About

Dana Welch’s extensive experience – as a commercial and securities litigator and as the general counsel for two financial institutions – enables her to understand complex legal and business problems and to find pragmatic solutions to business disputes.

Ms. Welch’s litigation experience has ranged from large securities class actions to complex contract and commercial disputes, to various employment matters, including wrongful termination and gender, race and age discrimination.  She is the former General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Robertson Stephens, the former San Francisco-based technology investment bank, as well as the former General Counsel for Ameriquest Capital Corporation.  In addition, she was co-managing partner of the San Francisco office of Ropes & Gray.  Ms. Welch was the founding Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy at Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, where she continues on the Advisory Board. She is a member of the State Bar of California's Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Her extensive arbitration experience includes securities, investment management, employment, licensing, intellectual property, and breach of contract disputes.  She has mediated employment and commercial cases.

She is on the American Arbitration Association’s National Roster of Commercial Arbitrators, its Large Complex Case Panel, its Complex Investments Panel, its Employment Panel, and its National Research Exchange Panel.  She has served in the Early Settlement programs of Contra Costa and San Francisco counties, as well as with the Northern District of California ADR program.

Ms. Welch graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, Order of the Coif. She received the Stephen Finney Jamison Award for the graduate best combining the attributes of a scholar and advocate as well as first prize in the McBaine Honors Moot Court competition.