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California Neutrals

Oct. 20, 2011

Denise R. Madigan

Neutral, ADR Services, Inc. Century City, Los Angeles



Daily Journal: How did you prepare and train to become a neutral?

Madigan: I entered the ADR profession in the early 1980s, long before most lawyers even knew what mediation was. I initially apprenticed with one of the godfathers of public policy mediation, Lawrence Susskind, based at Harvard and MIT. There I co-mediated several complex disputes involving city taxation and budget issues and a state public-private partnership program.

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