About Sidney Kanazawa

Sid Kanazawa is a full-time mediator/arbitrator with ARC (Alternative Resolution Centers LLC) https://www.arc4adr.com/sidney_kanazawa.php. He is a graduate of the University of Hawaii (B.Ed.), University of Southern California (J.D.), and the negotiation and mediation programs at Harvard University (Program on Negotiation), Pepperdine University (Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution), Los Angeles Superior Court, Edelman Children’s Court, and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He is known for creative, quick, and satisfactory dispute resolutions. In the largest oil spill in the Port of Los Angeles, Sid turned an angry mob into collaborators, settled 600 claims in two weeks (all 2,000+ in 3 months), and directed hundreds in a record three-month clean-up of seven miles of shoreline. After a lengthy trial, he recovered 93% of the clean-up and claims costs from another shipowner, recovered more than 100% in other settlements, and reduced the felony charges against his client to administrative fines. Sid is a prolific author/speaker/teacher, is admitted to practice in Hawaii and California, and has been a National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) instructor and program director for more than 30 years.