Jake has gotten the greatest satisfaction in his legal career from working his way through the business and interpersonal aspects of reaching solutions and bringing people together in a way that seems good for all.  

He has had the chance to help the owners or managers of businesses to resolve disputes of all kinds.  He has been able to resolve those difficulties to everyone’s satisfaction and has often kept them on as separate clients. Those matters have often involved emotional, personal and psychological elements as well as legal issues.  

He has represented clients in a number of mediations and arbitrations with success.

As a natural progression, he has become an arbitrator and a mediator for the American Arbitration Association and in his own practice. He has taken advanced courses in mediating the litigated case and in all aspects of mediation and arbitration.

He is a major proponent of alternative dispute resolution and now finds himself able to use his skills and experience as a “neutral” to resolve disputes through the effective, fair and relatively speedy and inexpensive process of alternative dispute resolution.