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The Board of Directors of The Mediation Society will hold its next Dinner Meeting on Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 6:00 pm, at MacArthur Park Restaurant in San Francisco. Francis McGovern, Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, frequently appointed as a Special Master, will be the speaker for this event. Professor McGovern is renowned for his ability to integrate practical experience, abstract thinking and teaching. As a court-appointed special master or neutral expert, he has developed solutions in most of the significant mass claim litigation in the United States. The federal judiciary, many state courts and institutions around the world, including the United Nations, all seek his guidance on practical and conceptual issues in dispute resolution. Mr. McGovern’s topic for the evening will be “Strategic” Mediation. Mr. McGovern spoke to the Society in the year 2000, to rave reviews! Come to hear his new insights and theory in practice since then.n
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