Legal System:
Civil Law, International Law
Practice Areas:
Arbitration, Commercial Law, Employment, Finance - Banking, Information - Communication Technologies, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Investment - Concession agreements, Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation, Maritime Law, Mediation, Real Estate
Jurisdiction:
United States
Publications
See https://www.jamsadr.com/westerfield/#publications
Teaching
Presenter, Mediation, University of Southern California Gould School of Law School, 2018; Co-Chair, Global Pound Conference, International Mediation Institute (Northern California), 20162017; Presenter; USA/Italy Dialogue on Judicial Reform: Alternative Dispute Resolution; Rome, Italy; 2016; Presenter, USC/JAMS Arbitration Institute Symposium: Advanced Arbitration Academy, Los Angeles, 2016; Presenter; Admont International Summer School on Business Mediation; Admont, Austria; 2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016; Presenter; Bangalore Chamber of Commerce, Conclave on Alternative Dispute Resolution; Bangalore, India; 2016; Recognized as an ADR Champion, National Law Journal, 2016, 2018; Presenter; ABA Asia Pacific International Mediation Summit; New Delhi, India; 2015; Presenter; Private Commercial Mediation Conclave; Bangalore, India; 2015; Trainer, ADR for Supreme Court of India (Delhi), High Court of Bangalore, 2013; Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Education
M.A., Stanford University, 2008; J.D., University of Kentucky, 1975 (Law Journal, National Moot Court Team); B.A., University of Kentucky, with distinction, 1972
Other Information
member College of Commercial Arbitrators, International Mediation Institute, The Mediation Society, National Association of Women Judges, Association of Business Trial Lawyers
"Hon. Rebecca Westerfield (Ret.) has settled and arbitrated thousands of domestic cases and cross-border disputes throughout the United States. A full-time JAMS panelist since 1992, Judge Westerfield is widely perceived as a tenacious mediator. She is included on the ""National Mediators"" List, Chambers USA (2019), where she is noted as being at the ""cutting edge of the field"" by peers. Her extensive experience includes complex, multi-party, multi-issue cases with underlying insurance coverage disputes. She is particularly adept at dealing with matters that involve cross-cultural dynamics and high emotional content, such as business dissolutions, catastrophic personal injury litigation and family estate matters. Parties have included Fortune 500 companies and other publicly owned corporations, Silicon Valley entities and multinational corporations. In arbitrations, Judge Westerfield is known for managing the process efficiently and fairly. Her managerial arbitration style provides parties with an opportunity to be fully heard while moving the process to conclusion. To read her full biography and see representative matters, please visit www.jamsadr.com/westerfield"
