Practice Areas:
Civil Trial Attorney
- Professional Liability
- Personal Injury
- Real Estate
- Employment
- Business
Alternative Dispute Resolution Provider
- Mediator
- Arbitrator
- Private Judge Pro Tem
- Neutral Evaluator

Education:
J.D., Univ. of Santa Clara
B.A., UC Santa Barbara

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Summary Statement:
Mr. Blackman maintains and active civil litigation trial practice, and also acts frequently as a mediator and arbitrator for all manner of civil disputes. As a trial attorney he has handled hundreds of professional liability cases for attorneys, accountants, brokers, health care professionals, engineers and other professionals. He has also acted as an expert witness on attorney liability issues over a dozen times. As an ADR provider, in addition to acting as a mediator or arbitrator in over 400 cases, Mr. Blackman has also acted as a neutral evaluator and privately retained judge pro tem. 

Reported Cases:
Karno v. Biddle (1995) 36 Cal.App.4th 622 (legal malpractice statute of limitations)
Alternative Systems, Inc. v. Carey(1998) (validity of private binding arbitration   agreements between attorney and client)
Simmons v. Ghaderi (2008) 44 Cal. 4'th 570 (mediation confidentiality)

Representative Cases:
Wang v. Graham & James
(legal malpractice/intellectual property)
Rollins Venture v. Cheung (prescriptive easement)
Sanmina-SCI Corporation v. Rehon & Roberts, APC (attorney-client fee dispute)

Articles:
Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Future of Lawyering, 23 Lincoln L. Rev. 1 (1995)
Neutral Evaluation-An ADR Technique Whose Time Has Come, "ADR Report (published by Pike & Fischer, Inc., a subsidiary of The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Bethesda, MD), Vol. 1, No. 6, July 23, 1997
"Clauses in Attorney-Client Retainer Agreements Requiring Arbitration of Legal Malpractice Claims, "Lawyers' Mutual Insurance Company Bulletin (A Report on Legal Malpractice Prevention Issues). Vol.13, No. 1, April, 1998
Things to Consider Before Including an Arbitration Clause in Your Contract

Associations:
State Bar of California
San Mateo County Bar Association
- President 2003
- Board of Directors 1996-2004    
- Chair, ADR Section 1992-1996; 1998-2002
Member, Superior Court ADR Provider Panels: San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda Counties.

Community Service:
Judicial Council of California
- Member of working group that drafted the California Statewide Standards of - Conduct for Mediators in Court-Connected Mediation
San Mateo County Superior Court Multi-operation ADR Project ("M.A.P.")
- Co-founder, 1995
- Member, Oversight Committee, 1995-2000
California Dispute Resolution Council
- President, 2006
- Member, Board of Directors, 2002-2007
Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center
- Member, Advisory Council