Longtime litigator Richard E. Buck spent nearly four decades working as an attorney, but he's had his eye on shifting to full-time private neutral work for quite some time.
He started doing mandatory settlement conferences in 1992, Buck said, noting that he still conducts MSCs on a pro bono basis for the Riverside County and Orange County superior courts and was recently appointed to the Central District's federal mediation panel.
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