Dana Welch

Dana Welch

Dana Welch is an arbitrator and mediator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has served as arbitrator in more than 450 matters over the last 23 years. She is on the employment and complex commercial panels of the American Arbitration Association, the panel of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals. Ms. Welch is the immediate past-president of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a past president of California Arbitration, Inc.  Contact: dana@welchadr.com

Articles written by this author:

A trial lawyer’s guide to vacatur

Overturning an arbitration award: the grounds for vacatur are strictly circumscribed

Dana Welch

2026 September