Metcalf - Dallas, Texas

About

Michael P. “Mike” Metcalf doing enterprise as Metcalf Mediation & Arbitration Services is engaged within the exercise of regulation that facilities on the mediation and arbitration of civil disputes. Judge Metcalf has more than 40 years of criminal revel in that includes provider inside the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corp, as a District Lawyer, District Judge and trial attorney. Mike, a tribulation attorney, is board-certified via the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law.
Judge Metcalf changed into a judicial pioneer who identified the need for litigants to are searching for a resolution to their case earlier than trial. As District Judge of a six county Judicial District with a heavy trial docket, Mike identified a deeply unfulfilled want to discover agreement of cases pending in his court. Long before mediation have become a part of the contemporary criminal system, Judge Metcalf instituted a device of settlement meetings in his Court. The settlement conferences had been a precursor to mediation. The settlement meetings were designed to offer the parties an opportunity to talk about agreement in their dispute earlier than going to trial.
From a various heritage of having served the legal profession for over 40 years beginning as an Army JAG officer, then as a tribulation legal professional and Judge, Mike now focuses his effort exclusively on the Arbitration and Mediation of civil disputes. His paintings as a mediator has ended in a song document of getting introduced masses of disputes to an stop through agreement.
A robust document of settling disputes springs from a completely unique mediation method Mike commenced. His mediation procedure is one which is calculated to inspire the events to preserve with the mediation system. In instances Mike mediates if the case does now not settle at the primary consultation, he recesses the mediation and proffers to the events the opportunity to return for a free two hour round “wrap up” session. › ›

Legal Issues

Arbitration & Mediation

Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Personal Injury

Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death

Employment Law

Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination

Construction Law

Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation

Consumer Law

Class Action, Lemon Law

Family Law

Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law

Insurance Claims

Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance

Real Estate Law

Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law

Insurance Defense

Securities Law

Landlord Tenant

Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants Rights

Patents

Patent Appeals, Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution

• Car Accidents
• Insurance Bad Faith

Costs

• Retaines and Rates
  Current fee structure for mediation and arbitration offerings can be determined at the internet site: www.metcalfmediation.com

Certificates

Languages

• Chinese

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Awarded by D Magazine
  2016 D Magazine Best Lawyers in Dallas-Alternative Dispute Resolution/Mediation
  2016
• has membership
  Dallas Bar Association
  1990
• has membership
  Dallas Trial Lawyers Association
  1990
• “AV” Preeminent rating
  Martindale Hubbell
  1979
• Board has membership
  State Bar of Texas Insurance Trust
  1979
• District Judge
  69 th Judicial District Texas
  1975
• District Lawyer
  69th Judicial District Texas
  1971
• Served as an officer
  69th Judicial District Bar Association
  1972
• Assistant Staff Judge Advocate
  United States Army
  1966
• has membership
  Pi Chiao Law Society (Chinese)
  1967
• Sergeant at Arms
  Rotary Club of Taipei
  1967

Educations

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