Robert Amador, Esq.
Robert Amador, Esq.
Arbitrator/Mediator
Mr. Amador has four decades of experience as a business and healthcare attorney in Los Angeles. His experience includes transaction, compliance and federal and state litigation both as in-house counsel and outside counsel in private practice representing businesses and individuals. He has arbitrated and mediated numerous complex, multi-million-dollar commercial and healthcare disputes as advocate and a neutral, including cases involving shareholder, breach of contract and partnership disputes, employment matters, collection disputes, healthcare payor and provider disputes, ERISA and managed care disputes involving surgery centers, IT service providers, multi-state dialysis companies, commercial and non-profit health plans, and provider network agreements.
PRACTICE AREAS
Business, healthcare, employment, collection and commercial disputes of all kinds, including breach of contract, ERISA, managed care and corporate matters.EXPERIENCE
Mr. Amador started his career as a business and litigation associate at two major Los Angeles business law firms. He served as Associate General Counsel and V.P. at a publicly-traded industrial conglomerate, Whittaker Corporation and as V.P. and Chief Legal Counsel of a subsidiary of a major multi-line publicly traded insurance company owned by Travelers Insurance Company. He prepared and negotiated commercial agreements and provider agreements nationwide and managed the legal department.He also served as Associate General Counsel and V.P. of a publicly-traded, multi-state HMO company, where he managed litigation nationwide.
Mr. Amador has litigated in state and federal court, including jury trials. He has mediated and arbitrated over a hundred cases as a neutral and as an advocate.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Certified Mediator, Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law, 2001Numerous courses and trainings in alternative dispute resolution. Member of national neutral panels.
Mediator Panel, United States District Court Central District of California.
Member, California Bar Association and Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Member, State Bar CLA Litigation Committee, ADR Subcommittee.
J.D. , Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA 1979
B.A., cum laude, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 1976
Mr. Amador is available throughout Southern California.
