Alternative Dispute Resolution
Aug. 1, 2008
Mediators Struggle to Gain a Foothold in Kern County Superior Court
Making a career of mediation is difficult even in the most litigious and metropolitan counties. But as Robert Fairman's dilemma illustrates, in small, conservative Kern County, the obstacles are magnified
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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BAKERSFIELD - As an attorney by training and an oilman by trade, Robert Fairman fittingly conducts his mediations in a building that was once home to Gulf Oil.
But Fairman - who works as a part-time mediator and full-time geologist and also heads Kern County Bar Association's ADR section - said if his m...
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