John C. Carpenter, Esq.
Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Business Transactions; Corporate; Paymaster; Real Estate; and Estate Planning.
Admitted: 1976, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1977, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1983, Alaska; 1996, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California; 1998, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Law School: University of San Francisco, J.D., 1975
College: University of San Francisco, B.A., 1970
Member: State Bar of California (Member: Corporations Committee, Business Law Section, 2000-2004; Secretary, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Business Law Section, 2004-2007; Member, Business and Litigation Sections); Los Angeles County Bar Association (Mediator, Attorney-Client Mediation and Arbitration Services for the Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., 2010-; Member, Business and Litigation Sections); Los Angeles County Superior Court (Mediator, Pro-Bono and Paid Panel Mediation Program, 2004-).
Biography: Pi Sigma Alpha. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award for Corporate Law. Real Estate Broker, California, since 1987. Mediator, Los Angeles County Superior Court Mediation Program, since 2004 (American Arbitration Association - 40 hours Mediator Skills Training (2003); Center for Dispute Resolution, Advanced Business and Commercial Mediation Training (2007)); Contributing Editor: Handbook for Incorporating a Business in California by the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, 2006. California Opinion Reports by the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Sate Bar of California, 2002; Contributing Author: "Legal Articles for the Los Angeles Radiology Society," Quarterly Magazine, since 1997; Lecturer: "Drafting a Bullet Proof Covenant Not to Compete," Continuing Education of the Bar, Berkeley, California, January 2003. "Drafting and Negotiating an Alternative Dispute Resolution Clause," Continuing Education of the Bar, Huntington Beach, California, May 2004. "Alternative Dispute Resolution," North Dakota Bar Association, San Jose, Costa Rica, March 2006 and Cabo San Lucas, March, 2007; and "Mediation for Non-Litigators," The State Bar Business Law - Section ADR Committee, Anaheim, California, September 2007.
Reported Cases: Nicholson v. Fazeli (2003) 113 Cal. App. 4th 1091; 6 Cal. Rptr. 3d 881.
Born: Oakland, California, April 27, 1948
ISLN: 908524776