California Neutrals
Dec. 4, 2008
Bringing Mediation to the Masses
The Daily Journal spotlights five programs throughout the state for their efforts in providing their communities low-cost ways to mitigate conflict without using the courts.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Long before mediation was accepted as a part of the civil justice system, community mediation programs laid the groundwork.
In 1976, the seminal Roscoe Pound Conference in Washington, D.C. gathered jurists and academics to plot out the possibilities of a "multidoor courthouse" that would incorporate mediation to increase satisfaction with the justice system. Two years later, a federal pilot progr...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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