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Carol Millie | Resume

Practice Areas

Business, partnership and other civil litigation
Contract disputes, including commercial and private
Labor and employment, including wrongful termination, harassment and discrimination
Trade secrets, unfair competition, intellectual property disputes
Preventive Law for Corporations
Organizational facilitation

Experience as a Neutral

Carol conducted her first mediation when she was in high school. Since that time she has served as an arbitrator, early neutral evaluator or mediator in approximately 150 cases.

She has served as a neutral in cases including theft of trade secrets, unfair competition, contract performance disputes, malpractice, and public and private employment disputes including sex discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination. In addition to mediation generated by litigation, she conducts in-house mediations between management and employees and between business units.

Beginning in 1979, Carol conducted arbitrations under the Attorney/Commercial Rules Project of the American Arbitration Association in Dallas, Texas and served as Vice Chairman of the Dallas Civil Service Board, where she conducted over one hundred appeal hearings over four years involving demotions and terminations. After law school she conducted arbitrations in the Sacramento, California area, with the Juvenile Offender Project of the California Youth Authority.

Law Practice Experience

Carol has worked as a business attorney in the Silicon Valley since 1989, including service as senior in-house counsel in an NYSE high tech company. She has advised emerging companies and individuals on day-to-day business decisions ranging from contracts, theft of trade secrets, strategic licensing, and business reversals to violence in the workplace and wrongful termination. In addition, she has represented municipal entities as outside counsel to the city attorney and county counsel.

Carol represents clients in negotiation of agreements involving strategic alliances, research and development of semiconductor capital equipment, telecommunications and microwave electronics products. Her experience in the Pacific Rim includes the construction of a research and demonstration facility in Kawasaki, Japan and the establishment of business entities across Asia and Europe. In addition, she has handled labor and employment matters for international clients, including a sex harassment case in Asia.

Education

The University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D. December, 1976
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, B.A., December 1966
Professional Licenses and Memberships

The Mediation Society
California Dispute Resolution Council
Association for Conflict Resolution
Bar of the United States Supreme Court
California State Bar of California; Sections on: Business Law, Intellectual Property Practice, International Law and Labor and Employment Law
Bar of the United States District Court, Northern District of California
State Bar of Texas
American Bar Association; Sections on: Labor and Employment Law, Intellectual Property Law
Santa Clara County Bar Association, Executive Committee of the ADR Committee, Member, Sections on: Technology, International, Labor and Employment Law.
Palo Alto Bar Association
ADR Training

MEDIATION TRAINING

University of California, Berkeley, Certificate in Mediation, 2003
US District Court Early Neutral Evaluation Training, 10/01
US District Court Mediation Training, 11/01.
Santa Clara County Department of Human Relations Mediation Training, 11/01, 9/02, 10/02.
Mediation Training, Steve Rosenberg, Marin County, 1999
AAA Mediator Training, 10/98.
Faculty, Employment Law Institute for Corporate Counsel, Alternative Dispute Resolution Panel, 1995.
JAMS Mediation Training, 1994.

ARBITRATION TRAINING

Various American Arbitration Association ADR training courses from 1977 to 2003, including Commercial Arbitrator Training, in 1977, 1979, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999 and 2001.

Carol's Bio

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