Kere K. Tickner has over 27 years of highly complex experience as an attorney, litigator, and trial attorney. She is now putting her extensive career experience to use as a mediator, arbitrator, neutral evaluator, and/or referee, handling matters remotely and in-person.
During Ms. Tickner’s legal career, her work and expertise covered a wide range of practice areas, including HOA/community associations, labor and employment, premises liability, catastrophic personal injury/wrongful death, general business disputes, commercial and residential landlord tenant disputes, and toxic torts, and insurance among others, in both State and Federal court. Ms. Tickner has also handled matters in administrative proceedings before the EEOC, DFEH, EDD, Labor Board and Unemployment Appeals Board.
While Ms. Tickner’s trial skills and results speak for themselves, she was and is also known for her unique ability to find ways to resolve and settle even the most difficult, contentious, hard-fought cases short of trial. Ms. Tickner works diligently and determinedly with neutrals and mediators to find common ground between even the most adversarial opposing parties and counsel. Ms. Tickner has a well-known reputation for building bridges and finding paths to settlement even in those hotly contested matters which appear headed directly to trial.
Ms. Tickner was also the subject of a featured article in The Daily Journal on October 18, 2024, for her complete defense verdict in the HOA/toxic exposure matter of Virgili v. Newport Crest after a lengthy jury trial in Orange County Superior Court.
She has also participated in numerous seminar panels on Labor and Employment, Litigation, Settlement Strategies and HOA/Common Interest development matters.