Practitioner's Approach to Effective Mediation

Nadine Lewis is a civil litigator with a broad-based private practice focused on real estate matters from foreclosure defense to landlord tenant disputes, including HOA litigation, lender scams, construction defect and real estate transactions from corporate forma=on to closing the transaction.

Michael McCarthy has been a member of Nemecek & Cole since January 2004. Mike was formerly a partner at Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez LLP, where he chaired the firm’s Professional Errors & Omissions Department. Prior to Manning Marder, Mike spent 18 years with Haight, Brown & Bonesteel where he served as managing partner in 1994 and 1995. Michael McCarthy is a Certified Specialist, Legal Malpractice Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

Jackie Adams-Ings is a Senior Partner with the accounting and litigation services firm of White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna & Hunt, LLP. Ms. Adams-Ings is a CPA and has had over twenty years of experience in a variety of accounting and litigation services including performance of business valuations, standard of living analyses, cash flow/income available for support, perquisite analyses, community property balance sheets, community/separate property, reimbursements, tracing assets, and financial analyses primarily related to marital dissolutions. Additionally, she has prepared complex dissolution accounting including analysis of Moore/Marsden, Van Camp – Pereira, Watts-Epstein, misappropriations, fraud, and tracing issues.

Mr. Girvan is a Certified Family Law Specialist at FMBK. His practice exclusively focuses on family law including divorces, contested child custody proceedings, drafting and negotiating prenuptial agreements and litigating domestic violence cases.

The majority of Mr. Girvan’s litigated matters settle out of court through mediation or settlement negotiations. When his clients have been unable to resolve their cases through settlement negotiations, he has successfully litigated property, support, and child custody issues. Mr. Girvan also has extensive trial experience in a number of interstate and international child custody and child support matters. Mr. Girvan’s clients have prevailed in various domestic violence cases; both victims and those alleged to have committed acts of domestic violence.