Introduction

After 25 years on the San Diego Superior Court bench, Judge Linda Quinn joined Judicate West in 2012. She is available for mediations, arbitrations, and all other private judging assignments. While on the bench she handled hundreds of settlement conferences in her sixteen years in the civil department, as well as sitting in the Family Court for four years. She also conducted settlement conferences for the Fourth District Court of Appeals while on a special assignment to that court. While serving with the superior court, Judge Quinn enjoyed a reputation for being fair, bright, thoughtful and courteous. Since joining Judicate West, she has mediated and arbitrated employment, family, medical malpractice, real property matters, personal injury, legal malpractice and various types of business/commercial matters. Clients have noted "she worked very hard at settling our case. She is a great listener and cares."

Practice Areas

• Business/Commercial
  • Consumer Class Action
  • Contractual
  • Fraud/Misrepresentation
• Cannabis
  • Cannabis Industry
• Employment
  • Discrimination
  • Wage and Hour
  • Wage and Hour Class Action
  • Whistleblower Wrongful Term
• Family Law
  • Family Law Issues
• Intellectual Property
  • IP Trade Secrets
• Professional Malpractice
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Professional Malpractice Legal

Hobbies & Interests

Traveling, Inn to Inn hiking, Volunteering - USO

Testimonials

"Very patient and conciliatory, which was a big plus."
- Attorney on a business/contractual dispute

"Judge Quinn took time before the mediation to get to know the issues and the attorneys, and this really made for a better result. We could not have been happier."
- Attorney, Orange County, CA

"Judge Quinn did a great job bringing the parties together and obtaining a settlement. She did a great job getting the case into position to resolve."
- Attorney, San Francisco, CA

"Judge Quinn captured the trust of all of us right away, and showed great interest in hearing the issues and complains, specially giving both parties all the time they needed up to very late at night to come to some kind of resolution unlike many efforts in the past 8 months by different people and different approaches"
- Attorney on a business/contractual dispute

Legal Career

• Neutral, Judicate West, (2012-present)
• Judge, San Diego Superior Court (1989-2012) (Supervisor Civil Division 2005-2007)
• Judge, San Diego Municipal Court (1987-1989)
• Partner, Platt, Tebbetts & Boelhauf (1983-1989) business/real property firm
• Associate, Platt, Tebbetts & Peterson (1978-1983)

Education & Professional Affiliations

• J.D., California Western School of Law
• B.A., University of California, San Diego
• Co-Chair of the San Diego High School Mock Trial committee (2012-present)
• Master, Clifford B. Wallace Inn of Court (2014-present)
• Judicial Advisory Committee, Association of Business Trial Lawyers (2014-present)
• San Diego Inns of Court, Board of Directors (2012-present)
• Master, Louis Welch Inn of Court (2007-2008)
• Co-Chair, San Diego Superior Court, ADR committee (2002-2011)
• California Judges Association (1987-present)
• President, San Diego County Judges Association (2002-2003)
• Mediating the litigated case, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University of Law (2012)

Achievements & Awards

• Judge Quinn has presented programs for ABTL, Lawyers Club, SDCBA, Rutter Group, USD Vicam International, CEB, CASD, and San Diego Inns of Court.
• Recent articles include; Dust off the Toolbox to Move Your Case Along. Journal of Consumer Attorneys Associations for Southern California September 2013
• Sua Sponte, The New Parole Ankle Bracelet: Your Smartphone. ABA The Journal of the Section of Litigation Spring 2014
• Sua Sponte, Tort Transformation in the Cultural Quicksand of Language and Values. ABA The Journal of the Section of Litigation Spring 2013

Legal Experience

• Business/Commercial
• Real Property, including CEQA
• Employment
• Medical/Legal Malpractice
• Personal Injury
• Family

Representative Case Information

• Business/Commercial
• Cannabis
• Employment
• Family Law
• Intellectual Property
• Professional Malpractice