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

An arbitrator and mediator at JAMS, Tamara Lange is known for her skillful management of complex and high-conflict disputes and for her optimism, creativity, and tenacity. Ms. Lange regularly handles employment, healthcare, disability, tech/IP, civil rights, constitutional law, and complex commercial cases. Her careful preparation, trustworthiness, and ability to connect with the parties have won her accolades in these and many other highly-specialized practice areas, including product liability, maritime, franchise, insurance, environmental, labor, and Native American law. Ms. Lange previously served as ADR Director for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where she mediated hundreds of cases and trained and supervised more than 200 court-appointed neutrals. From 1995 until she became a full-time neutral in 2015, Ms. Lange was a litigator at Heller Ehrman in San Francisco, Caldwell Leslie in Los Angeles, the ACLU’s national LGBTQ & AIDS Project, Santa Clara County Counsel, the National Center for Youth Law, and her own solo practice. Ms. Lange graduated from Berkeley Law, Order of the Coif, and served as a law clerk for judges on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.