Bret Geckeler

Bret is in the business of getting the best effort from everyone at the negotiating table. His litigation experience on both sides of the courtroom combined with his straight-shooting mediation style will put your path to settlement front-and-center.

Before starting his full-time mediation practice, Bret Geckeler completed a formal practicum of mediation skills training, mediated dozens of cases in Los Angeles Superior Court, and undertook a mediation-clerkship with master mediator, Howard Broadman (Ret.) where he helped successfully mediate dozens of matters across the San Joaquin Valley. Bret’s mediation experience includes personal injury, wrongful termination, PAGA, medical malpractice, landlord-tenant, contract disputes, wage and hour, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and probate cases. Bret is a member of the Southern California Mediation Association.

His prior experience as an attorney includes work with the world's foremost litigators on the most complex legal issues. While an attorney with Latham & Watkins LLP, Bret helped litigate securities law, shareholder derivative, white-collar, and multidistrict litigation matters. His pro bono work earned recognition from the firm and the California Innocence Project. Bret also has represented individual plaintiffs at every stage of the litigation process, including jury trial.

Bret and his wife have deep ties to the San Joaquin Valley where they both grew up.

California

State Bar of California

ID Number: 308004

State Bar of California  # 308004

Member

Current

New Ways for Mediation

High Conflict Institute

2023

Mediating Commercial and Litigated Cases

American Institute of Mediation

2022

Basic Mediation Skills Training

OC Human Relations

2022