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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Oct. 11, 2014

Mediator uses political experience to help resolve disputess

Barbara Spector enters a room with the authority of a trial attorney who has spent her career convincing juries to side with her client. Except now her mission is to get the litigants to settle.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Barbara Spector enters a room with the authority of a trial attorney who has spent her career convincing juries to side with her client. Except now her mission is to get the litigants to settle.


"She just walks into a room and everyone steps aside," said plaintiffs' attorney Enrique Martinez. "She is a no-nonsense person. She is not touchy feely. She gets down to business. And I rea...

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