Ethics Café Series: ERs 4.2 & 4.3

Renee Gerstman Related Seminars and Products

Arbitrator | Mediator | Attorney at Law

Gerstman Law

Renee Gerstman is an attorney, mediator, arbitrator and neutral evaluator with over three decades of experience in business transactions, real estate, construction, corporate, contract, commercial and business litigation. Renee has arbitrated and mediated all types of disputes ranging from small consumer matters to large construction defect claims. Renee is on the American Arbitration Association's Roster of Commercial Neutrals, AAA Construction panel and Merger and Acquisition panel. She is also on the Arizona Association of Realtors roster of mediators, a FINRA mediator, arbitrator and chairperson and conducts ad hoc arbitrations and mediations. She has been listed as a Southwest Super Lawyer in alternative dispute resolution since 2017. Renee is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, AV rated by Martindale Hubbel and a senior fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. She has been a member of the State Bar's Fee Arbitration Program since 1991 and chaired the Program from 2012-2014. She currently serves on the State Bar's Ethics Advisory Group and on the Executive Council of the State Bar of Arizona's Alternative Dispute Resolution Section.

Patricia A Sallen Related Seminars and Products

Patricia A. Sallen (480-290-4841; psallen@ethicsatlaw.com) is a lawyer in private practice focusing on professional responsibility. She represents lawyers in discipline and admission matters, provides ethics advice to lawyers, serves as an expert witness on professional-responsibility issues, and consults on a myriad of other ethics-related topics. She regularly presents at CLE seminars and publishes articles about professional responsibility and writes the Eye on Ethics column for Arizona Attorney magazine. She taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law for more than a decade. In addition to practicing in private law firms, she spent more than 15 years working for the State Bar of Arizona as both a bar counsel and ethics counsel and supervised programs such as the Fee Arbitration Program and Client Protection Fund. She served as expert consultant to the Arizona Supreme Court's 2014-15 comprehensive ethical rules review effort and to the Court’s 2019-20 Task Force on the Delivery of Legal Services, which resulted in the groundbreaking rule changes allowing non-lawyer firm ownership and legal paraprofessionals and also served the Supreme Court’s Task Force on Ethics Rules Governing the State Attorney General, County Attorneys, and Other Public Lawyers. She current serves on the State Bar’s Ethics Advisory Group and the city of Phoenix Ethics Commission, which oversees the investigation and enforcement of the gift policy and conflicts of interest related to elected Phoenix officials and board and commission members.

Gianni Pattas Related Seminars and Products

Gianni Pattas is an Equity Shareholder at Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., focusing on civil and business litigation, with a primary emphasis on real estate disputes, including both commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes, commercial and residential evictions, contract matters, business divorce, and personal injury. Gianni also serves as outside general counsel to small and medium-sized businesses, provides mediation services, and holds appointments with the State Bar of Arizona, including the Fee Arbitration Program and Ethics Advisory Group.