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Sep. 30, 2022

Lets lawyers lawyer

Stephen McAvoy allows attorneys to conduct mini-directs to make their case in mediations

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ADR Services, Inc.

ADR Services, Inc. neutral Stephen H. McAvoy wrote out his first novel, a 347-page murder mystery entitled "Dead Lawyers," entirely by hand.

"I didn't know how to type back then," McAvoy explained with a laugh. "I typed with two fingers."

A lifelong fan of mystery books and movies, McAvoy said it took him about three years to write the novel and then another two to revise it, but if he could go back a... (continued)

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