• Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, the Center for Mediation in Law and the American Institute of Mediation

Richard R. Rudnansky has been involved in Alternative Dispute Resolution in one form or another and in various capacities for over 25 years. He has completed well over 100 hours of mediation training including training with the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University, the Center for Mediation in Law and the American Institute of Mediation.
Before retiring from the day to day practice of law after 35 years to devote his full attention to mediation, Mr. Rudnansky was a principal with the law firm of Meyers Nave and the managing partner of the firm's Santa Rosa office.

Mr. Rudnansky has ecperience in state and federal courts, in a wide range of cases including but not limited to tort (e.g. motor vehicle, dangerous condition of public property), civil rights (e.g. due process and equal protection, police procedures and use of force), insurance law and coverage, inverse condemnation (e.g. landslides, floods, takings), environmental (e.g. California Environmental Quality Act), land use (e.g. land use entitlements, zoning, easement and boundary disputes, real estate), municipal and governmental disputes; mobile home park rent control, nuisance; and contract disputes.