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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Jan. 28, 2012

David W. Rudy

Mother Nature helped David W. Rudy appreciate the potential of mediation. After a grueling landslide case involving 45 homes, he realized he was tired of the battles and decided he'd rather try neutral work.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Mother Nature helped David W. Rudy appreciate the potential of mediation.


In the late 1980s, he was in the thick of a landslide case involving 45 homes in Palos Verdes. The trial lasted a grueling 13 months, with Rudy jetting each week between Southern California and his home in the Bay Area.


Rudy had grown tired of the battles, and that case sealed the deal. With 20 trials in 17 years as a...

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