Arbitrator Profile
Dec. 13, 2008
The Risk Taker
Michael Ornstil, who started mediation as a gamble, is still willing to go out on a limb.
Daily Journal Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Ornstil's career as a mediator started as a huge gamble. With two young children, and a successful career as a defense attorney with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Ornstil was not looking for a job. But a law school friend who had started his own arbitration firm with a colleague were doing well, and in 1994, asked Ornstil to join them. "The problem was that I had ...
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