Hon. Suzanne K. Nusbaum, FCIArb, draws on more than 30 years of distinguished judicial and neutral dispute resolution experience to assist counsel in resolving both their simple and most complex civil cases. She works cooperatively with litigators and clients to design the best dispute resolution procedure for their dispute.

Judge Nusbaum arbitrates both nationally and internationally. Her areas of expertise include business, employment, health care, personal injury, consumer and intellectual property disputes.

She graduated Cum Laude from Smith College, and has a JD from Boston University and an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from Santa Clara University School of Law.

Judge Nusbaum serves on many ADR panels, including ICDR, AAA, AAMS, WIPO, AHLA and FINRA.

She annually judges the Chinese National Rounds of the Jessup International Moot Court, where she was voted “best judge” in 2011.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and chaired its Northern California Chapter from 2008 to 2015.

In her decade and a half as an appellate Administrative Law Judge, Judge Nusbaum was held in high regard for her organizational skill, prodigious hard work, diligence, intelligence and legal mastery. Her judicial excellence was acknowledged by public nomination, confirmation and reappointment in two states. She now brings those exceptional skills to her full-time neutral ADR practice.