FINN MEDIATION

Mr. Finn has represented both plaintiffs and defendants over the course of his career. For the last 15 years, he was a partner at Cholakian & Associates in South San Francisco, California. He has experience handling cases involving the following subject matters:

• Catastrophic personal injury

• Employment discrimination and harassment

• Governmental entity liability

• Premises liability

• Product liability

• Insurance subrogation

• ADA and Unruh Act claims

• Commercial trucking

• Commercial landlord-tenant disputes

• Residential landlord-tenant disputes

• Construction defect

• Proposition 65 / Clean Water Act matters

• Federal and state civil rights actions

• Insurance coverage and bad faith

• Actions brought under California Insurance Code section 1871.7

Over his thirty-year career, Mr. Finn has developed and executed strategic resolution plans for thousands of pre-litigation disputes and litigated matters. He has served in multiple roles in the mediation process, including decision-maker, mediator, counsel of record, party representative, and representative for nonprofit organizations with final settlement authority. Mr. Finn finds the facilitation of negotiated resolutions at the pre-litigation stage especially rewarding.