Tamara Lange
Tamara Lange
Biographical Info Tamara Lange, former ADR director for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, has mediated and evaluated hundreds of cases across a wide range of subject matter areas. Her integrity, discernment and intellectual engagement make her a go-to neutral for complex legal issues and emotionally fraught dynamics. Counsel say Ms. Lange is “calm, smart, effective, and respectful, and appropriately exercise[s] control.” They appreciate her “patience, empathy, warmth, candor, and professionalism,” and praise her as “an excellent mediator, one of the best.” She is known for her thorough preparation and skillful listening. As an advocate, Ms. Lange handled commercial, patent, copyright, insurance coverage, environmental, entertainment and class-action cases at a global law firm in San Francisco and a litigation boutique in Los Angeles. She went on to lead and collaborate in cutting-edge constitutional, civil rights, employment, disability, detention conditions and education-related litigation for the national ACLU LGBTQ & HIV Project and the National Center for Youth Law. As a lead deputy of the Office of the County Counsel of Santa Clara County and as a solo practitioner, she focused on health care litigation, policy and regulatory compliance, and collaborated on cases and advocacy involving employment, business, local government, consumer protection and constitutional law. Ms. Lange graduated with honors from Cornell University and Berkeley Law, and clerked for judges in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Biography
Tamara Lange, FCIArb, (JAMS) has a full-spectrum arbitration and mediation practice focused on commercial, cross-border and complex disputes. Ms. Lange has worked exclusively as a neutral since 2015 and values thorough preparation, deep listening, procedural fairness, and efficiency. She has been appointed sole arbitrator or chair in commercial, cryptocurrency, healthcare payor-provider, employment/wage & hour/executive compensation, financial industry, securities, cannabis, elder abuse/nursing care, real estate, and consumer disputes. Counsel describe her as “calm, smart, effective, and respectful,” and say she “appropriately exercise[s] control.” Before joining JAMS, Ms. Lange was ADR Director for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, where she mediated and evaluated hundreds of cases and supervised a sophisticated panel of 250 court-appointed neutrals. As an advocate, Ms. Lange litigated commercial, insurance coverage, IP, environmental, entertainment and class-action cases at a global law firm and a litigation boutique, brought constitutional cases for non-profit legal organizations, and handled healthcare, employment, false advertising, and constitutional cases as a local government attorney.