Tim Corcoran is a professional full-time Conflict Management specialist.  He has been engaged in the ADR arena for over 20 years and during that span has handled well in excess of 5,000 mediation or arbitration hearings.  He is the founder of RAMS.

Tim Corcoran was raised in the Southern California communities of West Covina and Claremont.  He graduated from Damien High School, attended the Virginia Military Institute and graduated from the University of Southern California.  While at USC he served as a Congressional intern for the late Jerry L. Pettis.  Tim then went to San Diego to attend the Thomas Jefferson University College of Law where he served on the Law School's Law Review entitled the Criminal Justice Journal.  While in Law School Tim clerked for the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego.  After graduation and admission to the California State Bar, Tim began his law career working for the late Judge Tony Piazza in Victorville and Redlands.  In 1981, Tim joined the law firm of Thompson & Colegate in Riverside where he specialized in insurance defense litigation as well as police misconduct and medical malpractice litigation.  In 1989, he left the firm and opened his own practice in San Bernardino.  Tim was also an instructor at the California Southern School of Law in Riverside where he taught the art of Trial Practice for approximately 5 years.  For the next several years Tim enjoyed a solo practice where he concentrated in the areas of personal injury litigation, family law, juvenile law, criminal law and general civil law.                                                    

Prior to 1990 Mr. Corcoran began hearing judicial arbitrations on a regular basis.  At the urging of many colleagues and members of the judiciary, Tim commenced a full time ADR practice.  Since moving from San Bernardino to Redlands, Tim has focused exclusively on meditations and arbitrations.  Tim has continued his professional education by attending the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine School of Law and Harvard Law Schools Program on Negotiation.                                                                         

Tim is Fellow with American College of Civil Trial Mediators and a Distinguished Fellow with the International Academy of Mediators. He is a  Diplomat with the California Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and a member of the Southern California Mediation Association. From time to time during the course of Mr. Corcoran's professional career he has been a member of many associations, including the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Consumer Attorneys of California, Southern California Defense Counsel, as well as the Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino County Bar Associations. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Riverside County Bar Association and  as the President of the Riverside County Barristers (1985).  Tim has also been acknowledged as a "Super Lawyer" as one of the top 5% of all lawyers in Southern California in the ADR arena.  Tim is the only ADR attorney specialist with such a designation in all of the Inland Empire.  

Tim's wife is the former Linda Olson of West Covina and they have two boys, Bradley Chamberlain and Alexander Marshall.  His daughter Courtney is in High school and son Shawn is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, an Army Ranger and a former platoon leader. Shawn graduated from the Georgetown University Medical School in 2007 and is now a physician in the U.S. Army.  Shawn's wife, Lisa Sestile, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the American University School of Law, is also an officer in the United States Army and is assigned to the Judge Advocate General's office and is presently serving in Iraq.

The Corcoran family is active and athletic.  They enjoy skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, participate in endurance events, including Ironman-related events.  Tim and Linda enjoy participating in events together, including climbing to the summit of Mt. Whitney or doing the Marine Corps and New York City marathons on back-to-back consecutive weekends.  They  both also completed the Ironman Triatholon World Championship in Kona, Hawaii in October of 2006.

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