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Ms. Curtis mediates civil disputes in private practice in a wide range of substantive areas, including:
- civil rights
- divorce
- employment & labor (discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, invasion of privacy)
- education
- environmental
- insurance
- intellectual property (publishing, entertainment, high tech and various other manufacturing industries)
- partnership and shareholder disputes
- personal injury
- probate
- product liability
- real property
She began practice as a full-time mediator in 1991 with Mediation Law Offices in Mill Valley and served as Circuit Mediator with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco from 1993 until 1997. She also teaches mediation at Stanford Law School as a member of Stanford’s Negotiation and Mediation Program. Prior to becoming a mediator, Ms. Curtis served as law clerk to Associate Justice Edward A. Panelli of the California Supreme Court and practiced commercial and employment litigation with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen in San Francisco and San Jose.
For the past ten years, she has designed and facilitated programs for various law schools, businesses, court panels, private groups, bar associations and professional conferences throughout the United States, training judges and lawyers in mediation skills.
Ms. Curtis is Co-Chair of the Mediation Committee of the San Francisco Bar Association. In 2003, she was named as one of the 50 "Best Neutrals" by the Los Angeles Daily Journal.