Yaroslav "Yarko" Sochynsky, Esquire

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

Phone: 510-663-5222
Fax: 510-663-5226
Email: yarko@aol.com
Other URL http://www.wqsadr.com
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Mr. Sochynsky has been active as a mediator and arbitrator since 1984, and has worked full-time in that capacity since 2000. He has acted as mediator or arbitrator in over a thousand business, technology, construction, health care, and employment disputes, involving both domestic and international parties and related insurance issues. A list of representative matters appears below. His experience includes appointment as arbitrator chair in cases before the ICC-ICA in Paris and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution in New York. He was listed as one of seven Bay Area most popular arbitrators by The Recorder, June 4, 2002.


Types of Cases Mediated
- Aerospace - Americans w/Disabilities Act
- Banking - Business
- Civil (general) - Commercial
- Construction - Contracts
- Discrimination - Education
- Employment - Entertainment
- Environmental - General Mediation
- Harassment - Health Care
- Insurance - Intellectual Property
- International - Land Use
- Landlord - Tenant - Marine/Admiralty
- Medical - Municipal
- Organizational - Partnership Dissolutions
- Personal Injury - Printing/Publishing
- Probate - Product Liability
- Professional Fees - Professional Malpractice
- Public Policy - Real Estate
- Securities - Tax
- Torts - Workplace

MEMBER: 2005


Background
During 1973 to 2000, Mr. Sochynsky was a litigation partner in the San Francisco law firm of Landels, Ripley & Diamond, trying and managing business, real estate, technology, construction and employment litigation and arbitration matters. Before joining Landels, he was law clerk to the Honorable William T. Sweigert, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of California, after working as an associate with White & Case in New York during 1970-71 before moving to California.



Education/Training
Mr. Sochynsky received his B.A. degree in 1967 from Colgate University, and his J.D. from Georgetown Law Center in 1970, where he was Case and Notes Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of the Georgetown Law Journal. He was admitted to practice law in New York in 1971 and in California in 1972.


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