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Matthew W. Argue has a long history of involvement with construction litigation. Based in San Diego, he is a full-time neutral focusing on construction, insurance and real estate mediation and arbitration in San Diego, Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties.
Mr. Argue has over 20 years of experience in complex construction disputes, mediation and arbitration. Mr. Argue has successfully mediated over 200 construction cases to settlement. Mr. Argue has furthered his mediation experience by co-mediating with Ross Hart, Esq., Judge Peter Lichtman, and Judge Stephen Sundvold among others. Mr. Argue serves on the following mediation and arbitration panels: AMCC Panel of Construction Mediators; American Arbitration Association Panel of Complex Construction Mediators and Arbitrators; California State License Board Arbitrator; and Construction Dispute Resolution Services Mediator and Arbitrator. Mr. Argue’s mediation training includes mediation externship with a distinguished Federal District Court Judge Lawrence Irving (Ret.), observing prominent mediators including Randall Wulff, Esq., Craig Higgs, Esq., Scott Marcus, Esq. and Honorable Judge Herbert Hoffman (Ret.). , after which he obtained his Mediator’s Credential from the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego and completed Pepperdine Law School’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution mediator training programs focusing on “Mediating the Litigated Case” and “Mediating Complex Construction Disputes”.
Mr. Argue regularly lectures and writes on mediation and construction law issues. Most recently, he has published several articles in the American Arbitration Association’s Dispute Resolution Journal entitled Do’s and Don’ts Representing Clients in Mediation and American Inns of Court’s The Bencher Magazine entitled Work and Life Balance after Two Types of Cancer, and is a frequent speaker on construction topics including West Coast Casualty’s Construction Defect Seminar in Anaheim, California, Vendome’s Construction Super Conference in San Francisco, California, and to the San Diego and Orange County bar associations.”
In his construction litigation practice, Mr. Argue was an associate and then Partner with the San Diego law firm of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves and Savitch LLP from 1989 to 2001. In 1997, he became the head of the construction litigation department for the firm. Mr. Argue represented both large developer defendants and plaintiffs in construction defect cases. Some of his more notable cases are: (1) representation of plaintiffs in the largest verdict at that time in San Diego County for a luxury-home residential construction defect case ($2.5 million), (2) representation of 84 plaintiffs in AAS v. Superior Court which was appealed to the California Supreme Court and changed the recovery of damages in construction defect cases, (3) representation of state-wide developer, The Grupe Company, in defense of construction defect cases throughout State of California.
Mr. Argue received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California Law Center in 1989, and graduated cum laude from San Diego State University with an undergraduate degree in Political Science in 1986. Mr. Argue is licensed in a number of different jurisdictions including California, Nevada, Washington, Colorado and Texas.