Katherine L. Gallo

Since 1994, Katherine has acted as a private Discovery Referee or Special Master. She has been appointed by the Court or selected by the parties in over 300 hotly contested, complex litigated civil matters. Assignments have come by stipulation and Court Assignments from the Superior Courts throughout California. The representative cases handled as a Discovery Referee include the following:

• Business Disputes
• Construction Defect, Construction Claims, Delay and Fraud
• Consumer Fraud
• Family Law Community Property Issues 
• Financial Elder Abuse
• Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith   
• Multi-Party Product Liability
• Partnership Dissolutions
• Partition actions
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
• Probate
• Sexual Molestation and Abuse
• Wage and Hour claims
• Wrongful Termination, Sexual and Racial Discrimination

For the last 25 years, Katherine has been giving seminars on Discovery, written Discovery articles, and currently authors a blog on Discovery: resolvingdiscoverydisputes.com. She also provides in-house training on the Discovery process. Since 2019, Katherine has served as a contributor to the California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), writing Discovery blogs and forms and speaking in numerous Discovery seminars.

Katherine Gallo has been approved by the California State Bar as an MCLE Provider. Over the last 25 years, she has given over fifty seminars on Discovery. She has also developed a six-part Discovery Boot Camp training paralegals and young lawyers on how to create a Discovery Plan, propounding and responding to Discovery, drafting Discovery motions, and how to obtain sanctions.

For over 25 years, Katherine has also served as a Mediator and Pro Tem Settlement Conference Judge in over 500 cases with a settlement rate of 90%. She has served on the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Panels for the Superior Courts of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties. Ms. Gallo has well over 100 hours of specialized training in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, including Ethics and Fairness Training for Pro Tem Judicial Officers.

For more information, please refer to discoveryreferee.com