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Public Interest

Apr. 18, 2000

Settling Up

SMALL FIRMS Since 1976, San Francisco's Community Boards have been providing neighborhood mediation services that have turned conflict resolution into a "healing process."

By Meredith Alexander
        One day at a recent community mediation, an attorney and his former client sat facing a panel of facilitators, talking about malpractice.
        The atmosphere was tense: an attorney afraid of having his name blemished, a woman whose driver's license was revoked because of the lawyer's mistake - in a court. Things could have turn...

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