Kere Tickner

Kere Tickner

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.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

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.

Representative Matters

Business Commercial
  • Construction claims, construction defects, contractors and subcontractor claims
  • Written and oral contract claims
  • Business dissolution and petition claims
HOA/Common Interest Developments
  • Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, Corporations Code
  • Claims involving breaches of recorded covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs)
  • Board of Director and Architectural Review Committee breach of fiduciary duty claims, corporate compliance, discrimination, nuisance, foreclosure, misrepresentation and fraud claims, enforcement of architectural guidelines, Federal and State Debt Collections Practices Acts as related to collection of HOA dues, fines and assessments, judgments and liens by HOAs
  • CC&R/bylaws/Governing document breach claims involving both homeowners and homeowners associations
  • HOA/Community Association compliance with balcony statute of the Davis-Stirling Act and claims involving Special Assessments in order to obtain compliance
  • Mixed use HOA/Community Association disputes among members and business owners, including voting rights and assessments and allocations of maintenance and repairs costs between same
  • Damages to common areas (including soils movement, landslides, subsidence and vegetation loss), including claims against third parties and claims to insurance carriers
  • Association maintenance easements to members and disputes over same
Labor and Employment/Wage and Hour
  • Employer and Employee claims involving discrimination, harassment, disability accommodations, retaliation, failure to engage in interactive process, adverse employment actions and wrongful termination
  • Wage and hour claims including overtime, meal and rest breaks, waiting time penalties, failure to engage in interactive process, personal use of electronic equipment for business purposes and use of personal vehicles for business purposes
Insurance
  • Bad faith and breach of contract claims
  • Coverage issues and tenders of defense
Personal Injury
  • Catastrophic injury, TBI and wrongful death claims
  • Auto and trucking accidents
  • Premises liability and dangerous condition claims
  • Toxic torts including lead, asbestos, silicosis, mold, and benzene
Real Estate/Real Property
  • Landlord/Tenant matters including habitability, disability accommodation and ADA, wrongful foreclosure and breach of contract
  • Easements and land use, quiet title claims
  • Neighbor to Neighbor and HOA disputes

Honors, Memberships and Professional Activities

Memberships

Background and Education