Early Dispute Resolution

Sid Kanazawa is a mediator, arbitrator, trial lawyer, and bridge builder bringing people together even when it seems impossible. For over 40 years, he represented plaintiffs and defendants, locally, nationally, and internationally, in jury and non-jury trials, arbitrations, administrative proceedings, crises, mediations, and negotiations. Sid builds bridges to take parties from anger and distrust to curiosity and hope. In the largest oil spill in the Port of Los Angeles, Sid quelled an angry mob and settled 600 claims within two weeks of the spill and all 2,000+ within three months. For plaintiffs and defendants, he has resolved multi-million matters over lunch and wrote about it in a 2004 article entitled, “Apologies and Lunch,” which has been republished multiple times. Recently, at the Edelman Children’s Court, he has engaged parents negotiating their parenting time and has converted their long-standing hate, anger, and distrust into solid agreements in nearly 100% of the mediations he has handled.

Bruce Clemens is a prominent figure in family law, now in his 49^th year of private practice as a family law lawyer, including 46 years representing clients in family law matters, teaching, writing, and finally combining all of this experience in his current work as a neutral/mediator. He started his family law career in 1974 at Loeb and Loeb and soon co-founded the esteemed Beverly Hills family law firm of Jaffe and Clemens in 1977, where he served the next 42 years as the managing partner, leaving an indelible mark on the firm’s success. Today, Bruce Clemens dedicates his expertise exclusively through ARC (Alternative Resolution Centers), where he excels as a Family Law Settlement Specialist and Early-Stage Dialogue Facilitator.