ADR Experience
Worked full time as a mediator since 2003 with high success rate in areas of trust and estate matters, elder law, business, real estate, and tort litigation.  Experience includes over 35 years of handling business litigation in state and federal courts, including appellate experience. Subjects include securities broker/dealer litigation; commercial litigation, commercial loan and banking matters. Mr. Phelps has been involved in real estate development including planning commission and city council matters. He has experience in corporate and banking transactional matters, including commercial leasing, real estate development for commercial use and regional shopping centers, loan documentation, purchase and sale documentation. He has also served as a court appointed referee and private professional fiduciary.

Representative Cases Handled As Mediator
Served as mediator in a wide variety of litigated and pre-litigation matters that involved trust and estate litigation, elder abuse cases, real estate developers, municipalities, local businesses, professional partnerships, real estate buyers, sellers, insurance companies and professionals.

Multi-Party Dispute Resolution Experience
As mediator, assisted in several complex litigation matters involving multi-party partnership dissolution, complex fire cases, pre-litigation dispute resolution involving buyers, sellers, and real estate licensees, brokers and developers.

ADR Experience
Experience includes over 35 years of experience in arbitration and mediation as an advocate. Served as neutral for the Los Angeles Superior Court Pay Panel, Pro Bono Panel, the Los Angeles Superior Court Probate Panel and national panel of mediators through Mediation Network.net,. and as a Settlement Officer for the United States District Court, Central District.

ADR Training
Completed both basic and advanced mediation training courses at Loyola Law School through Loyola Law School's Disability Mediation Center, advanced mediation training programs presented by the mediation faculty from Pepperdine University sponsored by the United States District Court, Central District and the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Professional Licenses
Admitted to the California State Bar in 1975; U.S. District Court: Central (1975), US Tax Court (1978).