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.

Greg Girvan is a Certified Family Law Specialist at FMBK, where he represents clients throughout California in complex and consequential family law matters. His practice spans high-asset divorce, contested custody, domestic violence litigation, and the negotiation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements involving substantial estates and cross-border considerations.

Mr. Girvan has litigated hundreds of trials, evidentiary hearings, and Requests for Orders, and routinely advises on the division of closely held businesses and support matters involving layered income structures. His custody work includes interstate and international disputes, often involving jurisdictional and enforcement challenges.

In addition to his litigation practice, Mr. Girvan is frequently retained to draft and negotiate marital agreements tailored to complex financial circumstances, including private equity interests, real estate holdings, and international assets.