He began his practice in 1979 when recruited to conduct a series of highly-charged mediations between the SF Mayor’s Office, local building-trade unions, community-based job placement programs and a national retail chain of building suppliers endeavoring to situate a retail outlet in a mixed-use industrial/residential district.

 

In 1983, Mr. Jenkins assumed the position as Director of Recruitment and Training for American Intermediation Services where nationally recognized mediators, Anthony C. Piazza, Susan W. Haldeman and Arlen Gregorio began their practices as well.

 

Since then - until the present time - Jenkins' practice rapidly expanded to include all manner of multi-party litigated disputes including Partnership Dissolution, Medical Mal-practice, Wrongful Death, Multi-million dollar Pubic Works Projects in over 150 cities, forty-four states (from Hawaii to the Eastern Seaboard) and Mexico.  
(See List of Selected Case Samples)

 

In the early 80’s Jenkins traveled throughout the continental U.S. conducting mediation orientation round-tables for insurance professionals - who subsequently became ‘prime movers’ in the industry’s cautious embrace of mediation as a viable procedure for the resolution of multi-party disputes. A short list of the many participating carriers includes: Aetna, Hartford, Travelers, D.P.I.C., Industrial Indemnity, Liberty Mutual, Fireman's fund, Chubb, Maryland Casualty and RAMCO. (See Client List)

 

Over the past 35 years Mr. Jenkins has served as a court-appointed Special Master and Settlement Referee, as well as, having designed and administered court-annexed mediation and ADR programs for over eight hundred vastly diverse Corporate & Public entities, including the  Oakland  Police  Department,  Dames  &  Moore, C & H Sugar, the ILWU and Motorola.

 

Mr. Jenkins has frequently been pursued as a key-note speaker for numerous legal and professional organizations, businesses and universities. (See Partial List)

 

In 1992, as a bi-lingual practitioner, Mr. Jenkins was contracted by the U.S.I.S. and U.S.A.I.D., to provide training services in four Central and South America countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Argentina). Jenkins provided a forty-hour Mediation Training course for thirty judges and senior counsel - hand selected by the Argentine Minister of Justice, Dr. León C. Arslanian, - to advance the introduction of  commercial  mediation into Latin America.

 

Between in 2001-13 Jenkins re-situated his practice to Mexico City and Guadalajara in order to facilitate greater access to building his Spanish language client base. Currently he splits his time between Mexico and the U.S.