Personal bio
Tamara Lange is an arbitrator and mediator at JAMS with experience as a neutral in hundreds of cases across a wide range of subject matter areas, including U.S. federal law, employment, health care, commercial, civil rights, wrongful death, and IP. She previously served as ADR Director for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and had a long career as a litigator representing individual and class plaintiffs, individual and corporate defendants, and local governments. Counsel describe her as having “immense degrees of patience, empathy, warmth, candor, and professionalism” and say she is “calm, smart, effective, and respectful, and appropriately exercise[s] control.”
Ms. Lange is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Associate to the College of Commercial Arbitrators. In her arbitration practice, she focuses on thorough preparation, procedural fairness, accuracy, and efficiency. She recognizes the importance to the parties of timely, well-reasoned decisions that reflect a comprehensive understanding of the relevant law and the evidence presented.
As a litigator, Ms. Lange handled IP, class-action, insurance coverage, commercial, environmental, and entertainment cases at a global law firm in San Francisco and a litigation boutique in Los Angeles. She led and collaborated on constitutional, civil rights, employment, disability, detention conditions and education-related litigation as a senior attorney at the national ACLU and the National Center for Youth Law. As a lead deputy in the Office of the County Counsel for Santa Clara County and as a solo practitioner and health policy consultant to local governments, she focused on health care litigation, policy, and regulatory compliance and on litigation involving employment, business, local government, consumer protection and constitutional law.
Ms. Lange has served as faculty for judicial trainings offered by the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, the California Center for Judicial Education and Research, and the Los Angeles Superior Court. She graduated with honors from Cornell University and Berkeley Law and served as a law clerk for judges in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.