The National Association of Legal Fee Analysis (NALFA) is pleased to announce that Phillip Neiman, Esq., FCIArb has been named a Fellow of the association.

Mr. Neiman, a full-time neutral with JAMS in San Francisco, specializes in the resolution of complex business and commercial disputes.  He devotes much of his practice to securities and investment-related cases, including shareholder, partnership and M&A disputes, and has substantial experience in a range of other areas, including employment, insurance, IP, real property, professional liability, personal injury and privacy tort cases, as well as fintech and cannabis sector disputes.

Prior to establishing his ADR practice in 2004, Mr. Neiman spent a decade as CEO and General Counsel of a FINRA-registered investment bank.

Mr. Neiman has extensive experience resolving attorney fee disputes, both as an arbitrator ruling on contested fee petitions and as a mediator overseeing settlement negotiations with a fee component.  He has addressed a range of complex issues in contractual and statutory fee award cases, including lodestar adjustments, prevailing party determinations in partial success and disproportionate damages cases, multiparty apportionment, privilege claims related to billing records, Daubert challenges and assertions of bad faith litigation practices, among others.   

Mr. Neiman is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

For more on Phillip Neiman, visit https://www.jamsadr.com/Neiman/