Virtual MSC Settlement Officer Recruitment and Training Webinar

Elaine Lu was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 2007. She currently presides over Department 26, one of the Independent Calendar courts at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. She was appointed as one of two Assistant Supervising Judges of the civil courts as of January 1, 2021. From 2016 through 2018, Judge Lu was assigned to a non-collections limited civil court, then to one of the personal injury hubs. Prior to her civil assignments, Judge Lu presided over a felony preliminary hearing calendar in the Pasadena courthouse and misdemeanor calendars at the Metropolitan and East Los Angeles Courthouses. Judge Lu has taught seminars for fellow bench officers on such topics as privileges, speedy trial rights, default judgments, judicial demeanor, and new legislation affecting civil courts. As Co-Chair of the L.A. Superior Court’s Power Lunch Committee, Judge Lu helps organize Power Lunches to bring high school students, lawyers, judges, and court staff members together at courthouses throughout the county to discuss career choices and the legal system. Judge Lu also presides over a Teen Court every month, where juvenile offenders are questioned, judged, and sentenced by a jury of Pasadena High School students.

Judge Michele E. Flurer is currently civil trial Judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court. After graduating from Rutgers University Law School in 1986, and in the 20 years before taking the bench, she was first an active civil litigator and later general counsel of an international company, based in Los Angeles. She first became certified as a mediator in 1989 and extensively volunteered as a settlement officer for the LASC. In 2004 she also became a settlement officer for the 2^nd appellate district. She is currently the chair of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s ADR Committee and also teaches judicial education programs on ADR.

Mark is a full-time mediator, who is pleased to have assisted in resolving hundreds of mediations. He has mediated all types of cases in the areas of employment, including FEHA, disability/medical leave, wage and hour, and = PAGA; personal injury, including auto accidents, premises liability, product liability, and civil rights; and class action, business and commercial, real estate and landlord tenant, education, medical and legal malpractice, appellate, finance and securities, appellate, and insurance coverage/bad faith. In addition to conducting private mediation in litigated cases, Mark also conducts Settlement Conferences for the L.A. Superior Court and mediations for the Central and Eastern District Federal Courts, the California Appellate Courts, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Chad Anderton advises and represents employers in a broad range of employment law matters, focusing primarily on wage and hour class action defense, as well as employment discrimination litigation. He has experience with claims brought under:

Fair Labor Standards Act
California Labor Code
Title VII
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
The California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act

Marta Alcumbrac is certified as a specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California. She has successfully represented lawyers and law firms in numerous legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty cases. She regularly identifies strategy for early resolution by quickly obtaining and accurately analyzing the relevant facts and developing a litigation plan for bringing the case to conclusion.

Marta brings the same creativity and determination to the practice of law that she used as a principal founder of the Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts, a public school started when Marta realized that parents in her community wanted another educational option for their children. Before joining Robie & Matthai, she practiced at Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O’Keefe & Nichols, where her practice focused on the defense of medical malpractice cases. When medical issues are relevant (as they often are in legal malpractice cases arising out of personal injury cases), her medical malpractice expertise is an invaluable asset.

Marta currently is the President of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel.

Genie Harrison is a top employment and women’s rights lawyer handling sexual harassment, equal pay, and other employment cases. With over thirty years of experience, she has obtained significant compensation for her clients and created systemic change to benefit thousands who will never know her name, but whose lives are better as a result of her work