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Feb. 16, 2024

When he speaks, people listen

Thomas Willhite Jr. leverages his judicial experience as arbitrator, mediator, referee.

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When he speaks, people listen
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Justin L. Stewart / Special to the Daily Journal

Retired appellate justice Thomas L. Willhite Jr. has been working fulltime as a private neutral for just over a year, but the approach he's employing as a mediator has already evolved.

"Early on in my mediations, I found that I went to the evaluative part far too soon," Willhite said. "When you put on your judge hat as a former judge, you are speaking with some level of authority or gravitas, but that's not necessarily the most ... (continued)

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