediation, arbitration and early neutral evaluation programs. He is also an active member of the Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco Superior Court ADR panels. He has received extensive dispute resolution training from each of these entities as well as Harvard Law School.

Education/Training Hastings College of the Law, University of California, J.D., 1967.

Harvard University, B.A., 1963 (Harvard Scholar).

Practicing in California

Fees $600.00 per hour (2 party matters)

$675.00 per hour (3 parties)

$750.00 per hour (4 or more parties)