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title: Jill Switzer
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![Jill Switzer](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Switzer-Jill_c230499d136221ccb5446cd1c01b25fb.jpg)

# Jill Switzer

Jill Switzer is a full-time mediator affiliated with *ARC, Alternative Resolution Centers*. Her mediation practice encompasses both pre-litigation and litigated cases, emphasizing all aspects of employment disputes, as well as business, Commercial Code, lending and collection matters. Jill’s undergraduate degree is from University of California, Berkeley (Go, Bears!) and her law degree is from Whittier College School of Law. She’s served as a deputy district attorney, general counsel for a nonprofit, and Assistant General Counsel to a major financial institution. Given that Jill has practiced for forty years, her weekly column at www.abovethelaw.com is appropriately titled “Old Lady Lawyer.”

### Articles written by this author:

## [Where goes the camel’s nose?](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2016-august/where-goes-the-camel-s-nose "Where goes the camel’s nose?")

Sniffing under the tent of mediation confidentiality post-[case]Cassel[/case]

[Jill Switzer](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/jill-switzer "Jill Switzer")

[2016 August](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2016-august)