ADR Services Inc. neutral Debra F. Bogaards tackled 37 jury trials during more than four decades as a litigator.
"I found it personally really rewarding, exhilarating and exhausting," Bogaards said with a chuckle. "But when I started seeing from my clients - both plaintiff and defense - that it's so emotionally taxing on them to undergo years of litigation and the risks and the emotional roller coaster of trial, I started seeing how mediation ... was... (continued)