Gail Andler

Orange

Business/Commercial; Class Action/Mass Tort; Employment; Healthcare; Sports and Entertainment; Personal Injury; Pharmaceuticals/Mass Tort; Professional Liability; and Real Property

Hon. Gail A. Andler (Ret.) is a full-time JAMS Mediator, Arbitrator and Special Master after more than 22 years on the Orange County Superior Court, where she served from 2007 until 2017 on the Complex Civil Litigation Panel. Her time with the court also included serving two terms as the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court's Appellate Division.

Smart, diligent, and firm but fair, Judge Andler received numerous awards from ABOTA and trial lawyer organizations. Her significant experience on the bench is both deep and wide, including managing, trying, and settling business, class action, employment, catastrophic injury and wrongful death, health care, eminent domain, sports/entertainment, professional negligence and real property cases. She managed large coordinated and consolidated product defect and injury cases in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and automotive industries. Her experience also includes consumer and employment class actions and PAGA as well as sexual assault and sexual harassment cases.

As a mediator, Judge Andler approaches each matter thoroughly prepared and is known to be evaluative, patient and persistent, as well as skilled at establishing a rapport with the clients. Judge Andler draws on her experience as a judge and trial attorney when serving as a neutral evaluator in mock trials, and she uses her complex civil litigation experience to approach her arbitrations in an organized and managerial manner. Her approach is flexible and she often finds creative solutions to difficult problems. Counsel has stated of her, "Judge Andler was thoughtful, thorough and tenacious. She continued to push the parties on all fronts in order to obtain a resolution." "Judge Andler was terrific. She was thoroughly prepared and her experience with complex class action settlements was of great assistance."

tlunceford@jamsadr.com

714-937-8251

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