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The Mediation Society will hold its next dinner on May 23, 2007 at the Atrium Restaurant, 101 California Street, San Francisco, with no-host cocktails at 6:00 pm and dinner at 7:00 pm. Professor Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute will give a presentation on “”The Oxymoron of ‘Mandatory ADR’: How do you evaluate fairness?”” addressing such issues as the effectiveness of mandatory mediation and arbitration(including the USPS REDRESS System), can the dispute resolution process be fair without voluntary participation, does program design make a different to outcome or participant satisfaction? We hope you will be able to join us for what will surely be a most interesting event.n
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