Chapman Negrete understands legal disputes can be stressful, time-consuming, and costly. Mediation offers a more collaborative and efficient way to resolve conflicts outside the courtroom. Arbitration offers a private, efficient alternative to litigation.

Mediation provides a confidential, less adversarial approach to resolve disputes. It allows all parties to have an active role in shaping the outcome, leading to solutions that are often more creative, personalized, and enduring. Whether you are dealing with construction or design defect claims or contract disagreements, mediation offers numerous benefits.

Jeff Chapman and Jerry Negrete bring their combined decades of experience and a deep commitment to helping parties achieve fair, reasonable, and amicable resolutions through mediation. If you are looking for an experienced mediator to help resolve your dispute, contact us to schedule a mediation. We look forward to the opportunity to assist you in resolving your dispute.

• Payment disputes
• Delay claims
• Wrongful termination claims
• Performance disputes
• Design and construction defect disputes
• Transactional disputes

• Cost-Effective: Avoid high litigation fees.
• Timesaving: Reach a resolution faster than through traditional legal processes.
• Confidential: Keep sensitive information out of the public record.
• Flexible Solutions: Craft resolutions that fit your unique needs.
• Control: Parties maintain control over the outcome rather than leaving decisions to a judge, jury, or arbitrator.

• Industry expertise: Parties can select arbitrators with specific construction law and industry knowledge.
• Speed: Arbitration proceedings are typically resolved significantly faster than cases moving through civil court dockets.
• Privacy: Unlike court proceedings, arbitration is private. Sensitive business information, contract terms, and financial details are not part of the public record.
• Finality: Arbitration awards are binding and are subject to only very limited grounds for challenge, providing certainty and closure.
• Flexibility: Parties have substantial control over procedural rules, scheduling, and the selection of their neutral.

Jerry Negrete serves on the American Arbitration Association Panel of Construction Arbitrators.

Parties and counsel seeking an arbitrator with substantive construction law expertise may request Jerry through the AAA’s arbitrator selection process.