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The Mediation Society will present its next Breakfast Roundtable on December 9, 2003 at Golden Gate University, Room 2310 from 7:30 am to 9:00 am. James R. Madison, a member of The Mediation Society, will speak on the “”YEAR-END SUMMARY OF THE MAJOR MEDIATION CASES.”” Mr. Madison, a lawyer who practices full time as a dispute resolution neutral-an arbitrator, mediator, special master, partnering facilitator and dispute review board member, specializing in construction, employment and other business disputes. He is a member of the Large Complex Case Panel, the Employment Panel, the Panel of International Arbitrators and the Mediator Panel of the American Arbitration Association. He has served on the Blue Ribbon Committee of Experts in Arbitration Ethics which advised the Judicial Council on the Ethics Standards for Neutral Arbitrators in Contract Arbitrations. Currently, he is chairing a subcommittee of the Arbitration Committee of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section charged with developing a nationwide standard for arbitrator disclosures. He is an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Francisco Law School, where he has taught dispute resolution and arbitration, and an instructor in trial advocacy at Stanford University Law School as well as at USF. There is no charge for this event. Members may bring guests. Coffee, juice, and pastries will be served. To RSVP, please contact The Society’s administrator, Jaye Stedman, by e-mail at js94941@attbi.com or by phone at (415) 388-7094.n
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