Alan Jacobs

Mediator

Client Feedback

“…brought gravitas and a high level of understanding to the mediation and he developed rapport wonderfully.”

Languages

English

Overview

Alan Jacobs has been involved in dispute resolution for over 40 years, formerly as a partner at top 50 law firm, Mills & Reeve, having previously worked at the international law firm, DLA Piper.

One of his strengths is his background as a lawyer, where he acted for both claimants and defendants, having started his legal career at a claimant clinical negligence/personal injury practice.

His mediation work includes a wide spectrum of clinical negligence and personal injury claims, his area of expertise as a lawyer, as well as most other areas of commercial mediation, and he is a member of the Court of Appeal Mediation Panel that deals with commercial and personal injury claims referred to mediation by the Court.

He is a member of the CEDR Chambers panel of senior mediators and is a lead with CEDR Faculty, training potential mediators.

He has completed over 480 mediations in total (over 400 of which have been clinical negligence mediations), 61 of those being in the last 18 months.

He is equally comfortable mediating face to face or online (having completed over 195 online mediations to date).

Professional Background

Alan has been involved in dispute resolution for over 40 years, latterly as a partner at top 50 law firm, Mills & Reeve, having previously worked at the international law firm, DLA Piper.

One of his strengths is his background as a lawyer, where he acted for both claimants and defendants, having started his legal career at a claimant clinical negligence/personal injury practice before taking on defence work.

Expertise
  • Clinical Negligence
  • Personal Injury