Neutral Services

Neutral Services for Dispute Resolution

With a background of over 20 years in alternative dispute resolution, our Neutral Services has the knowledge and experience to help you and your clients resolve disagreements and other concerns with the other party. Neutral services include heading conciliation, providing mediation, and performing legally binding commercial arbitration adjudicating disputes between private parties via confidential hearings.

Representative Case Experience

In multiple industries, arbitration of contract-related matters, such as:

  • Breach of Contract
  • Fraud
  • Misrepresentations
  • Noncompliance with Warranties
  • Auto Manufacturing Defects
  • Unlawful Retail Installment Contracts
  • Debt Collection
  • Financing Instruments
  • Telecommunications Agreements
  • Construction and Employment Contracts
  • Commercial Liability Insurance Coverage and Exclusions
  • Annuities
  • Business Asset Sales Agreements
  • Software Design
  • Short-Term Housing
  • Online Commerce
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Various Consumer Protection Statutes

Attorney Presley provides neutral services for a myriad of securities-related disputes and interlocutory rulings on behalf of FINRA’s dispute resolution division as a panel chair, panel member, and sole arbitrator. She handles customer claims over financial investment losses and disputes between or among financial advisors and registered representatives or broker-dealers.

Her neutral services also include evaluating petitions and making recommendations to federal courts regarding expungements of certain information contained in FINRA’s Central Records Depository.

The alternative dispute resolution services also cover employment-related cases, such as:

  • Wrongful Terminations
  • Violations of State or Federal Employment Discrimination and Protection Statutes
    • Wage/Hour
    • Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
    • Sexual Harassment
    • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  • Application of State Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practice Statutes
  • Interpretation of Provisions in Personnel Manuals
  • Board Disputes with Corporate Executives
  • Enforceability of Noncompete, Non-Solicit, and Trade Secret Contract Provisions
  • Theft of Corporate Opportunity
  • Medical Practice Disputes among Partners and Employees

Extensive experience determining the enforceability of documents conveying interests in real property, including commercial leases, deeds, easements, and land boundaries, interpreting land use covenants and restrictions, zoning ordinances, master condominium declarations and bylaws, condo board powers, real estate listing agreements, and brokerage commissions.

Adjudicating disputes between general contractors, property owners, subcontractors, architects, engineers, and insurers. These cases concern the American Institute of Architects (AIA) contract provisions, including mechanics liens, workmanship, warranties, and other construction-related matters.