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Litigation

Oct. 16, 2008

Pioneering ADR Institute Closes After 28 Years

Alana Knaster, who served as president of the Mediation Institute, stands at Pebble Beach in Monterey County, where she is now deputy director of the Resource Management Agency, which regulates land use.

By Greg Katz
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - The Mediation Institute, a groundbreaking nonprofit that for nearly three decades intervened in large-scale public policy and environmental disputes - ranging from Colorado River use, to airline rules, to the redesign of Los Angeles reservoirs - has called it quits.

Created in 1980 to conduct mediation in public conflicts and train mediators to work in that area, the institute took a vote by it...

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