Bryant Mediation of San Jose

Sample Cases as Mediator

• Mediated cases include commercial landlord-tenant (R&D complex) dispute involving reciprocal claims of $8 million, resolved with extension of long-term lease at reduced rent;
  
  
• multi-party insurance claims relating to defective paint/finish on several hundred doors in federal public housing project, resolved after exchange of information by expert witnesses;
  
  
• shopping center owners' dispute relating to equity interest and consequent disagreement regarding profit distribution;
  
  
• several hundred multi-party mediations involving non-disclosure issues in buy-sell agreements relating to residential property;
  
  
• wrongful death claim by family of employee shot to death at work by co-employee/lover;
  
  
• sexual harassment and age discrimination claims by waitresses against restaurant owner and shopping center management and owners;
  
  
• sexual harassment and wrongful (constructive) discharge by legal secretary alleging quid pro quo conduct by lawyer/employer;
  
  
• wrongful failure-to-promote claim by naturalized citizen alleging discrimination;
  
  
• reciprocal claims by property owners and contractors relating to non-payment and defective work;
  
  
• discrimination claim for failure to rent to single mother, a university professor, with a young child;
  
  
• personal injury claim against public transportation agency for severe damages suffered by elderly woman when bus driver refused to wait for her to sit down;
  
  
• claims relating to toxic waste remediation between public agency and property owners.