Kathi M. Sandweiss

Kathi Sandweiss, a former award-winning television journalist, enjoys a combined arbitration and appellate practice. She has practiced civil litigation nearly 4 decades and, since 2016, has been an active commercial arbitrator on the roster of the American Arbitration Association. In her capacity as a neutral, Kathi has resolved a variety of high dollar, complex commercial disputes including those involving UCC and agriculture law; complex pharmaceutical agreements; breach of license agreements; energy agreements; complex asbestos claims under settlement trusts; use of "baseball" or pendulum arbitration; online sales agreements; franchise agreements; service agreements; cannabis/CBD industry transactions; loan agreements; personal guarantees; Sherman Act/antitrust disputes; and landlord/tenant disputes. Kathi has chaired multiple three arbitrator panels including those in complex health care, cannabis industry disputes, and online sales. She is on the Executive Council of the ADR Section of the Arizona State Bar. Kathi is Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named in Best Lawyers in America- Appellate Practice: every year, 2016 – 2025; Phoenix Magazine - Top Lawyer, Appellate Law, 2022, 2023, 2024; Best Lawyers, Women in the Law 2017; and won a Rocky Mountain Emmy Award in 1983.

Available for Zoom hearings throughout the country. 

• J.D., Arizona State University School of Law, 1986
• B.A., University of California Los Angeles, 1977

ADR training, presentations and seminars

• Presenter at AZ State Bar Convention 2021 - ADR Section  - my discussion of Henry Schein, Inc. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc., 139 S. Ct. 524 (2019) and arbitrability 
• AAA -  "Panelist Safety and Security" 2024
• AZ State Bar - "Cannabis: Balancing the Scales of Justice" 2024
• AZ State Bar - "Defining and Evaluating ADR Outcomes" 2022 
• AZ State Bar - "The Best in ADR From Ten Arizona Experts" 2022
• AZ State Bar - "Enhancing Constructive Interactions and  ADR Outcomes Using Emotional Intelligence"  2022
• AAA - "Well Managed Preliminary Hearings" 2022
• AAA - "Why Courts Vacate Arbitration Awards and How to Prevent it" 2022
• AAA - "Employment Arbitration in a Gig Economy" 2022
• AAA - "Cybersecurity: A Shared Responsibility" 2020
• AAA - "Arbitrator Performance and Demeanor: Meeting Participant Expectation" 2018
• AAA - "Arbitration Fundamentals and Best Practices" 2016

• Arizona, 1986
• U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
• United States Supreme Court
• American Arbitration Association since 2016
• Best Lawyers in America - Appellate Practice, every year 2016 - 2025 
• Phoenix Magazine - Top Lawyer - Appellate Practice - 2022, 2023, 2024
• Best Lawyers, Women in the Law - 2017
• AV Rated

$450/hr