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Andrew Schepard: Training Has Improved – Video

Training for lawyers and judges has improved. Mediation in the US has only been around for 30 years and we are still working on how to best train people. Andrew Schepard helped develop model standards to improve professional standards.

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Andrew Schepard

Professor Andrew Schepard's special interests are in family law, especially as it affects children, civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution and developing simulation-based programs of clinical education. He is the co-director of the Hofstra University-North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System's Center for Children, Families and the Law. In 1995 Professor Schepard… MORE >

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