Name: Jeff Kichaven

Affiliation: Jeff Kichaven, a professional corporation, ADR Services, Judicate West, Alternative Resolution Center

Rate: $4,500 to $6000 per day

Location: Los Angeles

Areas: Mediation of insurance coverage, entertainment, intellectual property and general business disputes

Cases: Kichaven is handling an ongoing dispute between a power company and a contractor regarding work to refurbish a nuclear reactor. In October, he helped settle a class action in the mid-six-figure range for unpaid meal and break times brought against a restaurant chaing by potentially hundreds of current and former employees. In June, he successfully mediated a low seven-figure settlement of a cancer-related drug patents case between a physician researcher an a major medical research facility. In March, he also helped reach a confidential settlement of a cliam brought by a professional baseball player against his agent for allegedly porr advice that resulted in a potentially career-ending injury to the player's arm.

Background: Litigator, Alschuler, Grossman & Pines

Quote: "He prods when it's appropriate, cajoles and otherwise out thinks you." William G. Baumgaertner; Brown & Bonesteel

Originally published in the "TOP 50 NEUTRALS" section of the Daily Journal Extra, December 6, 2004.