California Neutrals
Dec. 4, 2008
Proposed New Rules Spur Debate
The Judicial Council and others are considering proposals that would require mediators to meet and pass professional eligibility requirements, like lawyers and judges, rather than letting the marketplace determine those qualifications.
Daily Journal Staff Writer Should there be standard qualifications for mediators? The question has long weighed on the field of alternative dispute resolution. Some worry that, without some standards, nothing keeps untrained and unqualified would-be mediators from hanging out their own shingle. The field includes many nonlawyers - a massage therapist and an "unemployed screenwriter" were once said to be on the Los Angeles Count...
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