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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Dec. 6, 2014

Building from Scratch

Michael J. Bayard started his own arbitration and mediation business in 2000. Since then, he's taken on construction disputes in California and Nevada, and because of his deep ties to the field, he's never had to advertise.


By Matt Hamilton


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - After more than a decade as partner and national chair of construction litigation at two of the nation's biggest firms - Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP - Michael Bayard wanted out.


It wasn't the long hours; he still clocks more than 200 hours in a month. Nor was it the types of cases; his niche as a neutral is the same as when he practice...

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