Career Highlights: Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner (retired); adjunct instructor at the UCLA School of Law, and in the paralegal training programs of UCLA and the El Camino Community College.
Alternative Resolution Centers, LLC
Real estate, probate, products liability, personal injury
After 29 years as a court commissioner and another seven as a mediator, Douglas G. Carnahan has been struck by the fact that doing the work of a judge and that of a mediator are more different from they might seem at first blush.
"The mindset of the mediator and the skills required, both the legal skills and the personal skills, are somewhat different from being a trial judge," he said. Mediation calls for different skill... (continued)
