Personal bio
Tamara Lange’s full-spectrum arbitration and mediation practice includes cross-border and complex disputes involving business, employment, healthcare, IP, and wrongful death/catastrophic injury. She has worked exclusively as a neutral since 2015 and values thorough preparation, deep listening, procedural fairness, and efficiency.
Ms. Lange is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, an Associate in the College of Commercial Arbitrators, and a member of CalArb. She understands the importance to the parties of timely, well-reasoned decisions that reflect a comprehensive understanding of the relevant law and the evidence presented. Counsel say Ms. Lange is “calm, smart, effective, and respectful” and “appropriately exercise[s] control.” They appreciate her “patience, empathy, warmth, candor, and professionalism,” and praise her as “an excellent mediator, one of the best.”
Before joining JAMS, Ms. Lange was ADR Director for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, where she mediated and evaluated hundreds of cases and supervised a sophisticated panel of 250 federal court neutrals. In the first 20 years of her legal career, Ms. Lange wore many hats, representing individual plaintiffs and class representatives, corporate and individual defendants, and local governments and government officials, and working at a global law firm, a litigation boutique, local government, and nonprofit organizations. Ms. Lange served on the Litigation Overview Committee for the California State Association of Counties and was awarded the County Counsel Association of California’s Dwight Herr Perpetual Award for Outstanding Appellate Practice.