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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mar. 21, 2009

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An inveterate traveler, Nikki Tolt relies more on her innate people skills and flexible nature than on any orthodoxy in bringing parties together and settling the case.

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By Mindy Farabee
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A little while back, mediator Nikki Tolt found herself being asked to help wrap up a case that had been dragging on for four years.

After going up and down the appeals court and in and out of arbitration, the two parties were barely willing to sit down together. On the day everyone arrived at Tolt's office, she noticed that one...

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