Contact American Arbitration Association
600 B Street
Suite 1450
San Diego, CA 92101
Mediation Panel
Richard W. Page, Esq.
telephone: 619 239 3051
facsimile: 619 239 3807
Current EmployerThe Page Firm, APC - Shareholder
Title
Profession Attorney, Arbitrator, Mediator
Work History Shareholder, The Page Firm, APC, 1998-present; Partner, Page & Busch, LLP,
1996-98; Shareholder, Page, Polin & Busch, APC, 1983-96; Partner/Associate,
Sullivan & Jones, 1976-83.
Experience Primarily engaged in a business litigation practice focusing on trial and appellate
courts and on arbitration and mediation. Experience in business negotiations and
litigation supervision in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Experience in disputes
regarding corporations, partnerships, construction, employment, intellectual
property, real estate, contracts and other commercial issues.
Representative Mediated several hundred disputes involving development of computer products,
Cases Handled as development contract and trade secret protection of computer circuit boards,
Mediator patent licensing agreement and product development, environmental and toxic
issues and employment terminations. Also handled corporate and partnership
restructuring; franchises, distribution agreements and other contracts; securities,
real property and other sales commissions; and securities investments.
Representative Arbitrated cases including value of barter agreement in sale of magazine,
Cases Handled as construction defects, real property development in Mexico, broker's handling of
Arbitrator investment portfolio, existence and dissolution of high technology enterprise,
agricultural supply contracts, termination of officers, valuation of real property,
and insurance coverage.
Alternative Dispute Member, NAFTA Article 2022 Committee; panelist, World Intellectual Property
Resolution Organization (WIPO); member, Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Center of
Experience the Americas (CAMCA); member of the following AAA panels: International;
Large Complex Case Panel; Commercial Panel since 1982; and Mediation Panel
since 1985. Member, Asia/Pacific Center Panel since 1992. Serves as an
arbitrator, mediator and judge pro tem for the San Diego Superior Court. Has
arbitrated and mediated several hundred disputes involving international trade,
intellectual property, corporate and partnership restructure and dissolution, breach
of contract, distributor terminations, securities, bankruptcy and other commercial
issues. Experience in conducting multi-party and multi-session mediations.
Faculty, AAA International Arbitration Symposium, 2004, 2005.
Alternative Dispute ACE005 - Chairing an Arbitration Panel: Managing Procedures, Process &
Resolution Training Dynamics, Dublin, 5/05; Attended AAA Annual Board Meeting and satisfied
Arbitrator Update and 2004 ACE requirements, New York, 5/04; Faculty, AAA
International Arbitration Symposium, Miami, 1/04; AAA Arbitrator Update 2001;
attended AAA Mediator Conference, New Orleans, 3/01; AAA Commercial
Arbitrator II Training, San Diego, 1/01; faculty, International Arbitrator Training,
3/00; AAA International Arbitrator Train-the-Trainers course, New York, 9/99;
AAA Commercial Arbitrator Training, San Diego, 2/99; AAA Advanced
Arbitrator Training, San Diego, 5/93; AAA Mediation Training, San Diego, 6/91;
various other ADR training.
Professional Admitted to the Bar: California, 1976; California Bankruptcy Courts; U.S.
Licenses District Court, District of California, 1976; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit,
1979.
Professional American Bar Association (Litigation Section; International Section; ADR
Associations Section); California State Bar Association (Litigation Section; International
Section); American Arbitration Association (Board of Directors, Executive
Committee).
Education Stanford University (BA, with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa-1970); University of
California at Davis (JD, Law Review-1976).
Awards and Honors Martindale-Hubbell, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, AV-Rating; recipient
of Whitney North Seymour Award for Outstanding Services to Arbitration, 1988.
Publications and "International Arbitration," ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS TRIAL LAWYERS
Speaking REPORT, vol. V, no. 2, February 1998; "Appropriate Dispute Resolution in
Engagements North America," NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL, May 4, 1995; "Appropriate
Dispute Resolution ('ADR') in North America," American Bar Association,
Section on International Law and Practice, International Commercial Arbitration
Committee, NEWSLETTER, vol. 2, Spring 1995; "ADR - Big Ticket Business
Arbitration," CALIFORNIA LITIGATION NEWS, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring 1993;
faculty, International Arbitration Training for American Chamber of Commerce
(AmCham) Chile, Santiago de Chile, and Quito, Ecuador, and the Catholic
University of Temuco (UCTem), Temuco, Chile (English and Spanish); faculty,
International Arbitration Training of Asia/Pacific Center (Honolulu; Miami;
Vancouver, British Columbia; Harvard University; San Francisco; Hong Kong;
San Diego/Tijuana; El Paso/Juarez {in English and Spanish}); lecturer, Biennial
Conference of the International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions
(IFCAI), Geneva, Switzerland; Lecturer, Instituto Mexicano de la Mediacion and
Barra Mexicana, Mexico City; lecturer, La Bolsa de Comercio, Center for
Arbitration, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish); Lecturer, Monterey Tech ADR
Symposium, Nuevo Leon, Mexico (in Spanish); lecturer, Universidad Autonoma
de Baja California, Tijuana (in Spanish); lecturer, Union Internacionale des
Avocats, San Francisco; lecturer, USIS Training Program in Juicios Orales,
Asuncion, Paraguay (in Spanish).
References J. Anthony Sinclitico, III, (619) 544-8003; Claus Von Wobeser, (525) 258-1000;
Michael Owen, (213) 683-6214.
Fees $295.00 hourly rate Mediation Compensation. Including travel and study time.
$1,500.00 cancellation fee if within ten days of hearing.