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Arbitrator Profile

Nov. 21, 2009

Team Sport

Steven J. Stone says being a judge was like being a quarterback; as a mediator, the game is different.

By Catherine Ho

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Mediation is a sport and the goal is always to settle.

Those are the rules according to Steven J. Stone, the former appellate court justice whose days as a judge or, as he likes to call it, "quarterback" of the courtroom have evolved into a more neutral role as a mediator at JAMS.

"It's always a dialogue and almost never a monologue," Stone sai...

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