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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mar. 1, 2001

Civil Union

You can always tell when something new becomes institutionalized - people try to make rules and regulations about it.

        By Jeffrey Krivis
        
        Lawyers stand witness to a unique marriage, one in which the knot has been tied between the private, nonadversarial system of mediation and the public, adversarial, civil justice system. The civil justice system has had the mediation community gnawing at its bedside since that door was opened t...

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