Profession: Attorney/ Mediator/Arbitrator
Ms. Hershorin has been a civil litigation attorney for the past 16 years representing clients, both defendants and plaintiffs, in real property disputes, title insurance claims, insurance bad faith cases, business and commercial litigation, employment cases, personal injury matters and medical malpractice litigation. Since 2003, Ms. Hershorin has been an Arbitrator for the Orange County and Los Angeles County Bar Associations and has been a Court-Certified Mediator for the Riverside Superior Court and Los Angeles Superior Court resolving a high percentage of cases. Ms. Hershorin additionally has served as a temporary judge for the Orange County Superior Court since 1998 to the present.
ADR Experience and Qualifications: Ms. Hershorin’s diverse background enables her to take a practical and pragmatic approach in resolving the most challenging legal disputes. She has served as a private mediator as well as a Court-Appointed Mediator for the Riverside Superior Court and Los Angeles Superior Courts since 2003. In addition, Ms. Hershorin has served as an arbitrator for the Los Angeles County and Orange County Bar Associations. Her comprehensive litigation background along with her experience as a temporary judge, mediation training, arbitration training, and experience of mediating hundreds of cases provides Ms. Hershorin with the ability to settle the most complex legal matters.
Ms. Hershorin has mediated numerous cases covering the following legal topics:
- Real Estate: Commercial and residential real estate issues involving title disputes, boundary line disputes, easements, right-of ways, broker disputes, leases, non-disclosure in real estate transactions, buyer-seller disputes, wrongful foreclosure issues and escrow disputes.
- Business: Business disputes, partnership dissolutions, unfair competition and unfair business practices.
- Insurance: Breach of insurance contracts and bad faith.
- Employment: Wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, and employment disputes.
- Torts: Fraud, negligence, defamation, trespass, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Personal Injury: Numerous negligence cases, medical malpractice and dental malpractice.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Training: Attended the prestigious Pepperdine Program – the Strauss Institute –“Mediating the Litigated Case”, and the American Arbitration Association - Court Certification Program.
Lectures: During her career, Ms. Hershorin has given several lectures on real property issues, developments in California law pertaining to the real estate industry, bad faith insurance litigation, prevention of sexual harassment, prevention of discrimination, elimination of bias, and general civil litigation procedures.
Appeals: Ms. Hershorin additionally has prevailed on 12 out of 12 Appeals, and is responsible for the first published decisions in the State of California concerning the definition of “lack of access” under a title insurance policy and sub-escrow duties of a title insurance company. The published decisions are entitled Magna Enterprises v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 122 and Markowitz v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company (2006) 142 Cal. App. 4th 508.
Professional Licenses: Admitted to practice: California (1991); Indiana (1991); U.S. District Court of California (1992).
Professional Associations: Member of the Orange County Bar Association – Litigation, Insurance and Labor Sections, Riverside County Bar Association and CLTA.
Education:
Honors:
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Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, J.D. (1991)
Indiana University - Bloomington B.S. (1986)
Phi Alpha Delta (Pre Law Society)
Phi Mu Sorority
Indiana University, IndianapolisM
Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis
Indiana University School of Law - “Note Development Editor” for Indiana Law Review
Order of the Barristers – Moot Court Society
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Published Decisions: Magna Enterprises v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 122 (Established definition of lack of access in title insurance policy); Markowitz v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company (2006) 142 Cal. App. 4th 508 (Defines sub-escrow role of title insurance company)
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