Alternative Dispute Resolution
Aug. 30, 2014
Rick Sims
The retired appellate justice's home base is a cottage in the back of his house in the town of Dutch Flat, which he named the Flying Fish Mediation Center.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sometimes you have to rethink your game plan.
Rick Sims, a longtime justice on the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, made the transition from judge to neutral the way so many have: contracting with JAMS.
The problem, Sims said, was that his $550 an hour rate was too high for the Sierra Foothill communities to which he was marketing. JAMS didn't want to lower his rate, he said. ...
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