Career Highlights: Served 30 years on 2nd District Court of Appeal, Los Angeles County Superior and Municipal courts. Practiced law for 10 years as a deputy state attorney general.
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Justin L. Stewart / Special to the Daily Journal
Retired appellate justice Thomas L. Willhite Jr. has been working fulltime as a private neutral for just over a year, but the approach he's employing as a mediator has already evolved.
"Early on in my mediations, I found that I went to the evaluative part far too soon," Willhite said. "When you put on your judge hat as a former judge, you are speaking with some level of authority or gravitas, but that's not necessarily the most ... (continued)
