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Big-ticket cases are getting low-cost solutions: employment cases are particularly common for mediation.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-JUL-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
A growing number of major law firms and their deep-pocketed clients are using a state-funded program to settle six- and seven-figure cases for free, despite the program being originally intended for disputes of less than $50,000.

Several mediators who participate in the alternative dispute resolution program say that judges will routinely refer Fortune 500 companies with $1 million-plus disputes to a mediator who volunteers his or her time.

"Those who can't afford it should get it for free. I support that," said Jeff Kichaven, the president of the Southern California Mediation Association, who resigned last month from the court's panel of volunteer mediators over frustration with the program. "But if you can afford to hire a lawyer, then you ought to be expected to hire your mediators as well."

Richard Bayer, the president of the California Dispute Resolution Council, has urged the Los Angeles Superior Court to amend the program so that only those who could not afford a mediator would...

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