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Goodman Law PLLC - Arbitrator, Mediator, Attorney

Arbitrator, Attorney, Mediator, Judge Pro Tem

Managing Member, Goodman Law PLLC, 2012 - Present; Judge Pro Tem, Maricopa County Superior and Justice Courts, 2018 – 2002; General Counsel and Compliance Officer, First Credit Union, 2019-2020; Attorney, Jones & Keller P.C., 2011 - 2012; Attorney, Gust Rosenfeld P.L.C, 2008 - 2011; Attorney, Alston & Bird LLP, 2007 - 2008; Vice President/RM Corporate Trust & Escrow Services, Wells Fargo, 2006 - 2007; Personal Banker, Bank of America, 2000 - 2004.

Neutral mediator and arbitrator of complex disputes. Former Compliance Officer and General Counsel of large 90 year-old financial institution. Formerly transaction, regulatory, and trial attorney whose private practice primarily focused on complex issues related to financial institutions and other creditors. Significant mediation, arbitration, and litigation experience representing clients in complex bankruptcy, restructuring, and creditors’ rights issues. A significant focus of private practice was advising financial institutions regarding liquidation and servicing of government guaranteed loans. Advised financial institutions on various regulatory matters including regulatory applications and examinations, negotiation of regulatory agreements, and litigation of disputes involving financial institution regulations. Varied transaction experience includes loan origination and workout involving complex lending relationships, and have regularly counseled servicers of securitized commercial loan portfolios in connection with commercial loan origination, assumptions, and defeasances, among others. Substantial experience advising clients and/or arbitrating matters involving manufacturing defect claims, state lemon law claims, Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act claims, and claims involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA), among others. Informed by practical banking experience, having worked as Compliance Officer/General Counsel of financial institution, and in the Consumer and Small Business Divisions of Bank of America and the Corporate Trust Division of Wells Fargo. Additionally, a graduate and former executive student advisor of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington—the Nation’s premier national graduate school of banking. This practical perspective is key to the ability to counsel and interact credibly with institutional clients on sophisticated matters. Former Judge Pro Tem in the Maricopa County Superior and Justice Courts. Have decided hundreds of written motions and presided over hundreds of hearings, bench and jury trials, and evidentiary hearings—in a very wide variety of criminal and civil matters.

Served as a mediator or settlement judge in dozens of mediations ranging from relatively simple and low-dollar collection matters, complex high-dollar bankruptcy issues, multi-million-dollar employment disputes, etc.

Representative disputes/issues include, but are not limited to, those involving: federal agency EEOC mediations; insurance subrogation and coverage; manufacturing defects; landlords and tenants; breach of contract (vehicle finance) breach of contract (franchise agreement & asset purchase agreement); homeowner associations and planned communities; credit cards; breach of contract (medical procedure finance); debt collection; employment (sexual harassment); negligence (personal injury) nursing home final expenses; warranty coverage; bankruptcy stay relief violations: bankruptcy non-discharge under 11 U.S.C. 523; business dissolution; state tax liability; telephone consumer protection act (TCPA); employment (wrongful termination); contract (loan broker); fraud; Regulation E; Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA); contract (business purchase and sale); and much more.

Mediation is a party-owned and self-determinative process. To that end, a mediator should provide a facilitative, evaluative, or even transformative mediation experience depending on the specific needs and desires of the parties to a dispute. A mediator should, to the extent possible, focus heavily on pre-mediation planning and preparation to ensure time spent in mediation is as effective as possible.

Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law (LL.M. International Commercial Arbitration - 2022); Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington (Banking Management Certificate - 2012); Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School (JD, with Distinction, Litigation Concentration -2006); Northern Arizona University (BA, Liberal Studies emphasis in Free Enterprise - 2006).

Admitted to the Bar: Arizona (2007).

State Bar of Arizona (executive committee member, alternative dispute resolution section); State Bar of Arizona (member, bankruptcy law section); Arizona Bankruptcy American Inn of Court (barrister); Arizona Bankers’ Association (associate member); National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders–NAGGL (member); Maricopa County Bar Foundation (former trustee); Arizona Commercial Mortgage Lenders Association (past associate member); Arizona Private Lenders Association (past associate member); Maricopa County Bar Association (past member, bankruptcy section; former director, bankruptcy section); Hispanic National Bar Association (past member); Los Abogados Hispanic Bar Association (past member); Turnaround Management Association (past member; former director, Arizona Chapter); American Bar Association (past member); Arizona Town Hall (member; past recorder, past report chair); Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington (past executive student advisor).

Willing to serve anywhere in the world. Will not charge for travel time or cost for matters handled in Phoenix, Arizona, Mexico City, Mexico, St. George, Utah, or Puerto Rico. Willing to waive charge for travel time or cost, on a case-by-case basis upon request, for consumer arbitrations.

Hourly Rate: $500.00 Daily Rate: Not provided Study Rate: $500.00/hr Cancellation: $2,500.00/Day Cancellation Period: 2 Days Comment: Cancellation Rate not charged if time can be filled.

English; Spanish

United States of America

Phoenix, Arizona