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Bringing a Balanced Perspective, Perseverance & Wisdom
to Every Dispute


  1. Full time mediator since 1991, including Circuit Mediator for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

  2. Wide-ranging subject matter expertise and experience helping resolve thousands of disputes

  3. Exceptionally skillful with difficult people and highly emotional situations

  4. Emphasis in elder matters, including adult family decisions and elder abuse, trusts, estates and probate disputes

  5. Recognized by the Daily Journal as a “Top-Fifty Neutral” in California

  6. Affordable


For 22 years, Dana Curtis has devoted her career as a lawyer to helping parties resolve their conflicts efficiently, effectively and respectfully. She believes the quality of a mediated resolution, and of the mediation process, to be as important to the parties as the fact of resolution.