ADR is a big industry in the United States.Twelve hundred delegates, from all over the US but also from the United Kingdom, Rome and far flung places such as Slovenia attended the April 2005 American bar Association Conference on the “Golden State of ADR”. They were all ADR practitioners of one kind or another but primarily mediators and arbitrators with a scattering of judges, court case managers and representatives of ADR organisations.
There was good reason for them all to be there. Like most things American, it was a conference with style and flair and, most importantly , a line up of drawcard speakers.
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