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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Nov. 9, 2012

Martin Quinn

Martin Quinn, a former lawyer who works as a mediator at JAMS, says he has to work a little harder than the retired judges there.


By John Roemer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - In 1996, when Martin Quinn swapped his life as a litigator for a second career as a neutral, he started with a strike against him.


He had never been a judge, unlike most of those he's come to know at work at JAMS' San Francisco office. "If you're here and you're a lawyer - as opposed to a former judge - you've got to run a little faster," Quinn, 70, said i...

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